Nov. 4th, 2009
The joy of SCVMM
Nov. 4th, 2009 12:10 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
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!
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!