Hello All,
I have been tasked with merging a avhd and vhd for a company that is running out of VHD disk space
This is how it is.
Server 2012 (not R2) with Hyper V installed
1 VHD running SBS 2008 (exchange has been moved to Office 365, no SharePoint, just file shares and limited apps running remain)
The VHD has a snapshot attached which has been running for 2YEARS NOW!!!!
the C drive is 100GB Fixed (60GB of uncommitted avhd data)
the D drive has 500GB fixed (230GB of avhd uncommitted data)
I cannot "delete/merge" the snapshot because the array does not have the merge space (I am really stuck here)
I have tried adding an empty snapshot to the avhd and then exporting it but it "completes" but the avhd data is not committed!!! this is because I think ......the fixed VHD size?? reached its max and then...says its complete
Exact same this with the D drive
After the export the VHD are 100 Dynamically expanding and 500 GD expanding for the D drive
this is what I have tried adding an empty avhd to the parent because I read on many placed that if you export this it merges the avhd into the vhd which give you 2 singe VHDs (C: , D:)......this works but the uncommitted data is not merged into the original VHD.so I end up with two VHDs 1 that has all the old data and the same with the second...
so 1 VHD, 2 Years of uncommitted avdh not no room to merge because of the original vhd because its fixed size
I have spent all weekend on this and found no solution but I do have a 3TB ICSI target to play around with it if this helps
Any suggestions?
PS I have spent 25hours on this already but I will try anything
Kind Regards,
Shane Kearney.
Shane Kearney