Virtual disk files are locked containers that shield the items inside from online or local security defenses. The trick can help adversaries deliver malware invisibly to a target's computer.

Storage DRS (distributed resource scheduler) allows for aggregate storage management within a datastore cluster. When enabled, Storage DRS can give you recommendations for VM disk placement in an ...

For all the capabilities that virtual machine disk files bring to the IT table, there is one issue that stands out to me that sometimes makes my life difficult - virtual hard disk format compatibility ...

Like some competing hypervisors, vSphere allows virtual hard disks to be encrypted. One of the most important things to understand about encryption in vSphere 6.5 is that virtual disk encryption and ...

Russian-speaking hackers behind Zebrocy malware have changed their technique for delivering malware to high-profile victims and started to pack the threats in Virtual Hard Drives (VHD) to avoid ...

Without any sort of major fuss or media blitz, VMware released a 1.0 version of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The VMware VDDK is an open API and SDK that enables VMware customers and ...

VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other companies. By default, Oracle Corporation's ...

Microsoft introduced Hyper-V's passthrough disk feature quite some time ago, and to be perfectly honest with you, it's one of those features that I have never used in a production environment. Sure, I ...

So, after digging around and around, I discovered that Workstation 6.5 has a maximum virtual disk size of ~1TB. Did they increase this at all in 7? It's not really a touted feature, but it wasn't very ...

So I have this R630 that I'm trying to build out, and it's got the aforementioned PERC controller, nothing unusual. I can create and destroy virtual drives all day long, no issues, and I can even run ...