Hi,
Host: Windows 2012 R2
VM: Windows 2012 R2
Storage: Direct Attached (Dell PowerVault MD3400)
I have a VM that is used as a productionFile Server. This has a number of vhdx's (C: OS, D: Data Y: Pagefile and a 10TB Shares disk that is mounted to a folder in D:).
Recently a backup (Altaro) has created a recovery checkpoint and failed (31st August). Consequently the checkpoint file never got deleted and therefore I have a number of avhdx's. In Hyper-V Manager there is no option to to Delete or Delete the Subtree. Also there have been no backups since this date as another (inconsequential) VM suffered the same fate and backups just kept creating new recovery checkpoints.
Running Get-VMSnapshot -VMName hstv.artemis gives this.
VMName Name
SnapshotType CreationTime ParentSnapshotName
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hstv.artemis hstv.artemis - Backup - (31/08/2016 - 16:39:31) Recovery 31/08/2016 16:41:33
Trying Get-VMSnapshot -VMName hstv.artemis | Remove-VMSnapshot fails with (Cannot delete checkpoint: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF).
My research indicates my only option is to do an offline manual merge (on copies) of the disks to get them all back into single vhdx's.
- Is this my only option?
- What would happen to the VM Snapshot files?
Thanks
Tony