Indeed, StarWind could do a great job in case of clustering required for this environment.
With Ceph it could be a tough job to make it work properly, especially in terms of the amount of time spent on that.

I shut the VMs down gracefully rather than suspend them. Fortunately, I have not run into issues with pending Windows Updates being installed during this shutdown, although I have heard of such cases and it's something I still have to consider.

What about Amazon Appstore? It could be a really good alternative to Google's Play Market in the view of no Google services installed.

Before the RAID array type is selected, it would be great to know the workload in terms of write operations. For RAID5/6 write performance will be significantly lower than that of RAID10 on the same disks. Just bear that in mind.

The PowerShell way will definitely not affect the domain membership. As for the wmic method, I have not tried that a single time to confirm.

Sorry, guys. pasted the link to this thread. The correct one is https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/restoring-virtual-machine-creation-time/

It looks like the creation time parameter is missing there. Check this https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/restoring-virtual-machine-creation-time/ for a way to fix it.
Edited: added correct link.

@momurda if you doubt what type (object/string/anything) is returned, try using $a.GetType() and it will return you the variable type.

oCam http://ohsoft.net/eng/ is a nice piece of software for screen recording for Windows.

Yeah, Jira is good indeed.