Hyper-V generally supports three types of virtual hard disk files: fixed, dynamic and differential. No type is best -- each type is designed to fill a specific role or purpose for the associated VM.

Hyper-V VHD Set, introduced in Windows Server 2016, is a virtual disk model you can use as a shared disk for guest clusters and clustering between VMs. Hyper-V VHD Set supports all standard features, ...

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