AiT was looking for a solution to ensure redundancy for its customer. The client’s infrastructure was End-of-Life and had no proper virtualization. The absence of downtime was paramount for the client. By choosing StarWind, AiT was able to secure true redundancy for its client and also achieve higher cost-efficiency as well as better solution user-friendliness.

Find out how AiT was able to help its client experience constant application uptime without having to upgrade its entire EoL infrastructure thanks to StarWind.

For whatever reason, you may want to switch your storage account from your primary region to the secondary one. In Azure Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), there’s a feature that allows you to perform that action manually. There’s nothing overly complicated to it. The manual failover will take just a few minutes to conclude.

Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about how to perform a manual failover of an Azure storage account in a few easy steps.

Azure Backup Center was revealed during Microsoft Ignite 2020. It will be later released as a single-pane-of-glass management and monitoring tool for Azure Backup vaults. The solution will allow you to monitor and configure your backups, restore data, and set a certain level of compliance, all from a single GUI.

Read the short guide by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, about Azure Backup Center, its benefits and how you can preview it today.

Having an Oracle Database on hand for testing purposes is a handy endeavor. For example, if you want to test software integration capabilities or work with PL/SQL scripts. We’re not talking about configuring a full-blown production-ready Oracle. Just something useful and easy to have for you to test the work stuff that you need.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, a K2 and Microsoft specialist, on how to set up an on-premises Oracle Database testing instance on WS 2019 without breaking your neck.

To ensure that modern students and teachers have access to all the necessary applications and materials, even remotely, profound infrastructure upgrades are needed. But the budget and chances are often tight. Thankfully, StarWind provides High Availability on common hardware starting with 2 nodes already!

Find out today how you can forget about buying physical shared storage and use just one lightweight StarWind solution to secure your systems’ constant uptime and your files and apps being always available, even during maintenance, for an accessible price.

WizNucleus, an American information technology and services provider, had 2 standalone servers with local physical storage and VMware ESXi on top. The company was keen to create a highly available and fault-tolerant IT environment without spending a fabulous amount of money on buying new hardware. With StarWind, WizNucleus builds a two-node failover cluster and achieves high availability (HA) without additional hardware cost.

Find out how WizNucleus creates a fault-tolerant IT environment without replacing existing hardware and ensures the safety of its mission-critical data in any unforeseen circumstances with StarWind.

It’s time-consuming and, frankly, annoying to browse through various news feeds to be fully hands-on on all the changes and releases. Microsoft knows it, too, so it integrated a feature into Logic Apps Designer that informs you of the updates to where you need them. Choose a period, RSS feed items, mailbox, teams, or twitter, and you’re all set!

Read the short post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to configure your desired Azure and AKS updates notifications to your desired messaging platform.

It’s a misconception that only a hacker attack is the biggest threat to cybersecurity. In reality, employees not abiding by basic security protocols during their routine work is the biggest “backdoor.” Making sure that all roles, privileges, and systems are set to avoid any outside access is paramount for ensuring your company’s solid daily cybersecurity.

Read the article by Benoit Voirin, a cybersecurity consultant, explaining which and why all the bases of IAM should be covered by security specialists and employees alike.

PowerShell can help you out a lot when it comes to managing and automating your vSphere-related tasks. Instead of doing everything manually and wasting time on the routine, like everyone else, you can use a set of scripts to automate things like VM deployment, etc. Free up your day to have more space to take a breath and perform other, more pressing work.

Watch this StarWind video on how to use PowerShell to simplify and speed up your vSphere routine tasks and manage your environment more effectively.

VMware presented vRealize AI Cloud during VMworld 2020 as its next step in cloud automation. The tool is designed for automated performance optimization as part of the Self-Driving Data Center concept. As defined by the vendor, it’s meant to monitor infrastructure performance and apply machine learning to improve performance as workloads change.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, about the idea behind, features, and prospective benefits of the new VMware vRealize AI Cloud.

For a number of reasons, you may want to wipe your Azure subscription clean of all the policies you have. Whether it’s because you're testing and demo-ing something often, or because the subscription is too old and your working algorithms need resetting. Although it sounds like a hassle, you only need to enter two commands.

Read the short post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to clean your Azure subscription policies in just a few moments.

If you're new to setting up stretched clusters, you may find that connecting two geographically disparate hosts into a single cluster is not a simple task. To help you succeed in it, the webinar will talk about the stretched cluster requirements, nuances behind its work, as well as main aspects of its proper configuration.

Register now to learn about the most important insights when it comes to stretched cluster implementation.

Dell markets its EMC OpenManage extension for Windows Admin Center as a unified solution for ensuring Azure Stack HCI updates and compliance. Unfortunately, that is not the case since Dell’s extension is not in line with the current Azure hardware and software compliance matrix, and it’s not in tune with the latest WAC versions.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, about the issues with Dell EMC OpenManage extension for WAC, where they stem from, and what to look out for.

The Westone Manor Hotel, an American SMB hotel, had an IT infrastructure with one Hyper-V server. So, server failure automatically resulted in application shutdown and loss of revenue. Being open 24/7, the hotel needed constant high availability (HA) of its mission-critical applications for taking card payments. However, a purchase of expensive SAN equipment was out of the question for an SMB because of a strict IT budget. With StarWind, the Westone Manor Hotel builds a two-node failover cluster and gets a 24/7 smooth operation of its IT infrastructure.

Find out how the Westone Manor Hotel serves its clients on time due to a fault-tolerant and reliable IT infrastructure powered by StarWind.

The first round of StarWind giving back to the community was a success. The prize is on its way to the first lucky winner. Congrats to them! But now it's time for Round 2. This time, you will have the chance to win a SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB M.2 NVMe — a serious flash performance boost for your personal home office.

Learn more about the new giveaway and try out your fate by clicking on the link below and proceeding to StarWind’s Subreddit for details.

Storage performance testing isn't something one should take lightly, and VMware admins know this like any other. There are way too many tools to choose from, and you have no guarantee that you will get what you need. Or, at least, it used to be so, until VMware has released a new tool, Storage Performance Tester.

Read the article by Vladan Seget, IT and Virtualization consultant, to find out how to test your storage performance with the Storage Performance Tester from VMware.

COVID-19 made it clear that resilient and tightly secure IT systems are paramount in saving the patients’ lives and ensuring the healthcare facilities’ sustainable work. StarWind has the necessary solutions to cost-efficiently achieve those goals and more.

Whether you need to build infrastructure from the ground-up or boost an existing one, we know how to do it smoothly and effectively.

Find out today how you can ensure patient records security, medical application high constant uptime and unwavering fault-tolerance together with StarWind.

We’ve saved you a lot of time, effort, and frustration by compiling all the essential steps to take if you want to upgrade from Horizon series 7.x to Horizon 2006. The article covers the compatibility matrix, which features to uninstall before proceeding with the upgrade, what backup precautions to perform, and all the other good stuff.

Read the new guide by Paolo Valsecchi of nolabnoparty.com that covers the entire process of upgrading to VMware Horizon 2006 from versions 7.x step-by-step.

If you're new to setting up stretched clusters, you may find that connecting two geographically disparate hosts into a single cluster is not a simple task. To help you succeed in it, the video will talk about the stretched cluster requirements, nuances behind its work, as well as main aspects of its proper configuration.

Watch this StarWind video and learn about the most important insights when it comes to stretched cluster implementation.

With cybersecurity nowadays, you can never be too sure. And having to maintain it at scale can prove quite straining. Azure Sentinel, a cloud-native software imbued with AI functions, can help simplify that process for you. Have a birds-eye view of your entire HCI via a convenient dashboard and benefit from Microsoft’s years of cyber intelligence experience.

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, about Azure Sentinel and how it can help you organize and survey even a large enterprise neatly and stress-free.