More than one User Profile Service Instance

Question

We have SharePoint 2013 and running the following PS cmdlet:

get-spserviceinstance | ? {$_.Typename -eq "User Profile Service"}

We get the following result:

I am not sure why there are too many User Profile Services and two of them are Online. Does that look right? The reason I am asking, is that User Profile Sync has been running to day and when I click on stop, it is stuck in stopping.

Answer 1

You have more copies of each services because your farm has more servers.

Try this to see the online services:

Get-SPServiceInstance | where {$_.Status -eq "online" } | Sort TypeName | Format-Table TypeName,Id,Status,Server

Take also a look here: multiple results for each service instance