Tag: free
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How to Virtualize a Physical Server Using Disk2vhd
A simple solution to converting an existing physical server into a vhd file is to use the free utility from Microsoft called Disk2vhd. This is useful for creating backups of a whole machine or only certain volumes. The resulting vhd file can be imported into a Hyper-V instance. One vhd file will be created for…
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Extend Volume – Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008 introduced some great tools to help us with extending volumes and other tricky things that were not offered in Windows Server 2003. So what if you still use Server 2003? I ran into a situation recently where I had virtualized a server that had two physical hard disks of 80 GB each…