Hyper-V checkpoints

[neonetman]

I have an issue in Hyper-V whereby the console is showing 2 checkpoints, whilst the disks have been merged manually. This means I can't delete the checkpoint entries as the files are missing, nor can I create any more checkpoints.

 

Can anyone advise how I can resolve this?

[ThatBoringBloke]

We have had this in the past. I ended up exporting the VM and re-importing.

[Fazza]

We've had that kind of issue plenty of times and there's a powershell command you need to run that tidies up the checkpoints for you after you have merged the disks manually but I cant for the life of me remember what the powershell command is at this time!

[neonetman]

Finding that command out would be immensely useful. Might save me a massive headache

[Fazza]

Finding that command out would be immensely useful. Might save me a massive headache

 

Just been checking our notes and I think this is it:

 

Get-VMSnapshot -ComputerName "MyHyperVHost" -VMName "VirtualMachineName"

 

 

If I remember correctly once you run this at the powershell command line, in Hyper-V the VM then says 'merging' etc. and sorts itself out. We've had to use this when DPM left checkpoints behind that Hyper-V itself wouldnt let us delete/merge but this did the trick.

 

It was a number of years ago since we had to do this and nothing to test it on so you might want to export your VM first so you have a backup in case it doesnt work any more.