| Subject | German | English |
| comp., MS | Dienst für virtuelle Datenträger | Virtual Disk Service (A set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. VDS uses two sets of providers to manage storage devices. The built-in VDS software providers enable the management of disks and volumes at the operating system level. The VDS hardware providers enable the management of disk storage subsystems and are supplied by the hardware vendor) |
| comp., MS | Virtueller Datenträger | virtual disk (A non-physical disk exposed to the user as if it were a real disk. The disk may be backed by either a file or memory) |
| comp., MS | virtueller Datenträger | virtual disk (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |