It merges them in the background. When the merge is complete, the files will be removed.
There is a cmdlet that will give you status of this process, but I can't think of the name at the moment (there are 2,700+ new cmdlets in server 2012 - wow!). From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Rink Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Hyper v 2012, deleted tree of snapshots, but AVHDX files remain So one of my customers has a 2012 Hyper V server. One of the VMs running on it had 3 snapshots recently taken, all 3 were not needed, so the top-most snapshot was selected and then the entire subtree of snapshots was deleted. The Hyper-V host no longer shows any snapshots for that VM. However, looking at the physical location where the VHDX file is stored, there is still 3 AVHDX files (with one of them continuing to grow). How long does it take Hyper V to delete these from the disk? The server is still UP... but i read with 2012, that's fine... thoughts on why these files are leftover? Hyper V did not give any indication that deletion of the snapshots was unsuccessful. Thanks JR
