He right-clicks the Dev-Web-01.vmdk file. He hits Delete . The file disappears instantly. No “Are you sure?” No recycle bin. Just… gone.
Two seconds later, his phone rings. It’s the on-call developer.
Alex doesn’t panic (much). He remembers a rule his mentor taught him:
It’s 11:30 PM on a Friday. Alex is doing routine storage cleanup on the company’s VMware ESXi host. They have a legacy virtual machine named “Dev-Web-01” that was decommissioned months ago. He’s been asked to free up space on the datastore.
The Midnight Click