Thanks for asking Aaron :) We don't use this feature today but are planning on PoC'ing it for the server team. Our server team wanted to use a generalized VHDX associated with a VMM template to provision virtual servers to reduce the time it takes to provision a server. As opposed to running an entire deployment task sequence on a bare-metal VM. They were thinking about using the ConfigMgr OSD process we have in place today in order to deploy to a bare-metal VM, manually generalize, and add the VHDX to the template. We already define our server OS deployment process, and deploy and capture processes in task sequences to maintain consistency. So, I was suggesting to the server team that we explore ConfigMgr's VHD-creation feature and VMM integration in order to deliver a generalized VHD each time the deployment process is revised or there are newly approved updates (using offline servicing...AKA DISM offline... in VMM/CM for updates is not 100% clean for all server OS' we support). The server team's standard for the virtual hard disk's format for Hyper-V is VHDX. The only way we can use this capability today is by having configmgr generate the VHD, upload to VMM, then run a conversion process to make it a VHDX. We want it to be a VHDX from the get-go as we don't understand if there are any gotchas/risks for converting it and to simplify the process. I envision they'll want to use the generalized VHDX for the same purpose in Azure on-prem/cloud as well once the infrastructure is in place for us. It would be great to have VHDX support and have integration into any Microsoft Cloud/Virtual Host management platform supported such as VMM, WAP/Azure Stack, and Azure.
-Stephen From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 VHDX support for Task Sequences? Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 23:24:23 +0000 Nope, currently VHD only. DCR is already there, so I duped out yours (but Connect should pass through the status from the original). Currently no work scheduled on the VHD feature. For my curiosity, can you expand upon how you use this feature (or rather how you want to use it)? Aaron From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Leuthold Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 7:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 VHDX support for Task Sequences? Bump :) -Stephen On May 28, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Stephen Leuthold <[email protected]> wrote: Sorry if this has already been asked. According to blogs and the documentation I only see references to VHD format. However, our standard for Hyper-V virtual hard disks is the VHDX format. Does anyone know if VHDX's are currently supported or if VHDX format will be supported in any of the coming updates? Thank you, Stephen
