The storage media market keeps evolving, and the number of present-day options is quite intimidating. Knowing which type of storage is best suitable for a particular task is a must. To help with that, our Solutions Engineer has prepared a webinar on the most popular storage types, their pros and cons, and what to look for during purchasing.
Register for our new webinar on modern storage media, 2020 tendencies, and learn how to choose the best option for building or updating your infrastructure.
Bypassing conjunctions with the public networks is easier said than done. Especially, if your endpoints are in faraway regions or even have different tenants, keeping the bandwidth high and cybersecurity tight can be an issue. Microsoft introduced Azure Private Link specifically for that reason, allowing users to create private endpoints within their virtual network.
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a Swiss System Engineer, about using Azure Private Link to create private connections in your virtual network, eliminating exposure to the public internet.
Enovade is a Malaysian IT consulting company with a small IT infrastructure. Its physical SAN started to experience some unexplainable hardware issues and the company’s applications couldn’t reach it anymore. The disk partition in it was also the SPOF. The company wanted the issue resolved without buying new physical shared storage.
Find out how StarWind was able to resolve the said issues without Enovade having to buy or repair anything hardware-related.
Each new VMware vSphere release introduces new features and functions in addition to fixing the drawbacks that may have been in the previous version. With each new one, you need to upgrade VMware Tools in all your VMs and check if you need to upgrade their VM compatibility, otherwise they won't have access to the desired perks.
Read the article by Vladan Seget, where he explains why updating VMware Tools is necessary, when to update VM compatibility and how to mass upgrade all your VMs simultaneously.
Being well-versed in which type of storage is best suitable for a particular task is a must for every sysadmin or IT manager. Such knowledge is necessary because the market is overflooded with different options. To help with that, we’ve uploaded a video on the most popular storage types, their pros and cons, new in 2019, and what to look for during purchasing.
Watch this video where our Solutions Engineer talks about modern storage media, 2020 tendencies, and choosing the best option for building or updating your infrastructure.
When people think “cybersecurity,” images will be the last thing to come to mind. Usually, users tend to focus on things like cyber-attacks, viruses, or malware. Well, regular images, depending on where they come from, their integrity, and the routing, can become a micro-gap in your security which can then result in a breach.
Read the full article by Benoit Voirin, a cybersecurity consultant, about using Snyk together with Azure Container Registry to scan images for known vulnerabilities or exposure.
Consumer expectations tend to grow with each year. Even in the farthest locations, customers expect to have the same quality of services as if plugged directly to HQ. Once, to do that, you’d need to deploy a data-center that would cost like a modest dwelling. Now, you can get it as a small two-node HCI solution from StarWind.
Read the new article from TechHQ about how StarWind makes HCI simple, accessible, cost-efficient, and effective for any Edge location.
It’s usually quite a chore to manage file servers by using VMs. Migrating between file servers in the cloud, enacting replication with DFS-R, and such would require using redundancy mechanisms. All this makes the implementation of file servers in Azure unnecessarily complex. Well, that ship has finally sailed!
Read the new article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, that discusses using Azure AD, AADDS, and storage accounts to implement file servers in Azure without any VMs
Město Přeštice, a local self-government institution in the Czech Republic, was experiencing inadmissible performance issues with its outdated IT infrastructure. Due to a limited budget, it needed a flexible solution with great vendor support that would ensure constant uptime and fault tolerance without having to incur heavy expenses on new physical shared storage.
Find out how Město Přeštice was able to achieve all that and more with a simple 2-node SDS solution from StarWind.
This webinar will focus on explaining the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and the benefits it offers for your infrastructure. Our Solutions Engineer will share his knowledge on ZFS, its features (inline data compression, inline block-level dedupe, end-to-end data integrity, CoW, and snapshots), RAIDZ, and when best to use ZFS.
Register now for the upcoming webinar and get practical knowledge about ZFS and how its features can help simplify and optimize the way you handle your infrastructure.
Having credits in Azure in advance is a great option that you choose how to unfold. You can invest in credits, allocate them to necessary features and tools, and set the billing. And to do that conveniently, Azure Cost Management is there to help. You can plan your finances, redistribute the billing, and see how cost-effective your choices are.
Read the article by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about using Azure Cost Management to budget your cloud resources smartly.
COVID-19 has created a challenge for every aspect of our lives. Staying home and safe is the best possible option in order to resolve the current crisis. That being said, in the past, you’d have to be present and hawk your infrastructure in case something happened. With StarWind VSAN and HCA, no such incidents are even possible.
Find out how StarWind allows you to have a truly fault-tolerant environment as well as monitor and manage its health and resources from any part of the globe.
Savronik Elektronik A.Ş., a Turkish defence and intelligent transportation systems manufacturer, had an IT infrastructure with dozens of physical SAN devices that took up a lot of space and required a lot of money to service them. The company was desperate to find reasonably priced virtual shared storage that would reduce the number of hardware resources and provide redundancy. With StarWind, Savronik Elektronik A.Ş. built a fail-safe environment at no extra costs.
Find out how Savronik Elektronik A.Ş. obtains redundancy with StarWind.
VMware vSAN clusters are typically aggregates of several ESXi hosts. Local disks with VM data are divided into groups there. It’s preferable that each disk’s load variance doesn’t reach 30%. If it does, there are two options: Automatic and Proactive rebalancing. Each of them has its own pros and cons; you decide which to choose.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, about the nuances of Automatic and Proactive Rebalancing in vSAN clusters and how to keep them “green.”
With all the global unfortunate healthcare events going on, we’ve ended up with much more free time on our hands than we’re used to. Perhaps, you’re looking for some light reading on an HCI solution to consider when life starts to resume its natural course? Then you may want to check out what VirtualizationHowTo has to recommend.
Read the article by Brandon Lee of VirtualizationHowTo on StarWind HCA All-Flash, saying that it “has included everything that is needed” from an HCI solution.
Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is a sync tool usually used to synchronize Active Directory accounts with the Office 365 environment. If the need to migrate to a new server emerges, you have to follow specific steps in strict order to migrate your AAD Connect tool first to avoid any synchronization issues.
Read the guide by Paolo Valsecchi of nolabnoparty.com in order to abide by the outlined procedure to migrate your AAD Connect to a new server without any problems.
Xpert Consultancy, a British managed IT service provider (MSP), had the Firestreamer software from Cristalink. The existing VTL did not allow getting rid of the expensive physical tape hardware platform completely and was incompatible with the latest version of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. StarWind eliminated costly tape backup processes and granted opportunities for Xpert Consultancy to reduce hardware costs significantly.
Find out how Xpert Consultancy solves compatibility issues, gets a professional 24/7 support system, and frees from the bulk of hardware.
With Azure Dedicated Host, you get the ability to isolate your compliance-related workload VMs, so that capacity isn’t shared to VMs catering to customers. You get a dedicated Hyper-V host that provides control over the mentioned workload separately, allowing to set the maintenance policies of the host. The service comes as a SaaS.
Read the article by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about Azure Dedicated Host to separate compliance and customer VMs without sacrificing the capacity.
Let’s stop pretending like Flash is significantly more expensive than hard drives, and HDDs are a better capacity option. After many analyses and calculations, we’ve decided to remodel our StarWind HCA line to be all-flash only. Now, you will get the perfect balance of vast capacity, stellar performance, and true cost-efficiency for a Hybrid price.
Check out our refreshed StarWind HCA All-Flash, and be sure to order a test drive and ask any questions you may have. Your sustainable and affordable HCI is already here!
We know how painful it is for people to let go of old habits and viewpoints, so we’ve prepared some light reading for you on the matter. It’s 12-year-old news that Flash is way more expensive than hard disks. Market research shows that $/Gb is virtually the same, but SSDs are x15 faster, have no access time and got 1% CPU overhead vs. HDDs.
See the details and figures for yourself in our new article that shows why spindle drives are a vestige of the past, and how Flash is infinitely better and cost-efficient.