Tag: vhd
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When Vendors Refuse to Yield
Recently, I worked closely with a specific vendor of client and server side software for multi-location point of sale systems. As the project went on, I became annoyed with the nature of the software because it was not packaged in an installation file or anything of that nature. To “install” it, the vendor copied the […]
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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 […]