I have Azure Site recovery setup and it creates all these avhdx files which my VM ends up running on .. usually when i reboot the server it will merge them but that seems to have stopped working.. how do i get these all to merge or stop these from being created its taking up alot...
Thank you for your question and reaching out. From the error it looks its being used or merging is still in process. Try SYSTEM account full rights to the .avhdx files icacls "full-path-to-vhd-or-vhdx-file" /grant "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\Virtual-Machine-ID":(F) Disable any Back of Anti...
Arkom This is due to a snapshot merge having failed due to the host machine not having correct permissions set on the VHD(x) files. Note that your VM must be turned off to avoid any issues during the merging operation. Try to correct permission icacls <Folder with VHDS> /grant “NT V...
I wanted to try merging all of these avhdx files manually, so I copied them all to another hypervisor and used Edit Disk to start the process.Using Inspect, I had been able to find the dependency order of the chain and started moving through the avhdx files in order from last child ...
>y question is it possible if I merge some checkpoint but not all and I was started VM after Started Can I continue merging without loss data or I must start merging at first? 1. For the .avhdx files left by DPM, we can merge them manually; 2. It's recommended to merge the check...
I tried to merge the avhdx into the main vhdx with "manage disk" in the hyper-v GUI, but the ID is not matching and I am not sure if and how to proceed. The GUI warns that there might be data loss. How do I get rid of the .avhdx, .mrt and .rct files? As I mentioned,...
This is due to a snapshot merge having failed due to the host machine not having correct permissions set on the VHD(x) files. Note that your VM must be turned off to avoid any issues during the merging operation. Try to correct permission ...
I tried to merge the avhdx into the main vhdx with "manage disk" in the hyper-v GUI, but the ID is not matching and I am not sure if and how to proceed. The GUI warns that there might be data loss. How do I get rid of the .avhdx, .mrt and .rct files? As I mentioned,...
>y question is it possible if I merge some checkpoint but not all and I was started VM after Started Can I continue merging without loss data or I must start merging at first?1. For the .avhdx files left by DPM, we can merge them manually;...
>y question is it possible if I merge some checkpoint but not all and I was started VM after Started Can I continue merging without loss data or I must start merging at first?1. For the .avhdx files left by DPM, we can merge them manually;...