http://blogs.technet.com/b/tonyso/archive/2010/11/25/the-case-of-the-pending-vm-snapshot-merge.aspxThe case of the pending merge. Guest post from reader Jeremy Hagan Recently I had a virtual machine stop responding. Upon investigation I noticed that the machine was paused. This usually happens when the underlying disk has run out of space and it wasen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/tonyso/archive/2010/11/25/the-case-of-the-pending-vm-snapshot-merge.aspx#3371639Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:37:58 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3371639Hans Vredevoort<p>Nice article!</p> <p>We once needed an emergency exit for a similar delayed merge of multiple and prolonged Hyper-V snapshots, but were unable to grow the underlying disk to allow the merge to complete. It would have taken very long to go that route.</p> <p>We found disk2vhd.exe a very useful tool and were able to create fresh VHD&#39;s from within the VM. All we had to do was recreate the VM and add it back to the cluster.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Hans Vredevoort</p> <p>Cluster MVP</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="Http://hyperv.nu/blogs/hans">Http://hyperv.nu/blogs/hans</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="Http://www.twitter.com/hvredevoort">www.twitter.com/hvredevoort</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3371639" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/tonyso/archive/2010/11/25/the-case-of-the-pending-vm-snapshot-merge.aspx#3371312Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:16:54 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3371312Alexander Trofimov<p>We have just decided to monitor .avhd files existence and put the process for planning downtime as soon as a snapshot is created. Snapshots are not a backup tool so it is ok for us to totally remove it after it was created =) </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3371312" width="1" height="1">