Leftover AVHDX Files after backup

[rosman4u]

Hello all,

Fairly new to Veeam and I do have an open case for this as well but was curious to see if anyone else has had this issue with Veeam BR. I had to run an active full the other day and since then noticed I started losing space on my shared cluster drive for my VM's. What I discovered was my SQL VM folder grew to over 100GB on top of its typically 300GB size. Once I checked I noticed all the avhdx files listed. Is there any way to get Veeam to merge this files to the VHDX on my vm?

[Mike Resseler]

Shawn,

Please post the case ID here also and the follow-up of the work with support.

That SQL server VM, is that a standalone? (I mean, not a virtual cluster with a shared VHDX or VHD Set as in 2016?) Reason: in 2016 the VHD set works with a AVHDX format but it is not a checkpoint!
Second: Can you look in Hyper-V manager and see if you have that checkpoint running? What are the details of it?

[nmdange]

Here's some info that will probably fix your issue:
https://blog.workinghardinit.work/2015/ ... l-machine/

[rosman4u]

Shawn,

Please post the case ID here also and the follow-up of the work with support.

That SQL server VM, is that a standalone? (I mean, not a virtual cluster with a shared VHDX or VHD Set as in 2016?) Reason: in 2016 the VHD set works with a AVHDX format but it is not a checkpoint!
Second: Can you look in Hyper-V manager and see if you have that checkpoint running? What are the details of it?

My case ID# is 02131252. Thanks for the follow-up guys. I did manage to get this resolved with good direction from support and combing thru my logs. Apparently, the previous admin setup site to site replication through Hyper-V and that link was broken since the DR site was down. Not only did I have leftover AVHDX files but also .hrl files growing quickly in size. Pausing the replication and finally get the DR site backup cleared everything up.

[Mike Resseler]

Shawn,

Happy to hear that it is solved. Thanks for coming back to us with the solution

Cheers
Mike

[Mike Resseler]

@nmdange

Great post by one of the Veeam Vanguards . Just a quick, additional note, because of the new VHD-set using AVHDX as an extension, I have seen people trying those type of procedures on that one, and then (when it doesn't work) just delete it. I still wonder why MSFT decided to give it the same extension name