Hyper-V snapshots deleting


i have production vm ,have taken snapshot yesterday before making changes. issue after making changes got issue vm have apply snapshot have taken making changes.

 

now question issue running out of disk space, wanted delete snapshots, if delete yesterday’s snapshot have applied after getting issues, there issues vm ..?

 

please advise , let me know if need info      


krishna

once apply snapshot, can merge them.

the bad news there no way merge snapshots online (that i've found).  you have shut down vm it.

note, every time make snapshot, hyper-v freezes current vhd , starts new differing vhd.  so, each snapshot new vhd.  if go , defrag guest (inside guest), duplicate tons of data.

unforutnately (and huge bug in 2008 hyper-v) have shut down vm , run edit disk drive wizard merge snapshots , recover space.

if don't often, host machine's disk fills up.

the other bad news the merge process not quick. can take hours recover 60g of data.



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