There's a saying, "What you can do and what you should do are two different things." This saying rings true for many virtual environments – in my travels supporting customers, I've seen some strange ...

I'm upgrading my storage from 2x 3TB drives to 2x 6TB drives. The old and new setups use Windows 7 mirrored volumes (software RAID 5) which in turn requires that I use Windows dynamic disks. Macrium ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...

We had a dynamic disk cause us problems this week after having been extended. I contacted IBM support to make sure we were doing the SAN side properly and support referenced past knowledge regarding ...

Which virtual disk format (fixed, dynamic or pass-through) is the right choice for your environment? We've got answers and some great maintenance tips. Choosing the right format for the right scenario ...