The following tip is excerpted from my book Training Guide: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 from Microsoft Press:
http://www.wservernews.com/go/1399451806169
Do not compact, convert, expand, shrink, or merge a virtual hard disk when any of the following conditions apply:
- The disk is associated with a virtual machine that has snapshots.
- The disk is associated with a virtual machine that has replication enabled.
- The disk is associated with a chain of differencing disks.
If you perform any of these actions under such conditions, data loss or corruption might occur.
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Mitch Tulloch is a twelve-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and a widely recognized expert on Windows Server and cloud computing technologies. Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews. For more information about him see http://www.mtit.com.
