I have installed windows server 2012 r2 with exchange 2010 on it on virtual machine (Hyper-V) I need to move VHD to physical drive. I know that windows can boot VHD images, but i need to move OS exactly to physical drive, not using VHD. Is it possilbe? Thx for all answers Answer Acronis Backup … Read more
I have a VHDX file (representing a non-boot ext4 fs) that I need to run some forensics on. I have a working CentOS7 HyperV VM on a Win2012R2 host. I want to attach the VHDX to the CentOS7 VM, which I know how to do. What I don’t know how to do exactly is to … Read more
I can’t seem to find any info about this. What is a HyperV differential AVHDX file format internally like, for the purpose of forensic recovery? That is: Is it just straight blocks, like dd would output, but with point-in-time metadata in between or in a header? Or is the main data transcoded in some way? … Read more
So I have a server with Hyper-V and a Drive C: (OS) and D. Drive D stores all of the VHDs that I run. Drive C shows up as Disk 0, and D as Disk 1 under Disk Management respectively. Now Drive D gets low on space because the VHDs got bigger, and I need … Read more
We have our own Linux based distribution for which we created a .vhd file from .iso using VirtualBox. We uploaded the .vhd to Azure following the instructions given here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-create-upload-vhd/ Then, we created a VM using this image, but when trying to start the VM, it fails. It gives the following error: ‘The server encountered … Read more
I have a Windows Cluster made up of two nodes connected via SAS to a storage array. I have two virtual machines configured with their hard disks (vhdx) on the shared storage. They are up and running correctly. Now I need to build a “shared volume” between these two vm, that is a disk with … Read more
OK, I’m about to drive down to Mexico and bust this server with a hammer. Basically, the RAID 5 array is hosed, so we need to copy everything off it so we can rebuild the array. I have everything copied off the drive so far, EXCEPT for the .vhd for the file server. It’s a … Read more
Currently using Server 2008 R2, and I attempted to create and attach a 1.5 TB VHD on a USB 2.0 drive. I see the VHD file in the drive, but cannot attach it in Disk Management. I keep receiving an error message: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. As this is a new … Read more
I have built a customised Debian (Jessie/8) VHD which I am trying to get running on Azure. According to my research (and the MS docs I’ve read) it meets the Azure Linux VHD requirements. I have tried to err on the side of caution to reduce or eliminate possible causes of issue. Here’s some general … Read more
I am running a VM using Azure and the VM uses a default OS Disk (30 GB), mounted on /dev/sda1. I can also see another /dev/sdb1 which I came to know is a temp disk (130 GB) auto-provided by VM. The first OS disk is mapped to one VHD resource “Storage account (classic)” which I … Read more
