@PSX_Defector said:

Updates are good, but in the reality of SMB, you cannot find any way to update shit code.

That's only an artifact of SMBs on Windows. I've worked with tons of SMBs on Linux and never see update issues outside of old consultants trying to screw them by creating artificial migration needs. It takes effort to have these problems in the Linux world. Just being lazy, you are pretty likely to stay patched.

@johnhooks Indeed it does.

Dell acknowledge the issue:

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/dell-owns-up-to-edellroot-fake-cert-security-gaffe-412229?eid=1&edate=20151125&utm_source=20151125_AM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

To get rid of the self-signed root certificate, Dell customers have the option of waiting for a software patch to be rolled out over the coming days, or downloading and running the fix themselves.

Link to fix: https://dellupdater.dell.com/Downloads/APP009/eDellRootCertFix.exe

Ended up revising my approach to the whole configuration. I bought an SM951 128GB for the caching device and grabbed a pair of seagate 2TB drives and put them in an md raid 10. Random 4k inside one of the VMs averages between 12,000 and 20,000 write depending on queue depth. This seems low given that the SM951 is rated really high, can bcache be tuned to increase the dirty cache for random io?

I did manage to find a setting for sequential which pushed it up to 1GB/s.

Encryption has more or less always been allowed - it's only through the ease of use that now they are pushing to make it go away.

Excellent topic

To add fuel to the fire (though it might have been mentioned already below)

It simplifies the transition between models and makes of laptop. I like to "generic windows-ify" all my installs so that you use all the MS stuff to manage wifi etc. Then the only transitions you need to coach users on is to new windows versions.

@BRRABill said:

@Nic

The next time I have a need for business class AV I will reach out to you.

Thanks - yeah reach out any time.

I have an old (6+) C2D Lappy with Xubuntu.
It plays Worms quite well. Not sure what else I've tried as I only really use it when I go wandering away from home for a night or more.

<inserts shameless plug for ownCloud here, lol>

@johnhooks said:

As a side question, what's the advantage to kickstart if you can clone templates. Cloning is much faster. Is it just for large deployments?

Kickstart is how big companies did it in the pre-virtualization era.

For me thought the question is how drivers from Microsoft differs from the original vendor’s drivers.

As far as I know, the driver needs to be certified at MS end to reach the MS shop, so at some point the freshest driver can be obtained from the vendor directly…

@KOOLER said:

What kind of PM you want? How to chunk physical LAN into two vLANs? It's not really StarWind thing and there's nothing private there 🙂

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adamfazio/archive/2008/11/14/understanding-hyper-v-vlans.aspx

Then you move AS IS.

Something along those lines... 8-)

Do other machines have the issue when they try to hook up at the same location?

I'm not sure that I understand the question.

@BRRABill said:

And with a product like DropBox Busniess I can collaborate by SHARING, but not working on the document at the same time.

Right, which is a bit different.

Yeah, it's limited nearly to pointless.

@scottalanmiller said:

That's not an uncommon approach.

That is exactly why we use it. We use the Action Pack for application builders.

Going to do so now, thanks.