docs: right-size VM 106 (docker-home) — 16 GB/8 vCPU → 6 GB/4 vCPU (#19)
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Pre-checks confirmed safe to right-size: no container --memory limits,
no Docker Compose memory reservations. Live usage 1.1 GB / 15 GB (7%).

- Update 106.conf: memory 16384 → 6144, sockets 2 → 1 (8 → 4 vCPUs)
- Add right-sizing-vm-106.md runbook with pre-check results and resize commands

Closes #19

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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agent: 1 agent: 1
boot: order=scsi0;net0 boot: order=scsi0;net0
cores: 4 cores: 4
memory: 16384 memory: 6144
meta: creation-qemu=6.1.0,ctime=1646083628 meta: creation-qemu=6.1.0,ctime=1646083628
name: docker-home name: docker-home
net0: virtio=BA:65:DF:88:85:4C,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1 net0: virtio=BA:65:DF:88:85:4C,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
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scsi0: local-lvm:vm-106-disk-0,size=256G scsi0: local-lvm:vm-106-disk-0,size=256G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=54ef12fc-edcc-4744-a109-dd2de9a6dc03 smbios1: uuid=54ef12fc-edcc-4744-a109-dd2de9a6dc03
sockets: 2 sockets: 1
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---
title: "VM 106 (docker-home) Right-Sizing Runbook"
description: "Runbook for right-sizing VM 106 from 16 GB/8 vCPU to 6 GB/4 vCPU — pre-checks, resize commands, and post-resize validation."
type: runbook
domain: server-configs
tags: [proxmox, infra-audit, right-sizing, docker-home]
---
# VM 106 (docker-home) Right-Sizing Runbook
## Context
Infrastructure audit (2026-04-02) found VM 106 severely overprovisioned:
| Resource | Allocated | Actual Usage | Target |
|----------|-----------|--------------|--------|
| RAM | 16 GB | 1.11.5 GB | 6 GB (4× headroom) |
| vCPUs | 8 (2 sockets × 4 cores) | load 0.12/core | 4 (1 socket × 4 cores) |
**Services**: Pi-hole, Nginx Proxy Manager, Portainer
## Pre-Check Results (2026-04-03)
Automated checks were run before resizing. **All clear.**
### Container memory limits
```bash
docker inspect pihole nginx-proxy-manager_app_1 portainer \
| python3 -c "import json,sys; c=json.load(sys.stdin); \
[print(x['Name'], 'MemoryLimit:', x['HostConfig']['Memory']) for x in c]"
```
Result:
```
/pihole MemoryLimit: 0
/nginx-proxy-manager_app_1 MemoryLimit: 0
/portainer MemoryLimit: 0
```
`0` = no limit — no containers will OOM at 6 GB.
### Docker Compose memory reservations
```bash
grep -rn 'memory\|mem_limit\|memswap' /home/cal/container-data/*/docker-compose.yml
```
Result: **no matches** — no compose-level memory reservations.
### Live memory usage at audit time
```
total: 15 GiB used: 1.1 GiB free: 6.8 GiB buff/cache: 7.7 GiB
Pi-hole: 463 MiB
NPM: 367 MiB
Portainer: 12 MiB
Total containers: ~842 MiB
```
## Resize Procedure
Brief downtime: Pi-hole and NPM will be unavailable during shutdown.
Manticore runs Pi-hole 2 (10.10.0.226) for HA DNS — clients fail over automatically.
### Step 1 — Shut down the VM
```bash
ssh proxmox "qm shutdown 106 --timeout 60"
# Wait for shutdown
ssh proxmox "qm status 106" # Should show: status: stopped
```
### Step 2 — Apply new hardware config
```bash
# Reduce RAM: 16384 MB → 6144 MB
ssh proxmox "qm set 106 --memory 6144"
# Reduce vCPUs: 2 sockets × 4 cores → 1 socket × 4 cores (8 → 4 vCPUs)
ssh proxmox "qm set 106 --sockets 1 --cores 4"
# Verify
ssh proxmox "qm config 106 | grep -E 'memory|cores|sockets'"
```
Expected output:
```
cores: 4
memory: 6144
sockets: 1
```
### Step 3 — Start the VM
```bash
ssh proxmox "qm start 106"
```
Wait ~30 seconds for Docker to come up.
### Step 4 — Verify services
```bash
# Pi-hole DNS resolution
ssh pihole "docker exec pihole dig google.com @127.0.0.1 | grep -E 'SERVER|ANSWER'"
# NPM — check it's running
ssh pihole "docker ps --filter name=nginx-proxy-manager --format '{{.Status}}'"
# Portainer
ssh pihole "docker ps --filter name=portainer --format '{{.Status}}'"
# Memory usage post-resize
ssh pihole "free -h"
```
### Step 5 — Monitor for 24h
Check memory doesn't approach the 6 GB limit:
```bash
ssh pihole "free -h && docker stats --no-stream --format 'table {{.Name}}\t{{.MemUsage}}'"
```
Alert threshold: if `used` exceeds 4.5 GB (75% of 6 GB), consider increasing to 8 GB.
## Rollback
If services fail to come up after resizing:
```bash
# Restore original allocation
ssh proxmox "qm set 106 --memory 16384 --sockets 2 --cores 4"
ssh proxmox "qm start 106"
```
## Related
- [Maintenance Reboot Runbook](maintenance-reboot.md) — VM 106 is Tier 2 (shut down after apps, before databases)
- Issue: cal/claude-home#19