VMware EXSi4.1.0 duplicat vm entries

We use VMware 6.7 and have no issues. Do you guys have VMware Tools properly installed and updated on your guest VMs? 

Same here, we have VMware 6.5.0.

Did someone find a soliution?

Update: we upgrade VMware to 6.5.0 and duplication issue has been resolved. 

I believe its issue in earlier version of VMware. 

Same issue here.  three host ESXi 6.5 cluster, two standalone ESXi 5.5, and one old ESX 4.x.

Around 400 VM's but Observium says 42.2k.

Hi,

We have the same (similar) problem. We have one ESXi that is reported in Observium as having over 15000 VMs running on it (in fact no more than 20). Duplicates were added during every discovery, so to stop this cancerous growth I disabled "virtual machines" discovery module for that one.

The machine in question is VMware ESXi 5.0.0 (build-469512).

We have 31 ESXi machines, and this is the only one making a mess. Strangely enough, we have a bunch of machines running exactly the same version of ESXi, which do not exhibit this problem. SNMP config is exactly the same on all of them. Do you have any suggestions what can be wrong?

Is there any development going on in this issue? because we have ~25 VMware Host so it's making mess.

UPDATE: Observium still adding duplicate VMs after it deleted all duplicates a few days ago.

I have no idea. I just said "Temporary workaround which may work". Strangely, all the duplicate VMs added as duplicates were deleted a couple of days back. I'm running CE and did not do any code updates. I just let the cron job run and did not stop it to test what I thought might solve the issue temporarily as our network guys were adding new devices daily. My VM count increased a lot but suddenly all duplicates were removed in one random cron job run. Only the actual number of VMs remain. I dont know for sure what is causing this issue. I suspect VMware giving faulty data/unique ID for each VM every time Observium polls for changes. I suspect Observium deleted all duplicates one day as it did not see those IDs for a few days. I could be wrong. If anyone familiar with Observium's workings could shed some light on this, then it would be great!

But if i run manually in future in that case will it create duplicate VMs?

Temporary workaround which may work is to disable the discovery cron job which runs every 6 hrs and run it manually whenever there is a need to "discover" changes in the network.