Tag: AVHDX

Systems Admin

Hyper-V Snapshots Part 2: Merging the AVHDX Chain Back Into the Parent VHDX

Part 1 covered creating, applying, and managing snapshots. This post is the consolidation half — what happens when you delete a snapshot and the differencing-disk overlay has to be merged…

Systems Admin

Hyper-V Snapshots Part 1: Create, Revert, and Manage VM Save-States

The Hyper-V checkpoint is a save-state of a running VM — configuration, optionally memory, and a differencing-disk overlay that captures every block the VM writes after the snapshot is taken.…