VHD and VHDX won't Compact

I also have the same problem.
If I compact a VHD or VHDX the compact runs for one second and ends, and the VM's remain uncompacted.
I am using REFS format on the drive, and the VM's are Windows 7 x86, if that makes any difference.
I have disabled System Restore in VM's, as that was a known problem with 2008 R2.
Can this be reported as a bug in Server 2012 RC.

I was having the same problem (minus using ReRF, I am just using NTFS.) I think I finally discovered the "real" issue for me, and the solution. My VHD and VHDX file (tried both ways) has two partitions in it - being a virtual machine for Windows 7 that we
use to create images, it wound up having the small 'system reserved' partition, plus the normal OS partition.
I think what was happening is that only the first partition was being looked at (the small one) and so the optimization, etc, was never happening on the large one. Which would explain the way it came back in just one second (less, really.)
The way I found to get around this was to use a new feature in 2012 - I right-clicked on the VHDX and chose "Mount." This attached *two* drives (can't seem to choose the drive letters.) Then in a "My Computer" window, used the ribbon option "Drive Tools
-> Manage" and chose the "Optimize" tool. Ran the optimization on both of the newly attached drives, closed that out, and then ejected one of the drives (both of them detached when I did.)
Finally, when I ran the "compact" in HyperV Manager, it took a bit longer and actually decreased the size of the VHDX file (in my case, from 31GB to 20GB.)
Hope this helps someone!

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Hello -
I am trying to find a solution to replicate VHD files and VHDX files between two data centers. I'm deploying the solution using Windows Server 2012.
The VHD files are not virtual machines, they are simply storage areas (one for each user) that contain user documents and other files.
The users will potentially log on to terminal servers in two locations and I'd like the VHD files to be accessible from both locations. The VHD files will mount during the logon sequence into a mount point within the users profile (or some other accessible
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Has anyone attempted the replication of VHD files before using DFS-R, and are there any things I should be aware of?
Will DFS-R support delta replication of VHDs? If a user has a 500 MB presentation, within the VHD file, and changes a single line of text, I'd prefer for only the changed blocks to synchronize.
I don't believe DFS-R supports replicating open files, so I understand that the data won't be in sync until the VHD file us unmounted, but thats okay.
Cheers, I'd welcome any feedback.
Mitch

Hello -
I am trying to find a solution to replicate VHD files and VHDX files between two data centers. I'm deploying the solution using Windows Server 2012.
The VHD files are not virtual machines, they are simply storage areas (one for each user) that contain user documents and other files.
The users will potentially log on to terminal servers in two locations and I'd like the VHD files to be accessible from both locations. The VHD files will mount during the logon sequence into a mount point within the users profile (or some other accessible
area within the file system). This is a bit like user profile disks, but more user data disks.
Has anyone attempted the replication of VHD files before using DFS-R, and are there any things I should be aware of?
Will DFS-R support delta replication of VHDs? If a user has a 500 MB presentation, within the VHD file, and changes a single line of text, I'd prefer for only the changed blocks to synchronize.
I don't believe DFS-R supports replicating open files, so I understand that the data won't be in sync until the VHD file us unmounted, but thats okay.
Cheers, I'd welcome any feedback.
Mitch
If you don't own a pretty fat pipe between the data centres (and it comes free of charge) that's not the best idea. For a reason: DFS-R does use compression only paired with per-file changed block tracker no deduplication see...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771058.aspx
...so at the end of the day you'll replicate TONS of non-required information. What you really need to do: deploy a third-party replication solution layered up and working on top of the volume(s) where your VHD/VHDX files are stored.
Will DFS-R work to replicate VHD/VHDX? YES
Is DFS-R optimal for VHD/VHDX replication scenario? NO
Hope this helped :)
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Vhd and Vhdx corrupted

Hello, I have two servers Hyper-V 2012R2 connected to a new SAN (powervaul NX3200). I started to move my virtualmachines to
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machines that have disappeared. The folder and the vhdx file are no longer there. I havethree machines corrupt. The vhdx files are 0 KB. I'm connected to the iSCSI SAN. On each of my two servers, I have a NICdedicated to the SAN. They are on a different network.
My network internet 192.168.10.xx and the network of SAN192.168.5.xx Yesterday I have this message on my iSCSI drives: Offline Scan and Repair Needed. I made the repair. So, i need some help.

Are the Hyper-V hosts stand alone hosts? Are the Hyper-V hosts pointing to the same storage locations for the VMs? If you answered 'yes' to both those questions, you have configured an environment that is guaranteed to corrupt any data on the
volumes being pointed to. The only way to share storage locations between multiple hosts is to configure some sort of sharing mechanism. Within Windows, this is Failover Clustering.
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3,4 GHz Intel Core i7
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I tried restart my iMac and when I was logged back in, my dock preferences were reset.
Also tried to download some security software to check my Mac for malware, but when I did, I tried several, I got a notification that said something like 'dumpfiles (don't know if this is the right translation...) damaged'.
I'm taking screenshots from all the weird notifications I get and even three quarters off the screenshots I took in the last three hours are already unreadable.
It started this morning when I tried opening a Premiere Pro file on which I worked the night before.
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I tried opening it with AE or importing the file in a new project but nothing helped.
When I tried looking for autosaves, this is the really weird part, there were none.
Even though there are autosaves from my other projects, this one was completely gone.
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Also when I openend Premiere all the recent projects had been wiped.
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But when I tried moving the files to an other folder the same error occurred.
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When I tried in Safari it did work but when I clicked enter on the searchbar in Youtube, a page with sexadds appeared (I didn't install AdBlock in Safari...).
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I don't know if it's connected to any of the problems I've been having but I just never experienced this on a mac, I have been a Mac user for 10 years now.
On top of it all, internet started working worse and worse and now it's not even working at all. I had to fill in the password over and over, normally it remembers.
Just like my system preferences, all the preferences I had with Chrome where also reset.
Also somewhere in between I got this notification: Mac OS X must restore library to run programs. Type your password to allow.
To me this is all very weird and suspicious. I have clearly no idea what's going on. Could this be another sort of trojan horse or malware?
Some background info which could be helpful for solving this mystery:
two months ago the one year old Fusion Drive in my iMac just broke out of nowhere.
I got it replaced by a qualified apple repair store.
When I got my computer back, all the files where gone.
I got on the internet without AdBlock installed yet.
A game or whatever it was, can't clearly remember, got installed by accident.
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So I brought my mac back to the store.
Here the repair guy said it was a minor thing and he just needed to reconnect my account. He also mentioned he found a downloaded game name Sparta and it probably had something to do with the error.
I asked him; could it be a virus? He replied no way.
I don't know why I couldn't be a virus, just because it's a mac doesn't mean it cannot be done.
So today I tried installing anti virus software (such as avast- was in a weird language looked like slovenian, clamxav - was in slovenian) but I couldn't install them.
PLEASE help me! I don't know what to do anymore, I work fulltime and I need my computer, I have no time to bring it in for repair, are there other perhaps easier ways?
Could this be the work of a virus or a malware? Or is it a disk permissions issue?

It sounds like you may have multiple problems, but none of them are likely to be caused by malware.
First, the internet-related issues may be related to adware or a network compromise. I tend to lean more towards the latter, based on your description of the problem. See:
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/baddns.php
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/hackedrouter.php
If investigation shows that this is not a network-specific issue, then it's probably adware. See my Adware Removal Guide for help finding and removing it. Note that you mention AdBlock as if it should have prevented this, but it's important to understand that ad blockers do not protect you against adware in any way. Neither would any kind of anti-virus software, which often doesn't detect adware.
As for the other issues, it sounds like you've got some serious corruption. I would be inclined to say it sounds like a failing drive, except it sounds like you just got it replaced. How did you get all your files back after the new drive was installed?
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com, in the form of buttons allowing for donations. Donations are not required to use my site or software.)

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