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Re:
create a flexclone of the snapshot, mount that lun to any windows server
and double click on the vhdx file, it will open/mount as a drive letter.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:41 PM Jeff Cleverley via Toasters <
toasters@teaparty.net> wrote:

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> From: Jeff Cleverley <jeff.cleverley@broadcom.com>
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> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 11:38:06 -0600
> Subject: Hyper-V file recovery from snapshot
> Greetings,
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> 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:
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> 1. Copy the .vhdx from the snapshot to the physical server and mount it.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I was hoping to use this as opposed to having to apply one of our various
> traditional backup methods.
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> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
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> Jeff Cleverley
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