Hyper-V file recovery from snapshot - toasters

1 Sep 2021


      Greetings,
I'm trying to figure out how to mount a .vhdx (Server 2012 Hyper-V/Failover
Cluster) to be able to view or restore a specific file.  I have only found
2 ways to do this so far:
1.  Copy the .vhdx from the snapshot to the physical server and mount it.
2.  Use Disk manager and mount it read-only remotely from the NetApp.  I
have found this is only working if the VM was down when the snapshot was
taken.
Is there a way to get the .vhdx from the snapshot mounted remotely?  When I
have to copy a 300G .vhdx, it is very slow and it limits the systems with
enough free space as targets.
I was hoping to use this as opposed to having to apply one of our various
traditional backup methods.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Cleverley
Factory Systems Engineer
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Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611

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