Archive for April, 2010

Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V Snapshots

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Situation: You have a bunch of VM’s on a Server 2008 R2 RC instance. The RC expires and dies a horrible death at the hands of the IT manager, who complains for more time than it takes to reinstall the server about someone actually loading an RC onto the server. You now have a working server, but an empty Hyper-V manager, zero snapshots and no config file backups. In the rush to reinstall, VM’s were not exported, but instead just had their VHD and AVHD files copied…

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