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How to preserve mount points when moving Linux VMs to Azure?

I'm currently working on a project where Azure Site Recovery will be used as a DR solution for a fully virtualized datacenter based on Hyper-V and managed by SCVMM. The datacenter contains several Linux VMs, and most of them have several virtual…
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fio on virtual disk created with dd to stress disk

I am trying to create a script for my coworkers to use in the field that will stress the internal disks to a Linux server. I plan to put some logic in for finding the /dev/sd's available and such. But I wanted to put in a write test. I am aware that…
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Removing snapshot after removing guest hard disc

I have a server with ESXi 5.5 installed. I recently wanted to add a new hard disk to one of the guests. After adding the virtual disk to it, I took a snapshot just to be sure that nothing would go wrong (which unfortunately did). After taking the…
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Exchange 2010 VHD Corrupted But Is Not

I am experiencing a strange problem with my Exchange 2010 server. The virtual disk holding all Exchange databases on the Exchange server is acting like it is corrupted. If I run chkdsk E: /F is says the file system is RAW, but when I take down the…
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How can I boot a vm on Hyper-V 2012 when it has a virtual hard-drive missing?

We have a Hyper-V 2012 server with 8 VM's on. We have attached extra virtual hard-drives to each of the computers to store backups on. These drives are stored on a NAS. After a power failure, we tried to boot the VM's and found that they couldn't be…
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What is the maximum virtual disk size in KVM

We have a server with 12 TB hard disk. I am planning to install KVM. The question is how much maximum disk space one vm can use? I need 5 TB vm disk. is it possible?
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Problems with RAID1 array being recognised

I have put a new RAID card (UCS-51) into my Dell Precision T5400. I have connected this to 2 x 1TB SATA disks. I have configured a mirror array in the RAID bios. The array shows when I boot computer up. Sadly every OS I try and install (Win7 & ESXi)…
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Is there a tool that take a set of VHD files, and that produce a base disk + differentiating disks?

On my Hyper-V R2 virtual platform, I'm often using differentiating disks to preserve disk space. Basically, I have this hierarchy of differentiating disk : OS 1.vhd Dev platform.vhd User 1 dev computer.vhd User 2 dev computer.vhd Production…
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Solaris disk types: Ramdisk, hard disk, SVM mirror volume.. Are there any others?

I am particularly interested if there are any network mounted disk types that can be used in ZFS.
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Background initialization of a Virtual Disk (raid 10), can you power off completely and resume days later?

Upon setting up a new Dell Poweredge system with RAID 10, I see in System Setup --> Virtual Disk Management the Virtual Disk I created is performing a background initialization. From my understanding, this is setting up the various parity/mirror…
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Completely remove virtual disks with diskpart (list volume still shows them)

I'm creating a lot of differencing disks for my project and deleting them after some time. I use "detach vdisk" command, they disappear from disk management but they are not completely removed... When i use "list vdisk" command there is a huge list…
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