Virtual disk and virtual drive are software components that emulate an actual disk storage device. Virtual disks and virtual drives are common components...
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a virtual disk image of optical media or a hard disk drive is typically done to make the content available to one or more virtual machines. Virtual machines...
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virtual hard disks. VirtualBox emulates IDE (PIIX4 and ICH6 controllers), SCSI, SATA (ICH8M controller), and SAS controllers, to which hard drives can be attached...
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that emulates a disk drive such as a hard disk drive or optical disk drive (see comparison of disc image software) Data Data virtualization: the presentation...
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VHD (file format) (redirect from Virtual Hard Disk)
VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDX are file formats representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical...
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name was Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. New features in R2 SP1 include Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, SMP (but...
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more (costly) hardware resources such as CPUs, and hard drives. Although hardware is consolidated in virtual environments, typically OSs are not. Instead...
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typically use special hardware and software along with disk drives in order to provide very fast and reliable storage for computing and data processing. Storage...
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physical location on the hard drive, as is the case with traditional folders, but can be in any location. In fact, files in a virtual folder do not even need...
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snapshot. The undo disk file (.vud) incrementally stores changes made by the virtual machine compared to the main Virtual hard disk drive (VHD) image, which...
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if the memory were a disk drive (secondary storage). RAM drives provide high-performance temporary storage for demanding tasks and protect non-volatile...
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VMDK (redirect from Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK))
VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware...
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include logical disk, minidisk, portions, pseudo-disk, section, slice and virtual drive. One of the earliest such segmentation of a disk drive was IBM's 1966...
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[citation needed] Virtual machines frequently use virtual disks for their storage; in a very simple example, a 10-gigabyte hard disk drive is simulated with...
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Memory paging (redirect from Swap disk)
random-access memory) and secondary storage is called "disk" (a shorthand for hard disk drive, drum memory or solid-state drive, etc.), but as with many...
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Disk cloning is the process of duplicating all data on a digital storage drive, such as a hard disk or solid state drive, using hardware or software techniques...
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Page table (category Virtual memory)
moved (paged out) to secondary storage, typically to a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD). When a process requests access to data in its memory...
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17 NES, SNES, N64, Sega Mega Drive and TurboGrafx titles were available at launch on the Virtual Console in Europe and 11 titles for the Oceanic region...
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compressed to auxiliary storage such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD). In both cases the virtual memory range, whose contents has been compressed...
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Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash...
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File system (redirect from Disk file systems)
security, size and more. Files systems have been developed for many types of storage devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), magnetic...
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storage virtualization, as servers connected to storage systems such as NAS or SAN in addition to, or instead of, on-board hard disk drives. Server virtualization...
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VMware Workstation (category Virtualization software)
and sharing physical disk drives and USB devices with a virtual machine. It can simulate disk drives; an ISO image file can be mounted as a virtual optical...
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RAID (redirect from Disk duplexing)
inexpensive disks" or "redundant array of independent disks") is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components...
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ZumoDrive virtual disk that was then synced to the web and the users' other computers and hand-held devices. Files in the ZumoDrive virtual disk could...
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Page (computer memory) (redirect from Virtual Page)
operating system. A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as a hard disk drive, is referred to as paging or swapping. Computer memory...
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A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device...
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A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information...
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real machine". System virtual machine advantages: Multiple OS environments can co-exist on the same primary hard drive, with a virtual partition that allows...
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QEMU (category Free virtualization software)
qed, .qcow, .cow) VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image (.vdi) Virtual PC Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd) Virtual VFAT VMware Virtual Machine Disk (.vmdk) Raw images...
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