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I love NUC sized units, I have six 12th gen Intel machines clustered together at the moment. Given what's going on with the whole VMWare/Broadcom mess, are you not better off picking another hypervisor? Proxmox or Hyper-V or something?

Any hardware errors in Device Manager? Or you missing a drive or RAID controller driver or something? In fact you don't say what this "array" is - storage spaces? Some other type of software drive clustering? Or are you using a physical card?

Depending what your use case is you can sign up for Visual Studio and that gets you lots of licenses for a massive range of Microsoft products. The downside is that it's a subscription, probably not much cheaper than £1.5k depending on which subscription you go for (VS Pro is about £1,300/year...

It's a bit of a niche area, but you might want to look into biocybersecurity. Security of medical devices is an up and coming area and with existing skills in this area you might get something of a leg up. On a related note you might want to look into Operational Technology and SCADA security...

A hypervisor is basically "a thing you run virtual machines on" - VMWare ESXi is one, Hyper-V and Proxmox are the other typically used ones. I like Proxmox myself but I've used the others and they all have similar capabilities. I've never used Unraid but I think you would struggle to get a...

The short version is yes. There are a whole slew of ultra small form factor (USFF) boxes that can do pretty much what you're after. I have, for example, several of the Intel NUC 12th Gen machines which have space for an NVMe drive which can be anything up to 4TB, a 2.5" slot which can hold a 4TB...

If you mean that you want to have M365 act as your mail server for your domain.co.uk email addresses then I don't believe that's possible with the Home/Family license. You can use the Outlook client by connecting it your your existing mail servers but that's about it. If you want to have the...

Something of a niche use case but I have a Kubernetes cluster where the base OS for all of the member servers is Fedora CoreOS, which is a lightweight container-oriented OS. Each new member server follows an automatic installation script that joins it to the cluster after the initial boot...

I gave you some advice in my previous post - have you tried any of that?

You're not a douche, but you do need to explain a bit more concisely what you are trying to do and where the problem is hitting. What exactly is the error you are hitting? What is the error message, if any? Its sounds like you are on a Linux client, and you would like to access SMB shares on...

Ebay isn't a bad starting point, there are 12U cabinets on there for less than £200 and most of the sellers are retail places with their own websites that you can go to for a more organised catalog than you get from Ebay. Cost is partly driven by the size but also the depth of the cabinet, so...

Well yeah that's the entire point of these things... One other thing you missed though is the build quality. I've done the DIY thing and I've also bought pre-made Synology boxes in the past, with varying degrees of success and failure. Nothing else has struck the same combination of support for...

The Gen10 boxes are fine little machines, definitely an improvement over the Gen8s which are getting very long in the tooth now. The normal Gen10s will take 32GB of RAM, the Gen10+ will take at least 64GB I believe so a lot more overhead for running VMs comfortably. The downside is that they are...

The 2-3 year training program is to get the "full" SE as opposed to junior/associate, and it involves getting them in front of customers as soon as practicable. They won't be locked in a classroom for years, they will shadow another SE and be expected to be taking their own meetings within 6...

I would argue that's a bad advert for an SE, because it doesn't ask for any of the non-technical skills that are required. But I don't work for Cisco though so maybe they have a different way of working. If we put out the equivalent kind of advert we might get a reasonable set of candidates with...

They should do, and in my experience the best account execs are the ones that form good relationships with their SE over the long term. The trouble is the IT industry, and specifically cyber in my case and very specifically the cyber SE role, has a lot of vacancies at the moment which means...

Where I work we are looking at hiring fresh grads into junior or associate SE roles for £40-50k, with the expectation that they will graduate to standard SE level on ~£80k after 2 years. So not quite "no skills" but definitely on that trajectory. Hiring SEs is really difficult, as it requires a...

Dunno about training courses but you can sign up for a Microsoft 365 Developer account and you get a rolling 90-day licese for up to 25 E5 users, if you want to experiment and learn: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program In theory you're supposed to use it for...

Calibre also has a "send via email" feature that allows you to right-click on a book and auto-send it to your Kindle via email. It will even automatically convert it to mobi format if it's in another format, or you can have it auto-convert when you add the book.

A problem a lot of people have when they try to move from Windows to Linux is fundamentally misunderstanding what a "distribution" is, so they tend to think of them as completely separate operating systems. You should really think of a distribution as "Linux kernel + a bunch of apps". Imagine if...