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Asked by: Yesenia Abrego
technology and computing data storage and warehousingHow do I manually merge checkpoints in Hyper V?
Manually merge checkpoints if chain is broken
- Turn off the VM and backup VM's content.
- Open Hyper-V Manager where is VM located.
- Click on Edit disk, select the folder where VM keeps it's vhdx.
- Select very last check point file (with .
- Select “Merge”
- You will be asked to confirm merge this file with the parent disk.
- Do it until you have no avhdx files in VM's folder.
Accordingly, how do I manually merge snapshots in Hyper V?
How to manually merge snapshots in Hyper-V
- View (for 2012/2012R2, folder properties 2008/2008R2) –> activate “File Name Extensions” and change AVHD extension to VHD.
- Go to Hyper-V Manager , click on Edit Disk on the right pane , Browse and locate your checkpoint (.vhd)
- Click on the Next and choose Merge.
- Merge the changes to the parent virtual disk.
- Click “Finish”
- Select Hyper-V server in Hyper-V Manager.
- On left-hand side, select Inspect Disk.
- Browse to location of restored AVHD/AVHDX files.
- Select one of the AVHD/AVHDX files > OK.
- Record parent disk name.
- Repeat steps 2-5 for each AVHD/AVHDX file, and record their order (from newest to oldest)
Accordingly, how do I combine checkpoints in Hyper V?
Select the required VM. Click Edit Disk. The Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard will open.
To establish the checkpoint structure, take the following steps:
- Open Hyper-V Manager.
- In the center pane, select the VM whose snapshots you want to be merged.
- In the Actions section on the right, click Inspect Disk.
- Select the .
The entire merge took 15 minutes from start to finish. That is merging around 60Gb of differencing disk.