I am working with a Hyper-V server hosting two VMs. The production VM is backed up by a scheduled job in Veeam Backup & Replication program.
I started receiving warnings from Veeam about low disk space. I am attempting to resolve the warning by freeing up some disk space.
It appears most of the disk space is being taken up by .avhdx files approximately 1GB in size, 6 per month, going back almost one year.
Hyper-V manager does not show any open snapshots. I believe the only open snapshots are temporary and occur during the backup job.
It seems snapshots are being created during the backup process and offloaded to cloud storage on Backblaze and each time a .avhdx file is left behind.
I also ran Get-VMSnapshot in powershell, still no snapshots shown.
What is the proper course of action to remove or cleanup the excess .avhdx files?