Is there anyway to estimate how much time it may take my VM to merge after I shut it down post Deleting the Snapshot Subtree? There is only one snapshot, but it was back from 12/19/13 when I was first learning about Hyper-V and didn't realize the impact of not merging it back then. Only reason I ask is there is an essential application we use 24/7 being an EMS company so I wanted to provide a timeframe for it being down overnight.
My host Hyper-V 2012 Core server is a Dell R710, 2x6 Core CPU (24 virtual), 48GB RAM with only 2VMs.
My current VHD and AVHD file sizes for this particular VM are as follows:
C: 65GB AVHD / 63GB VHD (last mod. 10/2/14 @ 3:45p)
E: 140GB AVHD / 55GB VHD (last mod. 10/2/14 @ 3:52p)
a060744a...: 16.5K AVHD / 53K VHD (last mod. 10/2/14 @ 3:39p)