Lingering or phantom Hyper-V checkpoints or snapshots Once in a while the merging of checkpoints, previously known as snapshots, in Hyper-V goes south. An example of this is when checkpoints are not cleaned up and the most recent avhdx or … Continue reading
Introduction With Windows Server 2016 came the hope and promise of improved backups for Hyper-V environments. And indeed Microsoft delivered on that and has given us faster, more scalable and more reliable backups. With VHD sets also came the promise … Continue reading
Introduction With Windows Server 2016 we also get a new version of ReFS, which I’ll designate aptly as ReFS vNext. It offers a few new abstractions that allow applications and virtualization to control how files are created, copied and moved. … Continue reading
By now a lot of you will have heard that in Windows Server 2016 virtual machines have a new configuration file format. The new configuration files use the .VMCX file extension for virtual machine configuration data and the .VMRS file … Continue reading