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Infra item delete failed Error: A connection attempted failed

I recently deployed a Veeam Hardened Repository (VHR) ISO which involved removing the old Ubuntu based VHR server. Unfortunately I was a little too eager and deleted the VM before I had removed it from Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR). When I attempted to remove the old VHR the following error was displayed.

Infra item delete failed Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Attempting to remove the server via PowerShell resulted in the same error.

Connect-VBRServer -Server $servername
remove-vbrserver -server $server

remove-vbrserver : Failed to delete server

To successfully remove the server, I performed the following steps.

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