I have Exch 2013 Server and WS2012 Hyper-V in a POC environment.

When i 1st created the VM, it was approx 30GB in size....

After several months of usage in a POC, the VM has grown to over 66gb.

I then deleted some *log files, and i got it back to its original size of 30GB...

I then "compress" the VM using the Hyper-V Console.

But the VM is still occupying ~ 66 gb on the disk drive.

What steps am i missing to get it back to the original size

Thanks in Advance

Magellan

when you say "compress" are you referring to compact option in Hyper-v?

similar issues have been discussed a few times on technet. please refer below thread

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b57c87f9-79b2-46e9-a471-005b45246c8c/vhd-and-vhdx-wont-compact

In case above thread doesn't help you. please provide further details.

Thanks.

Hello,

This issue is not related to your exchange server. So I recommend you post your issue to windows server forum.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserverhyperv

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