It’s easy to get lost in trying to find the most convenient tool for your virtual disk conversion these days. Luckily, VirtualizationHowTo decided to compile a list of the 5 best ones available to you just a click away. Diverse hypervisor-governed environments require smooth performance, and, today, you can ensure that without getting too wrapped up.
Read their Top 5 and learn about StarWind V2V and other VHD to VMDK conversion tools now.
PERN S.A., a Polish treasury-governed crude oil logistics company, thought its IT infrastructure was foolproof until a disaster came knocking. Its core data center crashed, ensuing downtime and costs for the company by stalling its operational activities. The company had to achieve replication of data coming from its security systems and make sure the environment is disaster-ready.
Find out how StarWind was able to provide PERN S.A. with an array of disaster recovery options that helped elevate its environment’s resilience.
iSCSI and Fiber Channel have proven themselves as reliable partners of mission-critical operations over the last two decades, true. However, despite iSCSI’s praise, it can’t properly talk to flash, thereby hindering you from achieving the performance SSDs truly promise. Fortunately, we’ve been working really hard to resolve that mishap, and we’ve finally nailed it!
Read the article about StarWind NVMe-over-Fabrics and learn how our new solution enables true PCIe SSD experience over the network and what benefits it brings along.
WhatMatrix is a platform that leaves no things unsaid — they give it to you straight. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance had underwent extensive evaluations by its experts and received their feedback at last! Going after simplicity and cost-efficiency, StarWind HCA is said to be quite versatile and holding its ground solidly.
Read the blog post by WhatMatrix to see which macro-conclusions they’ve reached about our plug-and-play solution.
Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SSH), a Slovenian financial institution, had a non-clustered environment with 3 physical servers and 20 virtual servers and VMware vSphere on top. With a missing stretched cluster, protecting physical machines from any hardware and software failures, achieving high availability (HA) was not possible. Given the ever-present risk of IT infrastructure disruptions, providing data protection and meeting Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements were open to question, not to mention the possibility of business contingency planning. StarWind allowed SSH to get a fault-tolerant and HA clustered environment and ensure business continuity.
Find out how SSH satisfy the strictest RPO and RTO requirements and keep their mission-critical applications highly available thanks to StarWind.
While the whole world is going crazy about NVMe, the utilization efficiency of PCIe SSDs presented over a network in a Windows Server environment is far from satisfactory. The buck stops at traditional protocols like iSCSI and FC that limit NVMe drive I/O badly. These protocols were designed to talk to cold storage media disks, not flash. Tired of that? We introduced NVMe-oF support to StarWind VSAN to bring this tech to Windows Server environments. Is our protocol implementation successful? Yup. With StarWind NVMe-oF, we got 25M IOPS and microsecond-scale latency on 4x Intel Optane in our cluster… can you go beyond?
Find out more about StarWind’s NVMe-oF implementation.
Hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) can become cumbersome for sysadmins to maintain. They’re locked to many user interfaces (UIs), which they gotta shuffle through to keep things in check. Well, that's finally over. StarWind Command Center is a single-pane-of-glass tool to monitor and operate clusters and nodes, VMs, storage, networking, telemetry data, backup, etc. This video explains StarWind Command Center’s substance, demonstrates its features, provides case scenarios, practical benefits and shows you that HCI management can be a game — not a bane.
Learn from this video how you can revolutionize the way you operate your HCI with as much as just a single tool.
Constructive feedback is the way to go if a business wants to develop and thrive in the long run. WhatMatrix conducts its own independent analyses of HCIs, providing them with ranks. Ranking categories assess design, deployment, workload/server/storage support, data availability, etc. After in-depth assessment, StarWind HCA got into their Top 10.
Check out the comparison grid by WhatMatrix to see how HCI vendors, including StarWind, fare compared to one another.
Rank Group PLC, a British entertainment and gaming mogul, was left with a decision of having to find a new option to ensure that its IT environments at retail spots are fault-tolerant. After VMware VSA was retired, the company needed another solution to maintain shear flawlessness of its data flow 24/7 without buying more proprietary hardware. Having teamed up with StarWind in its corporate, Rank decided to try our solutions in its retail, and voila — success!
Find out how Rank Group PLC achieved scalability, redundancy, and high availability with StarWind.
Most often, production VMs are refrained from connecting to the Internet via public IPs. To avoid cybersecurity issues, a site-to-site VPN or console VM, holding a public IP, are used. Azure Bastion comes in to resolve that concern. The new Microsoft PaaS allows to connect production VMs to the Internet, be they Windows or Linux, right through Azure Portal.
Read the article by Romain Serre to learn how to deploy Azure Bastion, connect VMs to it, and use it to centralize event logs.
ECCOS, a Croatian security systems and software development company, had a powerful IT infrastructure but there were issues that even it couldn’t resolve on its own. Ensuring constant uptime and redundancy isn’t something that either Microsoft or VMware can provide by themselves. However, StarWind solutions can be integrated into any environment and dramatically boost its performance in a snap of one’s fingers.
Find out why ECCOS opted for StarWind to become its trusty virtual shared storage companion and how it’s achieved permanent high availability and redundancy for a very attractive price.
“Preparation is key to success” — a saying that people have developed for a very good reason. In this new series, our Solutions Engineer will dissect the process of migrating production data and carry you through its journey step-by-step. During episode 1, you will learn how to prepare for a smooth data migration process with minimum risks.
Watch this video and learn about the first, crucial stage in successful production data migration.
Although there’s a possibility to create apps from the AWS web console or CLI, perhaps you want to take another route. AWS Elastic Beanstalk allows deploying applications to AWS without manually creating such components as EC2 servers, ELBs, security groups, etc. You can use it to deploy your Django project and manage it later as a single entity.
Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer focused on K2 and Microsoft technology stack, to learn how to deploy Django projects to AWS Elastic Beanstalk from Ubuntu machines.
Mine Canadian Malartic, a Canadian gold mining company, has an IT infrastructure with 900 user computers and 100 different virtual servers that maintain the production area 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Maintaining high availability (HA) and ensuring real-time data synchronization were the company's top priorities. This being said, the existing 8 different cold storage units and 2 physical SANs with VMware ESXi on top created a tight corner of a single point of failure (SPOF). StarWind enabled the company to eliminate SPOF for storage, do updates during any hours without cuts at the production site, and make applications constantly available.
Find out how Mine Canadian Malartic ensures real-time data synchronization with StarWind.
Part I was the “theoretical” introduction into the problem you might face if you have multiple SSL sites, for example, that share the same IP and port. That and the issue of TLS 1.0/1.1 translation into newer versions pose a real problem which is a bit nasty to solve. Part II will provide you with an extensive guide on how to get rid of that dilemma.
Read the continuation of the topic by Didier Van Hoye, where he shares the step-by-step process of how to use Kemp Load Master to re-encrypt multiple SNIs on the same IP and port.
Managing queries across various Microsoft 365 services can be somewhat challenging. The interaction across these applications in your cluster should be prioritized to ensure smooth workload. One handy tool to do that is Microsoft Graph Explorer, which exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on the aforementioned services.
Read the quick guide by Nicolas Prigent, a Swiss Systems Engineer, to learn how Microsoft Graph can help you to build and test queries to interact with chosen Microsoft resources.
Managing various operations in a virtualized environment usually calls for multiple tabs, each conforming to separate activities. Simplifying these operations and integrating them into a single GUI saves much time and effort to deal with other pressing matters. Windows Virtual Desktop can help you achieve just that from any host OS via Microsoft Azure.
Read the article by Romain Serre about deploying Windows Virtual Desktop to make your daily virtualization operations cohesive and seamless.
If you want your IT infrastructure to go virtual, you need to know all the angles. However good your hypervisor may be, there's always a catch. In this case, the potential of VMware ESXi doesn't matter if the hardware is not up to date. For the highest performance possible, learn a few fine-tuning tricks!
Read the article by Vladan Seget, an IT and Virtualization consultant, to find out what you should do to make sure your hardware will provide you with the best performance.
Just as VMware’s Project Pacific implies, the plans for the further submergence into the world of containerized applications for vSphere clusters intends to deepen. VMware Tanzu Mission Control is to allow admins to manage Kubernetes clusters regardless of their residential environment. The tool is rumored to become the single base of all K8s cluster operations.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization tech pro, and learn about the grand plans VMware has for Tanzu Mission Control within the scope of Project Pacific.