In this video, learn how to mount VHD and VHDX files using Server Manager, so you can see the contents of a virtual machine. This can help you when troubleshooting VMs when they won't properly start.
- [Instructor] Sometimes when we have problems starting … a virtual machine, we can fix the problem by mounting … it as a drive in Windows Explorer. … We can also use this for a hopelessly corrupted virtual … machine where we need to recover files. … Let's say in this particular case, … this virtual machine is unbootable … or we want to see the files in Windows Explorer. … So what we do is we right click … and go to settings and then we go … to where it says hard drive to find the VHDX file … and we can see it's in our E drive in this path. … So if we go to that path, we can see there is our VHDX file. … We simply right click on it and choose mount … and we can see down at the bottom … that a new drive has popped up and it says local disk F. … So if you click on that, now we see the expanded VHDX file … in our Windows Explorer mounted as the F drive. … So from here we can go ahead and double click on, … say the Windows folder, … we can go to any of the other folders … and we can make any changes we may need. …
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Released
3/13/2019- Working with the Computer Management interface
- Formatting disks and editing files from the command line
- Configuring advanced file services
- Using PowerShell to create VHD and VHDX files
- Implementing Storage Replica
- Configuring tiered storage
- Data deduplication
- Storage on Hyper-V
- Creating a RAID mirror in Storage Spaces Direct
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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1. Introduction to File and Storage Services in Server 2019
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Command-line disk formatting5m 34s
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Command-line file utilities5m 55s
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Volumes and disks4m 22s
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2. Configure Advanced File Services
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Configure file sharing6m 31s
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3. Implement Storage Features
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Mount VHDX files in Explorer2m 23s
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Implement Storage Replica6m 38s
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4. Configure and Optimize Storage
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Implementing iSNS5m 23s
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Configure tiered storage5m 43s
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Configure MPIO2m 57s
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5. Additional Storage Roles
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Data deduplication intro1m 36s
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Practical deduplication4m 6s
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Storage on Hyper-V4m 41s
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6. Other Storage Options
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Configure storage pools3m 45s
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Conclusion
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Next steps40s
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