Hyper-V: VHD Shell Extensions, updated release

October 11, 2009
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I just posted a batch file wrapper around VHD Shell Extensions to find stale VHDs on a Hyper-V Server. However, because of VHDShellExt.vbs design, it will always try to find if the given VHD is associated with a VM on the local Hyper-V machine. One problem with this design is, you need to use the script on all the Hyper-V [...]

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Hyper-V: finding stale VHDs

October 11, 2009
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I use Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for running many virtual machines for different purposes. For all of these virtual machines, I either create new VHDs and re-use the existing ones. Here is the problem. I don’t have SCVMM or any similar management software to maintain the VHD library. But I need to keep track of [...]

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