Recovery snapshots should be removed after failover

Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

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Property Details
Operating System Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature Hyper-V
Severity Warning
Category Operations

In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.

Issue

A failed over virtual machine has one or more recovery snapshots.

Impact

Available space may run out on the physical disk that stores the snapshot files. If this occurs, no additional disk operations can be performed on the physical storage. Any virtual machine that relies on the physical storage could be affected. This impacts the following virtual machines:

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Resolution

For each failed over virtual machine, use the Complete-VMFailover cmdlet in Windows PowerShell to remove the recovery snapshots and indicate failover completion.