Hamden Hall Country Day School, an American independent day school, used to have aging hardware for their existing virtual environment. Its performance was disappointing, and the SAN system was prone to failure. As a result, Hamden Hall has chosen StarWind hyperconverged solution as a better alternative.
Find out how Hamden Hall Country Day School received flawless performance, zero downtime, and fault tolerance with the help of StarWind.
The official US motto sounds like “In God we trust”. But there is also another part of this phrase: "In God we trust, the rest we check". Do you want to choose the right soft- or hardware? Always check and read, especially user reviews. IT Central Station is an online platform that offers current, objective, and relevant user information and helps in choosing the best technical solution. Do you doubt what to give preference: StarWind Virtual SAN or Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
Take a look what customers have to say about hyperconvergence done in the right way and make your choice.
Are you a system administrator having trouble working with Hyper-V environment? Thanks to mastering PowerShell, your work environment can be as easily manageable as your own smart home, with its primary functions carried by the task automation!
Learn from the upcoming webinar about improving your Hyper-V environment with task automation through PowerShell.
A person of today should be fair-minded and free from bias in any situation. The tech community is no exception. How can you choose the right soft- or hardware? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the product? IT Central Station is an online platform that offers current, objective, and relevant user information and helps in choosing the best technical solution. Do you doubt what to give preference: StarWind Virtual SAN or VMware vSAN?
Determine the winner by yourself after reading reviews about two VSAN solutions.
A. L. Thompson's, a British building materials retailer, had a VMware environment with local storage and ESXi on top. The company wanted to achieve scalability for its IT infrastructure expanding server space, but without buying expensive DAS and replacing existing hardware. In addition, the company needed to optimize intense virtualized workloads between the ESXi hosts. With StarWind, A. L. Thompson's received a full-fledged shared storage solution with the opportunity to move VMs around and distribute the virtualized workloads between the ESXi hosts evenly and with no need for buying costly proprietary components.
Find out how A. L. Thompson's gets required scalability and high availability with the bare minimum of expense with StarWind.
AllPro Technologies, a U.S. managed IT service provider (MSP), required a shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) of its IT infrastructure. The company had a problem with a slow Hyper-V replication process that was subject to constant errors. Any failures in replication can disrupt data integrity and fault tolerance of the IT infrastructure in case of emergency. With StarWind, AllPro Technologies saved the money and eliminated downtime in case of a power outage.
Find out how AllPro Technologies built a fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with 750+ desktops and 100+ servers thanks to StarWind.
How to save money and maintain integrity of your data with LTO? By no means. If you save your money on the purchase of some modern physical tape drive for backup purpose, you spend twice as much on maintaining media in your datacenter. It’s going round in circles, agree? But you have the opportunity to get rid of all these inconveniences and access your data anytime and securely store it locally with flexible tiering and replication to Backblaze (B2) Cloud Storage. And save your money! We do not urge you to take our word for it. We invite you to visualize your benefits for the decades ahead with our calculator. LTO Vs B2.
Check for yourself what it means to have StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze in your IT infrastructure.
Everybody knows that the main advantage of the HCI system is that it virtualizes all traditional elements of IT infrastructure, such as networking and computing. However, while virtualization technology has been around for a while now, market development shows that it is yet to enter a golden age. As reports go, in coming years hyperconvergence will take a more prominent place, top players are already identified, and StarWind is one of them! Find out more.
Getting highly available (HA) shared storage is an issue of growth for any business. Beginners stretch budgets to splurge on a SAN and the enterprise spends skyrocketing sums to stack it. Both force unnecessary expenditure: their IT-environment isn’t “juiced” to the fullest due to poor functionality and inability to scale. With StarWind VSAN, TechHQ says that startups can easily start without buying SANs and corporates can scale without stacking — everyone can achieve fault-tolerance and HA for a very attractive price.
Find out how to get reliable and fluid resources to power your business.
Keeping your storage up to date is a necessary action one takes to ensure the efficiency of overall infrastructure performance. However, manual handling of such matters as testing storage or setting the workload pattern can be rather tedious to conduct. Or at least it was until the IOBlazer utility kicked in!
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a Virtualization technology professional, to find out how to enable reliable testing of storage subsystems from inside virtual machines.
No report speaks louder in terms of market prospects than a report oriented on customer needs and investment possibilities. Global perspectives of the hyperconverged systems market 2019-2024 are more than promising, and such conclusion is based on product and supply chains analysis, economic and regulatory factors, and, eventually, customer base. No wonder that StarWind confidently takes a place in the front row among major vendor/manufacturers in the hyperconverged infrastructure systems market! Find out more.
Goshen Community Schools, a US public education institution, had an inflexible IT infrastructure built on Dell Compellent SAN with VMware ESXi deployed on top of it. The combination was its SPOF without the benefits of redundancy. The institution required fault-tolerant, highly available (HA) shared storage instead of a costly upgrade of its existing SAN, which would yield little output. Thanks to StarWind, Goshen Community Schools achieved HA and scalability with a single flexible and cost-efficient virtual SAN solution using the components it wanted.
Find out how Goshen Community Schools avoided a budget-breaking scenario and built an extremely fast SAN without stacking at an incredibly competitive price with StarWind.
StarWind presents Virtual SAN (VSAN) for vSphere - a lightweight Linux-based VM, providing your ROBO & Edge ship with needed fault tolerance, high application uptime, high availability, and storage utilization efficiency on existing commodity hardware. Great sailing is not only for big ships. Even small- and medium-sized businesses deserve to have their big sea without any barriers. And you can be sure that your path won’t be blocked by any obstacles: neither complicated licensing conditions nor hardware compatibility list (HCL) strictness.
Go on your highly available path with only 2 nodes with StarWind VSAN for vSphere!
Permolex Ltd. required a shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) of IT infrastructure. Any failures in replication can disrupt data integrity production in case of emergency. With StarWind, Permolex Ltd. saved the money and eliminated downtime in case of failover.
Find out how Permolex Ltd. built a fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with the help of StarWind.
The IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH faced problems with low speed and limited performance and needed a highly available shared storage cluster to use it as a central data store. They were looking for a cost-efficient virtual SAN solution suitable for Hyper-V. The IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH united their servers in one 2 servers highly available cluster, increasing their performance.
Find out how the IBAR Systemtechnik built a cluster with StarWind and increased their performance.
VMware vSphere specialists can do wonders with these environments, pushing its potential to the limit. Unfortunately, IT admins and team members don't usually possess that level of expertise. Nevertheless, by using VMware vSphere snapshot storing technology, you can make administrating vSphere environment much more comfortable with a very flexible way of being able to go back in time and revert changes!
Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out how to store the complete state and data of a virtual machine with VMware snapshot.
Diaflor Technologies, a Romanian hospitality services provider, had an IT infrastructure with two bare-metal servers, a couple of Cisco switches, and an NGFW router. Bare-metal servers have more limitations compared to virtual instances and require physical network resources. All this made the company's IT infrastructure inflexible and costly. Thanks to StarWind, Diaflor Technologies receives a cost-efficient and reliable shared storage, creates a failover cluster, and achieves flexibility and scalability of the IT infrastructure.
Find out how Diaflor Technologies turns to virtualization saving thousands of euros on hardware and software expenses with StarWind.
Everybody knows that access errors are the most irritating ones in any computer-related activity. They become even more confusing if the traditional means to get behind it won't work. Say, you are trying to connect your VM to a domain, and you get this infamous "access denied" message? Don't worry that this will bother you.
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to deal with ERROR_Access_Denied after joining a VM to a domain.
The world has changed, and today nobody treats cybercrime as a joke. However, while huge corporations have employed armies of specialists to take matters in their own hands, it begs the question: what about the others who don't have such vast resources at their disposal? Small organizations are not at all helpless, but there are some things everybody needs to know about cybersecurity!
Read the article by Benoit Voirin, a Cybersecurity consultant, to find out details about the main cybersecurity concerns and solutions.
CIPTI used to have their backups performed manually, which was slowing them down. They were looking for a cost-efficient shared storage solution suitable for Hyper-V, and they found StarWind.
Find out how CIPTI received shared storage with StarWind and increased their performance.