Let's assume a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM running on vSphere. The VM is a file server and needs to present around 10TB usable storage. In an ideal world Windows would just see a 10TB pool since there ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...

Like physical servers, you may occasionally find that your Hyper-V virtual machines run low on disk space and need to be provided with extra storage. Assuming that you have physical disk space ...

I have some PCIe SSD cards installed in a WS 2106 server, but once I make them dynamic disks (prior to putting them in RAID 1), they can no longer perform a TRIM operations (i.e Optimize, or defrag L.

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...