Comments on: Hyper-V SnapShot Files – AVHD and VHD? What The ? http://www.msserveradmin.com/hyper-v-snapshot-files-avhd-and-vhd-what-the/ Server Administration Articles and Tips for Network Admins Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:42:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Albecool http://www.msserveradmin.com/hyper-v-snapshot-files-avhd-and-vhd-what-the/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Albecool Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:13:58 +0000 http://www.msserveradmin.com/?p=193#comment-438 Hyper-v snapshots are nothing like the VMware snapshots; and unlike VMware MS does not recommend running productions server with snapshots. Only use snapshots prior to making major changes to the VM, incase something breaks. Also DC's, Exchange, and SQL servers should never be running with snapshots on a regular basis. I have heard of server crashes that cause a VM to revert back to it's orginal state with all changes since snapshots lost forever, Yikes. Hyper-v snapshots are nothing like the VMware snapshots; and unlike VMware MS does not recommend running productions server with snapshots. Only use snapshots prior to making major changes to the VM, incase something breaks. Also DC’s, Exchange, and SQL servers should never be running with snapshots on a regular basis. I have heard of server crashes that cause a VM to revert back to it’s orginal state with all changes since snapshots lost forever, Yikes.

]]> By: The Year to use Hyper-V and get Virtual - Windows 2008 Network Administrator | Windows Server Administration http://www.msserveradmin.com/hyper-v-snapshot-files-avhd-and-vhd-what-the/comment-page-1/#comment-103 The Year to use Hyper-V and get Virtual - Windows 2008 Network Administrator | Windows Server Administration Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:01:23 +0000 http://www.msserveradmin.com/?p=193#comment-103 [...] in a week or so, so I will be stepping up my migration of Physical Servers to Virtual ones using Hyper-V. I will be letting you know how that goes and how I think the best way of going about this is. I [...] [...] in a week or so, so I will be stepping up my migration of Physical Servers to Virtual ones using Hyper-V. I will be letting you know how that goes and how I think the best way of going about this is. I [...]

]]> By: Gary Martin http://www.msserveradmin.com/hyper-v-snapshot-files-avhd-and-vhd-what-the/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Gary Martin Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:12:54 +0000 http://www.msserveradmin.com/?p=193#comment-96 I had exactly the same issue, some missunderstanding and lack of documentation from MS let me think that the snapshot took a copy of the .VHD, but it simply doesn't. Check my article out on : http://www.gary-martin.co.uk I had exactly the same issue, some missunderstanding and lack of documentation from MS let me think that the snapshot took a copy of the .VHD, but it simply doesn’t. Check my article out on :

http://www.gary-martin.co.uk

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