VMM shows missing virtual machine, but they are not?

Question

_{Tuesday, February 26, 2019 7:46 AM}

Hello,

So we have system center virtual machine manager cluster 2016 with latest updates installed, our problem is that VMM tends to show virtual machines in missing status, but those machines are on the same host, and those are the same virtual machines :

So all objects in the picture are basically one virtual machine, but SCVMM sees them as seperate objects, and shows them as missing?  I can't find any logs that caused this to happen.. So my question is why is this happening so we can avoid it from now on?

Edit : All properties are the same, hyper-v host, vm name, disk location, ram, cpu.. but they have different ID's... as far as i understand this issue, vmm discovered them wrong somehow?.. but how?

All replies (3)

_{Tuesday, February 26, 2019 5:03 PM}

Did you try to remove the hyper-v host from VMM and adding it back? 

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_{Thursday, March 7, 2019 8:13 AM}

Hi Matej,

Yeah, I did, and that fixed it.. but I do not like that solution because if that happened on some cluster, and if nodes are in restart pending state, reinstall agent will restart them.. which means I need to plan maintenance? I just want to know why is this happening? 

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_{Thursday, March 7, 2019 11:11 AM}

You can remove them from VMM using remove-scvirtualmachine with the -FORCE parameter.

the -force will only remove the VM the VMM and not the actual VM.

I find sometimes if you migrate the VM to another node, VMM will pick up on it.