Two-Node Hyper-V Failover Cluster Part 5 of 15: Add 500GB VHDX to the iSCSI VM
The iSCSI VM has its OS disk (40 GB) but nothing to share yet. This part adds a 500 GB Fixed VHDX as the storage pool, attaches it to the…
Tag: VHDX
Hyper-V: Convert a VHD to VHDX (Detach First, Then Edit Disk)
You have a Hyper-V VM with a legacy VHD-format disk. Maybe it migrated from an old Server 2008 R2 host, maybe someone created it manually before VHDX became the default…
Hyper-V Snapshots Part 2: Merging the AVHDX Chain Back Into the Parent VHDX
Part 1 covered creating, applying, and managing snapshots. This post is the consolidation half — what happens when you delete a snapshot and the differencing-disk overlay has to be merged…
Flip a Hyper-V VHDX Between Pre-Allocated and On-Demand: GUI and PowerShell
VHDX disks come in two allocation modes. Pre-allocated reserves the full configured size on the host filesystem at creation time; on-demand allocates space as the guest writes. Each has a…
Build a Hyper-V Golden Image: Reference VM, Sysprep, and Cloning at Scale
Post 139 covered creating a Win11 VM from scratch via PowerShell. Doing that for one VM is fine; doing it for ten is tedious; doing it for a hundred is…