well, in my case.... the gui is not showing any progress. the snapshots are gone from the gui, yet the avhdx files remain on the disk itself. haven't been able to locate a powershell command to view the status of the merge.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of David Lum [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 2:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Hyper v 2012, deleted tree of snapshots, but AVHDX files remain The Hyper-V GUI also shows progress of the merging. I am just glad we can leave the VM’s up like ESX has been able to do, I hated having to power off to merge snapshots! It was a huge deterrent to going snapshot crazy (which can be good and bad…) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Hyper v 2012, deleted tree of snapshots, but AVHDX files remain 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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Rink Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 2:39 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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
