Odd. But it won't show any progress unless the VM is turned off. Once its turned off, I can see it migrating the AVHDX files into the main file.... But if I turn the VM back on, it'll stop migrating. I thought this was a feature added to HyperV 2012... hrm.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Evans Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Hyper v 2012, deleted tree of snapshots, but AVHDX files remain The progress is shown way to the right. Usually I have to scroll to see it. ...Tim From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Rink Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 12:39 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Hyper v 2012, deleted tree of snapshots, but AVHDX files remain 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]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]] on behalf of David Lum [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 2:22 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 11:45 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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 ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com> Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3209/6548 - Release Date: 08/03/13
