What Does Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk (VHDX) Mean?

A Hyper V virtual hard disk (VHDX) is a disk image file format used to create a virtual hard disk (VHD) within Windows Server 2012-based virtualization environments.

VHDX enables creating and provisioning virtual/logical disk storage space to virtual machines. It is an enhancement to the previously used VHD file format in Windows Server 2008.

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