Hyper-V checkpoint disk size growth out of control

Hi,
i have hyper-v with exchange server installed on VM. i have used checkpoint in vm production. but i'v got trouble with my disk space. my vm is suddenly pause-critical because of out of disk space that used by checkpoint.
based on microsoft recommendation it's not worth to use point in production environment. if so you have to separate disk from vhd and checkpoint path.
now, im planning to delete all checkpoints. but the current condition of my local disk size is very low.
my vm size now is 300 GB then my free space only 50 GB. please tell me how much free space needed to merge while process merging the disk ? does it possible to perform delete check point with my current condition ?
please give me advice, im in very horrible situation right now.
thanks.

Hi,
Using checkpoints can result to unwanted beheviours like the one you are encoutering.
Aaik, the merge process will need a random free space depending on the avhd sizes and content.
But in your case, you VM is a production VM and the process may miss-behave.
So i highly recommand you do export your VM to another location before deleting checkooints.
Connect a disk to your hyper-v server
Shutdown your VM
Right click the VM then choose Export, and browse the place where you want to export
The exported VM will be a mix of your VHD and AVHDs (checkpoints
Now, try delete checkpoints one by one. Delete the first one, wait for merge, delete the second wait for merge... Do nkt forget, you are using windows server 2012 so kepp the VM stopped for the merge process to run.
Regards, Samir Farhat Infrastructure and Virtualization Consultant || Virtualization, Cloud, Azure ? Follow and Ask here https://buildwindows.wordpress.com

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