Since the end of the global lockdown is nowhere in sight, you have to be able to work effectively and securely from anywhere. To better accommodate that, VMware recently rolled out the new updates for its flagship VDI suite, Horizon 8. There’s a lot to talk about: HTML Access by Default, New Deployment Options, REST API, Digital Watermark, and more!

Read the new article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) about the most important updates that come with Horizon 8, which you might want to take a closer look at.

Nexans Autoelectric, a global automobile electronics manufacturer, was looking to virtualize its physical environment. The goal was to eliminate the need to pile up costly proprietary components and ensure environment resiliency and constant application uptime. The company was able to achieve all that and save good money on top of it.

Find out how Nexans Autoelectric was able to achieve infrastructure resiliency and flexibility, and why it’s decided to choose StarWind as the foundation for its future datacenters.

Whatever your problem severity. Whatever your license. Whatever your company size. StarWind ProActive Premium Support means a dedicated team of engineers that are just a click away from helping you. Response time SLA, 1 hour or less. Automatic ticketing system connects you to your support team anytime worldwide.

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The previous article talked about using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to orchestrate containers for your applications. But to use your fresh-out-the-oven apps effectively, you mustn't forget about tight cybersecurity. Azure Application Gateway is one such service that can help you protect the websites you use for application operation.

Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about how to use Application Gateway as Ingress Controller and website application firewall (WAF).

Among other new features, Azure Stack HCI brings the ability to create a stretched cluster. As a result, you’ll be able to unify geographically disparate host servers more effectively to ensure better performance. The only thing is that until Microsoft enables the feature’s deployment via an extension in WAC (coming soon), you'll have to take a bit more steps to do that.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, about how to properly deploy an Azure Stack HCI stretched cluster from Windows Admin Center now.

Previously, we talked about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and using Application Gateway as an Ingress controller and website application firewall (WAF). Now that we’ve got that out of the way, we should continue to strengthen the security of your AKS-related website by obtaining a digital certificate to enable HTTPS.

Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about how to get HTTPS access via Let’s Encrypt and how to integrate it with AKS and Application Gateway.

Your HCI can result in lower performance if your hardware and StarWind SDS aren't configured correctly. It will also mean that your hardware potential is not used to its best. The webinar will explain how to optimally configure your hardware (storage, networking) and showcase proper StarWind VSAN settings for Hyper-V and vSphere to achieve maximum performance.

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Now that we’ve discussed how to use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and protect its related websites using Application Gateway and Let’s Encrypt, it’s time to perform! You obviously want to ensure that users are having the best experience with your AKS applications, which means that securing high availability whatever their geographic location is key.

Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about how to make your AKS web applications highly available as easy as 1-2-3.

American Care, Inc. had a mixed VMware/Windows IT environment with one backup and two primary hosts that did not allow for fault tolerance and high availability. The company wanted to standardize its IT infrastructure on Windows Server and build a failover Hyper-V cluster. With StarWind, American Care, Inc. moves to hyperconvergence, creates a fault-tolerant and highly available Hyper-V cluster, and eliminates the complexities of VMware administration.

Find out how American Care, Inc. ensures medical data safety and constant availability, saving over $20K on IT infrastructure maintenance and administration with StarWind.

Minimize the hardware footprint at your restaurant chain links by getting a pre-built 2-node hyper-converged platform that ensures 99.9999% uptime and fault tolerance. StarWind All-Flash HyperConverged Appliance offers datacenter power enclosed in a small 2U rack monitored 24/7/365 by included ProActive Premium Support.

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The brand new version of the K2 Connect component for the K2 5.4 platform has arrived! The update introduces the long-awaited support of clean K2 V5 environments without the need for in-place upgrades from legacy versions. The installation dependency on K2 Designer for Visual Studio from the K2 blackpearl 4.7 client tools is no more.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, a K2 and Microsoft specialist, which includes an overview of the recent major updates for K2 Connect and installation walkthrough.

Let’s talk about an issue of having your Kubernetes namespace blocked with terminating status. The problem may arise during an attempt to remove a namespace in Kubernetes. To terminate a namespace properly and avoid this scenario, a certain command in a more updated version of kubectl should be used.

Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to remove a Kubernetes namespace blocked with Terminating status.

VMware recently announced a major upgrade for its vSphere — 7 U1. vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) will come to receive a lot of new abilities. vSphere will also be able to run Kubernetes clusters without vCloud Foundation (vCF), vSAN will get HCI Mesh, and a whole host of other features will be introduced as per user feedback.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) discussing the most notable changes that are expected to come to vSphere in late October 2020.

International Data Corporation (IDC) has recently issued its Vendor Profile on StarWind. The Profile describes StarWind as squarely positioned for the market’s demands, mean product pricing, and other useful data on the topic. The document also includes an informative overview of and projections for the HCI market for the next five years.

Read the given IDC Vendor Profile to learn about the actual figures and trends behind the HCI market and StarWind Software for now and the near future.

StarWind presents Genetec and Milestone certified building blocks that combine storage, compute, networking, backup, and simplistic management UI for all components.

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Monitoring an HCI can be a real pain because of having to shuffle through multiple UIs, each responsible for a different stat. That’s why HCI vendors continuously aim to perfect their options for control. To simplify your Azure Stack HCI monitoring, you can enable Azure Monitor via Windows Admin Center, with its in-built rules, or create your own.

Read the short guide by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, about how to enable Azure Monitor for Azure Stack HCI via Windows Admin Center.

In case your storage and networking hardware settings, as well as StarWind SDS, are not optimized, it can result in lower performance leaving the available hardware potential unused. This video will explain how to optimally configure your hardware (storage, networking) and showcase proper StarWind VSAN settings for Hyper-V and vSphere to achieve maximum performance.

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Ensuring constant uptime for the ERP at your head office and your individual shops is a must. But how can you do that without separated storage nodes, bulky data centers, and multiple vendors? Easy! By choosing StarWind HyperConverged Appliance: compute, networking, storage, and software unified in a small box; 2-/3-way replication; 24/7/365 ProActive Support and more!

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Cases like Meltdown and Spectre showed that minuscule flaws in hardware-layer security can become serious breaches in another person's keen eyes. AMD’s SEV-ES and latest SEV-SNP exist to protect guest OS by encrypting all CPU register content. So, if your hypervisor is compromised, it won’t be able to access any guest OS data.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, discussing AMD’s tools to help you make your virtualized environment’s hardware layer security airtight.