Before headsets had the mute button, we had this:

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The joy of SCVMM

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For those of you who haven't used System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, there are apparently a few caveats to its use. Like managing virtual hard drives. In the Hyper-V manager, removing a VHD unlinks it from the virtual machine but leaves the file on the server. In SCVMM, the button is labeled the same - remove - and has the same icon. However, as it turns out, the function is not the same.

Allow me to quote from Microsoft support:

"In SCVMM, unfortunately it does delete the VHD.

There is a patch coming out for SCVMM R2 to change the text on the dialog box to make it more explicit that that action deletes the VHD."

MICROSOFT, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!

Also:

"I do not know of a way of recovering a deleted VHD. Situations like this are exactly why the text is being changed. Do you have a backup you can restore from?

I will double check for any reference of a way to recover, but I don’t believe one exists."

THAT WAS MY BACKUP!