Thursday 9 May 2013

Hyper-V Using Differencing Disks

One way to optimize disk space and reduce the number of times that you have to install and update a released operating system is to create parent child configurations using differencing disks in Hyper-V.

For example, if you need to install a test lab that will employ three Windows Server 2008 R2 installations: one configured as a domain controller, another configured as an Exchange Server, and a third configured as a SQL Server, you could use a Parent-Child Differencing disk configuration to save the time of installing and updating the Windows Server 2008 R2 installation for all three of those virtual machines.

TechNet: Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) Parent-Child Configuration Using Differencing Disks

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