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Good afternoon. I have a problem with a Hyper-V cluster. A VM clone with the same ID as the original VM was accidentally imported. It turned out two VMs in the same cluster with the same ID. How can I delete an imported VM from the cluster (for reimport) if turning off one VM turns off the second VM as well? Will the original VM be deleted if you try to delete a clone? Please help me. Thanks.
Hi @1 1 ,
I would firstly make sure that you have backups available for the original VM.
Even though the VMs have the same IDs, turning off one won't turn off the other, you should be safe to turn off the duplicated (imported) VM and then delete it.
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Best regards,
Leon
Thank you for your answer, but in our case, turning off one VM affects the second VM, which also turns off. Actually, that's why the question arose, if we delete one VM, will the second one be deleted at the same time? And how to correctly delete the duplicated VM so that it does not affect the second VM?
Interesting scenario, Hyper-V probably thinks all VMs with this specific ID should shutdown etc.
I assume that your your storage where you have the VMs stored are in two different folders? Either way if you delete a Hyper-V VM from the Failover Cluster Manager (FCM) it will not delete the VHDX files but only the configuration files, but since your scenario is peculiar I would not take any risks here.
What I would suggest to you in this case and to be really on the safe side is to do an export of your original VM to some place safe, then go ahead and delete the duplicate VM, if the original is deleted also at that point, it's ok because you have already exported it, if it doesn't delete it then you can go ahead and continue using the original VM.
If both are deleted, import the exported original VM.
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