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Merging VHDS checkpoint files that won't merge
Hyper-V VM stuck in endless loop trying to merge deleted snapshot with insufficient disk spaceHyper-V encountered an error while configuring network on New Virtual Machine, because the object was not foundHow to Shrink large Hyper-V VMHyper-V VHDx Compacting & SIzing Issue - No Minimum Size, Unable to ShrinkIs it possible to create a differencing disk from Hyper-V checkpointHyper-V 2016 with physical RAID Disk for Files: pass through or discrete device assignment or what?server 2016 active directory and hyper-v same serverUbuntu Linux - Shared VHDXHave Windows 2016 Scale Out File Server where CSV doesn't take VHD expandWindows Server 2016: Hyper-V VM boot from and directly use SSD
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I have a VHDS file that I took a checkpoint of, but I can't merge the checkpoint file. I have tried the GUI (Hyper-V Manager->Edit Disk) and Powershell (Merge-VHD), to no avail. It gives the error "If the merge succeeds, the system will still be unable to delete the file".
This is on a Server 2016 Hyper-V failover cluster, and the VHDS is shared between a Server 2016 failover cluster file server role. This VHDS has a capacity of 20TB and is currently around 10TB, with a 500GB checkpoint file.
I had this same issue with a couple of smaller VHDS files. I ended up converting the main avhdx file to a VHDX file, then created a new VHDS file and selected the option to copy the contents of the new VHDX file. This file is so large I'm afraid it would take a good 24 hours to do the conversion and new VHDS file. I would prefer to not have that kind of downtime.
Does anyone know of a better way to accomplish this without these two lengthy steps? I've read that the avhdx is very similar to a regular VHDX, would it be risky (in terms of data corruption) to just rename that file to a VHDX and create a new VHDS from that VHDX?
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I have a VHDS file that I took a checkpoint of, but I can't merge the checkpoint file. I have tried the GUI (Hyper-V Manager->Edit Disk) and Powershell (Merge-VHD), to no avail. It gives the error "If the merge succeeds, the system will still be unable to delete the file".
This is on a Server 2016 Hyper-V failover cluster, and the VHDS is shared between a Server 2016 failover cluster file server role. This VHDS has a capacity of 20TB and is currently around 10TB, with a 500GB checkpoint file.
I had this same issue with a couple of smaller VHDS files. I ended up converting the main avhdx file to a VHDX file, then created a new VHDS file and selected the option to copy the contents of the new VHDX file. This file is so large I'm afraid it would take a good 24 hours to do the conversion and new VHDS file. I would prefer to not have that kind of downtime.
Does anyone know of a better way to accomplish this without these two lengthy steps? I've read that the avhdx is very similar to a regular VHDX, would it be risky (in terms of data corruption) to just rename that file to a VHDX and create a new VHDS from that VHDX?
hyper-v windows-server-2016
asked May 17 at 17:54
dbenz04dbenz04
111
add a comment |
I have a VHDS file that I took a checkpoint of, but I can't merge the checkpoint file. I have tried the GUI (Hyper-V Manager->Edit Disk) and Powershell (Merge-VHD), to no avail. It gives the error "If the merge succeeds, the system will still be unable to delete the file".
This is on a Server 2016 Hyper-V failover cluster, and the VHDS is shared between a Server 2016 failover cluster file server role. This VHDS has a capacity of 20TB and is currently around 10TB, with a 500GB checkpoint file.
I had this same issue with a couple of smaller VHDS files. I ended up converting the main avhdx file to a VHDX file, then created a new VHDS file and selected the option to copy the contents of the new VHDX file. This file is so large I'm afraid it would take a good 24 hours to do the conversion and new VHDS file. I would prefer to not have that kind of downtime.
Does anyone know of a better way to accomplish this without these two lengthy steps? I've read that the avhdx is very similar to a regular VHDX, would it be risky (in terms of data corruption) to just rename that file to a VHDX and create a new VHDS from that VHDX?
hyper-v windows-server-2016
asked May 17 at 17:54
dbenz04dbenz04
111
I have a VHDS file that I took a checkpoint of, but I can't merge the checkpoint file. I have tried the GUI (Hyper-V Manager->Edit Disk) and Powershell (Merge-VHD), to no avail. It gives the error "If the merge succeeds, the system will still be unable to delete the file".
This is on a Server 2016 Hyper-V failover cluster, and the VHDS is shared between a Server 2016 failover cluster file server role. This VHDS has a capacity of 20TB and is currently around 10TB, with a 500GB checkpoint file.
I had this same issue with a couple of smaller VHDS files. I ended up converting the main avhdx file to a VHDX file, then created a new VHDS file and selected the option to copy the contents of the new VHDX file. This file is so large I'm afraid it would take a good 24 hours to do the conversion and new VHDS file. I would prefer to not have that kind of downtime.
Does anyone know of a better way to accomplish this without these two lengthy steps? I've read that the avhdx is very similar to a regular VHDX, would it be risky (in terms of data corruption) to just rename that file to a VHDX and create a new VHDS from that VHDX?
hyper-v windows-server-2016
hyper-v windows-server-2016
asked May 17 at 17:54
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