VHD

E193841

disk image format virtual hard disk file format

VHD is a virtual hard disk file format used to store the contents of a virtual machine’s hard drive, commonly supported by Microsoft virtualization platforms.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
VHD canonical	2
Microsoft VHD Image Format Specification	1
Virtual Hard Disk	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	disk image format ⓘ virtual hard disk file format ⓘ
acquiredBy	Microsoft ⓘ
canBeUsedFor	booting Windows from a VHD file (native boot) ⓘ
developedBy	Connectix ⓘ
doesNotSupportFeature	4 KB logical sector native optimization (compared to VHDX) ⓘ built-in resiliency metadata (compared to VHDX) ⓘ
fileExtension	.vhd ⓘ
fullName	VHD self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Virtual Hard Disk
introducedInProduct	Microsoft Virtual PC ⓘ surface form: Microsoft Virtual PC 2004
maximumSize	2040 GB (approximate 2 TB limit) ⓘ
mountableBy	Disk Management (Windows) ⓘ Hyper-V ⓘ surface form: Hyper-V Manager PowerShell ⓘ surface form: PowerShell storage cmdlets diskpart ⓘ
standardizedBy	VHD self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Microsoft VHD Image Format Specification
succeededBy	VHDX ⓘ
supportedBy	Windows 10 ⓘ Windows 11 ⓘ Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows 8.1 ⓘ Windows Server 2008 ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2012 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2016 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2019 Windows Server ⓘ surface form: Windows Server 2022
supportsDiskType	differencing disk ⓘ dynamically expanding disk ⓘ fixed-size disk ⓘ
supportsFeature	sector-level virtualization ⓘ snapshot differencing disks ⓘ
supportsFileSystem	FAT32 ⓘ NTFS ⓘ ReFS (when host supports it) ⓘ exFAT ⓘ
supportsPartitionStyle	GPT (with limitations vs VHDX) ⓘ MBR ⓘ
supportsUseCase	backup and restore ⓘ disk cloning ⓘ multi-boot environments ⓘ native boot in Windows ⓘ system image storage ⓘ virtual machine hard disk storage ⓘ
usedBy	Azure (legacy support) ⓘ Hyper-V ⓘ Microsoft Virtual PC ⓘ Microsoft Virtual Server ⓘ Microsoft Virtual PC ⓘ surface form: Windows Virtual PC

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hyper-V → supportsStorageFormat → VHD ⓘ

VHD → fullName → VHD self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Virtual Hard Disk

VHD → standardizedBy → VHD self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Microsoft VHD Image Format Specification

VMDK → competesWith → VHD ⓘ