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How do virtual disk files differ among the hypervisors?

April 26, 2017differ disk files hypervisors virtual

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How do virtual disk files differ among the hypervisors?

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VMware uses a proprietary Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) format that it developed, and XenServer and Hyper-V use a proprietary Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. These formats are completely different from each other and cannot be used directly with another hypervisor. When performing a virtual machine migration, there are a number of tools and utilities that will convert virtual disks from one hypervisor format to another.