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How to recover a deleted VM on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Dear Experts

Someone has accidentally deleted or somehow the VM has disappeared from the Hyper-V host via Hyper-V manager. In fact, the content of the VM seems to be intact with flat folder structure like this:

-Snapshots
-*.xml
-folders
-Virtual Hard Disks
-*.vhd
-*.avhd
-Virtual Machines
-.xml
-folder

How do I make it appears in the Hyper-V host again?

Your advice is highly appreciated.

Regards
Sot

Anuroopsundd

create a New Virtual Machine, select the appropriate choices but when you get to "Connect Virtual Hard Disk" choose "use an existing virtual hard disk" and select your vhds.

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Netflo

Word of advice, when VMs disappear from the Hyper V console this is due to the antivirus excludes not configured correctly. Hence your config files get corrupt and the VM goes missing, though the VM files appear to be there.

I would suggest looking at your antivirus solution and make sure they are excluding all VM related files and locations to prevent this happening again.

sthay

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Dear spaperov

Thanks for the tip. I have tried all the three options and none of them work for me. In fact, our VM has a snapshots and thus the process was not straight forward.

Kindly suggest me more.

Thanks in advance.
Sot

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