When I right click on a VM in Hyper-V Manager and click 'Shut down' it will usually say "Merge in Progress" and take a very long time to complete. During that time RAM and Disk 0 usage in Task Manager will be 100% and the host computer becomes completely unusable for that duration. The longer the Hyper-V stays awake before the shutdown the longer will the Merge take (if the VM was up for a minute the merge will take ~15 minutes, if the VM was up for a couple of days or a week the merge will take 1-2 hours).
My coworkers that use Hyper-V don't seem to have this issue. My understanding is that this has to do with Checkpoints but I don't think I should disable them since AFAIK that would make the data on the VM more volatile and in case of a crash I might lose some of my work.
Can you guys comment on if this is normal and if I can do anything to prevent those long merges? What I usually do is try to remember to shut down the VM daily but if I forget to do that on a Friday I really pay the price on the following Monday when I happen to need a reboot.
Update: I do have an SSD, the processor is i7 4th gen at 3.60GHz, 32GB of RAM
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