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dynamic disk

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dynamic disk
A Windows 2000 feature that allows a single disk reference to span more than one physical disk volume. It also allows the disk to be resized without rebooting (resized "dynamically"). When formatted as a dynamic disk, the volume does not contain partitions. A regular disk partition is called a "basic" disk.


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Fragmentation must also be watched if your VMs are configured with the dynamic disk option, which allows the virtual machine to grow the size of its storage as necessary.
features include: * Direct output of VMJ3K and VHD file formats * Event-driven backups triggered by disk space changes * Support for dynamic disks * Wake on LAN * VMware Consolidated Backup * 256-bit archive encryption www.
According to the company, System Commander 8 features the ability to boot CDs, support for Windows 2003 and Longhorn and the ability to boot from dynamic disks.
 
 
 
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