I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

We implemented a vSphere at the beginning of the year using a VNXe3100 as the storage device presented to the servers. The initial plan was to get it up and running and migrate some of the lower end ...

I have been using Hyper-V since it was first released with Windows Server 2008. As far as I can remember, during that time I have never run into a situation in which a virtual machine completely ran ...

Recently, I had a hard disk failure in one of my production servers. That particular server uses Windows Storage Spaces to combine four physical disks into a single parity virtual disk. The process of ...

If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

In this post, we will see how to shrink and compact hard disks in Hyper-V. This allows you to make room for the hard disks if they are too big for your physical computer. Since Hyper-V hard disks are ...