Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

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Figure 4.30 Creating a VHD Set


Figure 4.31 Adding a VHD Set to a VM


The VHD Set will be seen as shared storage in the same way as the Windows Server
2012 R2 style Shared VHDX, except the previously three mentioned restrictions that
limited the use of Shared VHDX will be removed. If you upgrade Windows Server
2012 R2 hosts to Windows Server 2016, there is no automatic conversion from shared
VHDX to VHD Sets, and the old restrictions will still apply. You need to convert the
shared VHDX manually to a VHD Set to enable the support for dynamic resize, Hyper-
V Replica, and host-level backup. The process to convert this is as follows:


1 . Turn    off the VMs that    are connected   to  the Shared  VHDX.
2 . Remove the shared VHDX from the VMs by using Remove-VMHardDiskDrive or
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