Hi,
I have a VM that has 3 .avhd files totaling 74GB disk space. The actual C
drive vhd is 70GB in size.
I will shutdown the VM so it can merge and remove the large avhd files but
Hyper-V Server's disk this VM is on has only 26GB free disk space.

Do I need to have free space at least the size of the avhd files?



I'm not sure 26GB is enough or I need to add 50GB more free space before
starting the merging of the VM.

Will this hyper-v server run out of disk space if I start the merging for
the VM?

Thanks in advance...

Hi Artunc,

not 100% sure here but just from the merge process perspective I don't think
Hyper-V need the double amount of space for merging the disks.

Regards
Ramazan

"Artunc" <Artunc@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:0535D4B2-4353-4E69-B1A5-45ED4153B3BF@newsgroup

> Hi,
> I have a VM that has 3 .avhd files totaling 74GB disk space. The actual C
> drive vhd is 70GB in size.
> I will shutdown the VM so it can merge and remove the large avhd files but
> Hyper-V Server's disk this VM is on has only 26GB free disk space.
>
> Do I need to have free space at least the size of the avhd files?
>
> I'm not sure 26GB is enough or I need to add 50GB more free space before
> starting the merging of the VM.
>
> Will this hyper-v server run out of disk space if I start the merging for
> the VM?
>
> Thanks in advance...

Thanks Ramazan,
Last year I had to merge/delete another avhd and I remember the free disk
space kept getting smaller and the file kept getting bigger.

I had plently of free diskspace then and I don't remember how big it got
before removing the avhd files.

It definitely use some extra disk space but I'm not sure how much, I don't
want to run out disk space and freeze all the other VMs.

"RCan" wrote:

> Hi Artunc,
>
> not 100% sure here but just from the merge process perspective I don't think
> Hyper-V need the double amount of space for merging the disks.
>
> Regards
> Ramazan
>
> "Artunc" <Artunc@newsgroup> wrote in message
> news:0535D4B2-4353-4E69-B1A5-45ED4153B3BF@newsgroup

> > Hi,
> > I have a VM that has 3 .avhd files totaling 74GB disk space. The actual C
> > drive vhd is 70GB in size.
> > I will shutdown the VM so it can merge and remove the large avhd files but
> > Hyper-V Server's disk this VM is on has only 26GB free disk space.
> >
> > Do I need to have free space at least the size of the avhd files?
> >
> > I'm not sure 26GB is enough or I need to add 50GB more free space before
> > starting the merging of the VM.
> >
> > Will this hyper-v server run out of disk space if I start the merging for
> > the VM?
> >
> > Thanks in advance...

>