Quick tip: You find yourself with duplicate HA roles for a virtual machine and you’re unable delete the problematic resource…
Symptoms:
Duplicate cluster roles for a virtual machine.
When attempting to delete, you get the error:
Error code: 0x8007012f The file cannot be opened because it is in the process of being deleted.
Firstly, why does this happen?
This can happen if an admin uses Failover Cluster Manager (even after they’ve been specifically instructed many times not too) to enable HA for a VM, then goes to SCVMM and uses the Migrate Virtual Machine and enable HA.
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