Raising the priority of the defrag process to manage disk space more efficiently also sounds like a critical enhancement. Keen to see how this update impacts performance and reliability in real-world setups!

Avoiding physical domain controllers and instead going for virtual DCs on those Hyper-V nodes sounds like a sleek move, especially to streamline and simplify your setup. Keeping them outside the cluster to dodge the whole chicken-and-egg scenario is smart thinking. Plus, leveraging the iSCSI NIC for...