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Before You Begin
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Explains the purpose of the wizard. You can create a virtual
hard disk without working through the pages of the wizard. If you
click Finish on this page, the wizard creates a dynamically
expanding virtual hard disk with a storage capacity of 127 GB.
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Choose Disk Type
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- Dynamically expanding virtual hard disks
provide storage capacity as needed to store data. The size of the
.vhd file is small when the disk is created and grows as data is
added to the disk. The size of the .vhd file does not shrink
automatically when data is deleted from the virtual hard disk.
However, you can compact the disk to decrease the file size after
data is deleted by using the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard.
- Fixed virtual hard disks provide storage
capacity by using a .vhd file that is the size specified for the
virtual hard disk when the disk is created. The size of the .vhd
file remains 'fixed' regardless of the amount of data stored.
However, you can use the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard to increase
the size of the virtual hard disk, which increases the size of the
.vhd file.
- Differencing virtual hard disks provide
storage to enable you to make changes to a parent virtual hard disk
without altering that disk. The size of the .vhd file for a
differencing disk grows as changes are stored to the disk.
For more information about editing virtual hard disks, see
Edit Virtual
Hard Disk Wizard.
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Specify Name and Location
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Provide a name and location for the new virtual hard disk. If
you plan to cluster the virtual machine that will use the virtual
hard disk, specify a shared location.
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Important |
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Do not create the virtual hard disk in a folder that is marked
for encryption. Hyper-V does not support the use of storage media
if Encrypting File System (EFS) has been used to encrypt the .vhd
file. However, you can use files stored on a volume that uses
Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption.
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Configure Disk
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Options for configuring the disk differ depending on the type of
disk you select.
- For fixed and dynamically expanding virtual
hard disks, you can specify a size or copy the contents of an
available physical disk.
- For a differencing disk, you must specify the
location of the disk you want to use as the parent virtual hard
disk.
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Completing the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard
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Displays the configuration details you selected for the virtual
hard disk.
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