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dohertj2 14cc4faa28 Delete the Plex VM disks

Completes section 9 step 3. govc vm.destroy Plex removed the inventory
entry and the [NVME_1] Plex/ folder; datastore free space went
1,619.8 -> 1,756.1 GB (+136.3 GB). 10.100.0.24 / 10.50.0.31 and MACs
00:0c:29:4a:ef:3d / 00:0c:29:4a:ef:47 are now free for reuse.

Done on 2026-09-17 rather than the planned ~2026-10-15. Checking the
plan's own Veeam precondition inverted its assumption: the Backup VMs
job has EnableDeletedVmDataRetention set to False with Simple retention
of 7 restore points, so a VM removed from the job has its points pruned
as the remaining VMs roll the chain - Plex's are due to age out around
2026-09-24, about three weeks before the disks were scheduled for
deletion. Deleting while a good restore point still existed (2026-09-17
03:01, consistent) was safer than deleting later with none.

Recovery position is now: Veeam image restore until ~2026-09-24, then
only the pre-migration library DB at
/mnt/share/backups/plex-migration-2026-09-16/, which rebuilds a Plex
install but not the VM.

veeam.md gains the retention gotcha, since it applies to any future
decommission and the 30-day DeletedVmsDataRetentionPeriodDays value is
misleading while the toggle is off.

Also flags in esxi.md that its VM tables are incomplete: the host has 10
VMs, WW_DEV_VM / Rockwell_Win10 / TCBSD are absent, and DevVM is powered
off rather than on. Left the tables themselves alone as out of scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-09-17 12:12:20 -04:00

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Veeam Backup Server

Access

Hostname: VEEAM
IP: 10.100.0.30 (LAN_100) / 10.50.0.32 (DATA_50)
OS: Windows Server 2025 Standard (Build 26100), 64-bit
Credentials: dohertj2 / Sonamu8901!
SSH: ssh dohertj2@10.100.0.30 (passwordless, key in C:\ProgramData\ssh\administrators_authorized_keys)
For PowerShell: ssh dohertj2@10.100.0.30 "powershell -Command '...'"

Hardware (VM on ESXi)

CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz (8 vCPUs)
RAM: 8 GB
Disk: C: 127.2 GB NTFS (59.3 GB free)

Network

Adapter	Description	MAC	IP	Subnet	Speed
LAN_100	vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter #2	00-0C-29-33-76-AF	10.100.0.30/24	LAN_100	25 Gbps
DATA_50	vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter	00-0C-29-33-76-A5	10.50.0.32/24	DATA_50	25 Gbps

Default gateway: 10.100.0.1 (via LAN_100)
DNS: 10.100.0.1

Veeam Backup & Replication

Version: 12.3.0.310
Install path: C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\
All 24 Veeam services running

Managed Infrastructure

Server	Type
Veeam (local)	Windows Server
10.2.0.10	ESXi (old server, kept for reference)
10.2.0.12	ESXi

Backup Repositories

Name	Path	Type	Total (TB)	Free (TB)
NAS_NFS	nfs41://10.2.0.25:/mnt/mypool/veeam	NFS	65.6	63.7
NAS	nfs41://10.50.0.25:/mnt/mypool/veeam	NFS	93.1	69.7

Backup Jobs

Job	Type	Scheduled	Last Result
Backup VMs	Backup	Yes	Success
Backup WW_DEV_VM	Backup	Yes	Success
Backup workstation	Endpoint Agent	Yes	Warning
Backup Joes Macbook	Endpoint Agent	Yes	Warning

Backup VMs includes: Ignition, HA, DOCKER. Deployarr and Plex are explicitly excluded (Plex removed 2026-09-17 on decommission; Veeam converts a removed include into an explicit exclude rather than dropping the entry, so the tombstone is expected). /opt/plex is now covered by the DOCKER VM backup.

Retention gotcha: this job has EnableDeletedVmDataRetention: False with Simple retention of 7 restore points. A VM removed from the job stops generating restore points and its existing data is pruned as the remaining VMs roll the chain — it is not kept for DeletedVmsDataRetentionPeriodDays (30), because that setting is disabled. Plex's points (newest 2026-09-17 03:01) are expected to age out around 2026-09-24. Before decommissioning any VM, export its restore point to a standalone full backup if a long-lived image copy is wanted.

Backup WW_DEV_VM includes: WW_DEV_VM (Wonderware dev VM, ~256 GB increments).

SMB Mappings

Drive	Remote Path	Status
Z:	\\10.100.0.25\Share	Unavailable

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