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How to Choose the Correct Azure VM Disk Tier

Aidan explains the differences between the four Azure virtual hard disk tiers that you can deploy for Azure virtual machines.

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Digging Into Azure VM Disk Performance Features

Aidan breaks down some Azure features that allow you to obtain better disk performance with virtual machines.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — June 2018

We’re entering the laid-back days of Summer. There isn’t much Azure IaaS news, but we’re after quality, not quantity.  June was a good news month for those of us using Microsoft Azure.

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Single Data Disks — Up To 4TB With Azure Virtual Machines

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s recent preview of disks that are up to 4TB in size in Azure and explains the benefits of using.

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Azure Storage Announcements at Build

Learn about several infrastructure-related feature enhancements for Azure Storage that Microsoft announced at the recent Build conference.

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Windows Server 2016 Feature: ReFS Accelerated VHDX Operations

Windows Server 2016 improves the speed of VHD and VHDX operations. Aidan Finn show the results using basic 1 GbE iSCSI storage.

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Choosing Hyper-V Storage: Virtual Hard Disks

Looking at Hyper-V storage options? Discover the pros and cons of business friendly, cloud-enabled, virtual hard disks.

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How to Convert a VHD File into VHDX

Stumped as to how to convert a Hyper-V VHD file into VHDX format? Learn how using both Hyper-V Manager and PowerShell.

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Windows 8 Client Hyper-V : Create a Virtual Machine Based on an Exisiting VHD File

It’s all Hyper-V, all the time! In part four of this series, Jeff Hicks shows you how to create a new virtual machine based on an existing VHD file.

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Converting VMware VMDK Files to Microsoft’s VHD Format and VHD to VMDK

There are two popular and mutually incompatible virtual disk file formats in common use today: VMware’s VMDK format and Microsoft’s VHD format. In order to attach a VHD disk to a VMware virtual machine, or vice-versa, you have to convert it first. This guide by virtualization and storage expert Tom Finnis explains how to use Starwind’s V2V Converter utility to do just that, with a detailed example explaining how to convert a VMDK virtual disk to VHD format and then mount it in a Windows system in order to edit the files it contains.

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