The Number of Virtual Machine keeps changing on vCenter Server

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• When checking ESXi hosts' Summary or Virtual Machine menu, the number of virtual machines keeps changing.
• Same symptom can be observed on ESXi host client.

Cause

Same virtual machine is running on two different ESXi hosts due to abnormal HA behavior before the problem happens

Resolution

1. Select one unstable virtual machine as example.
2. Run command "localcli vm process list|grep <VM name>" on all ESXi hosts in the cluster
3. Find the duplicate VM World ID and stop it.

Reference: Powering off an unresponsive virtual machine on an ESXi host 

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
This symptom has no impact to service