In my experience, Windows Storage Spaces tends to be reliable and typically behaves in a predictable manner. On a couple of occasions, however, I have encountered problems related to detached virtual ...

Are you getting a virtual disk service error when trying to run DiskPart? This can be a very frustrating issue, but luckily it is easy to fix. In this article, I will ...

For ESXi installations, command-line options are available for virtualization administrators. For licensed installations with vCenter, the VI Toolkit is a very powerful interface to manage the hosts.

Storage DRS (distributed resource scheduler) allows for aggregate storage management within a datastore cluster. When enabled, Storage DRS can give you recommendations for VM disk placement in an ...

For all the capabilities that virtual machine disk files bring to the IT table, there is one issue that stands out to me that sometimes makes my life difficult - virtual hard disk format compatibility ...

Without any sort of major fuss or media blitz, VMware released a 1.0 version of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The VMware VDDK is an open API and SDK that enables VMware customers and ...

• Clusters of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) are usefulto achieve application-level high availability. Clustering involves using shared storage, which provides fault tolerance and accessibility to ...

If you see Disk Management could not start Virtual Disk Service & Disk Management is stuck at or not connecting to VDS, then this post will be able to help you. Disk management is an essential tool ...

GottaBeMobile reader, Taxman, sent a few questions about virtualization. He writes, “Can you tell me more about how virtual box compares to the commercial products (VMWare and Parallels) on a Mac?

Before we talk about the fixes to resolve this problem, let’s see the possible causes of this error. You will receive this error message if: There are some ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...