VMware introduced quite a good chunk of innovations this time: performance has been improved dramatically, memory pre-copy technology completely re-architected. But the true novelty lies in new Enhanced vMotion Capabilities (EVC) for GPU, making it a real powerhouse for intense workloads (graphic software, ML/DL-workloads, etc.)

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, discussing the most prominent positive changes introduced into vMotion in the recent vSphere 7.0 Update 1.

Greenwood Village South (GVS), an American not-for-profit organization, had an issue with providing around-the-clock access to customer data due to its aging IT infrastructure. Obsolete servers did not allow for scalability and flexibility in IT infrastructure management, which made it impossible to offer high-quality health care services in general. With StarWind, GVS achieves the most flexibility, scalability, and redundancy at a feasible price point, thereby intensifying its customer service.

Find out how GVS gets constant access to client data due to a fault-tolerant IT infrastructure operated with StarWind

Keeping up with priorities, subscriptions, resource groups, and other policies in a hyper-converged environment can be quite challenging. Azure Policy helps receive an aggregated view of your environment via a compliance dashboard. It simplifies enforcing standards and allows you to effortlessly and minutely address any issue.

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, about Azure Policy and how it can help you simplify and make compliance enforcement more effective.

Veritas is a great offer for storing Office 365 data without any hard commitment. It doesn’t need any backup infrastructure since it comes as software-as-a-service (SaaS). In addition, your data will be encrypted, pursuant to GDPR rules, while it’s stored at the Veritas Datacenter in Denmark. Finally, the price for unlimited storage here is as good as it gets.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, explaining the benefits behind Veritas SaaS Backup for your Office 365 data and how to configure it properly.

Exhibit Options, an American full-service, custom design, and fabrication exhibit builder, had the issue of an unscaled IT infrastructure that did not allow for fast customer service. For this reason, it was looking for a solution that would balance the increasing workloads and provide the desired flexibility. With StarWind, Exhibit Options gets an immediate boost to its IT infrastructure scalability and significantly improves customer service.

Find out how Exhibit Options gains agility in customer service thanks to the IT infrastructure powered by StarWind

It’s wrong to think that nothing can hijack your data while you migrate it between your hosts across hybrid environments and public clouds. One may never be too sure in securing sensitive traffic at network endpoints is necessary at all times. That’s why you shouldn’t overlook encrypted vMotion and use its great capabilities that are already there, in vSphere 7.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) on Encrypted vMotion, it’s encryption type and states, and other capabilities vital for your migration security.

Having renowned rating agencies’ opinions on a designated product or vendor is important. But seeing what the actual users have to say summed up is also necessary to even out the scales. Per our understanding, one of Gartner’s reports does just that: accumulates professional peer feedback on the most popular HCI vendors and neatly summarizes it into actionable figures.
Read the explanation behind the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ for HCI and how peers rate HCI vendors on the market.

Azure DevOps is a very powerful product that encompasses the whole application lifecycle, including DevOps capabilities. Release Pipelines is one of the features that helps automate the testing and delivery of desired applications to end-users on multiple stages. But to use it properly, you should know how to couple it with PowerShell Tasks.

Read the short article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, on how to pass arguments to your scripts in Azure DevOps Pipelines with the help of PowerShell Tasks.

The issue of providing block-level storage for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is quite mysterious. Presently, iSCSI isn’t available in WSL out-of-the-box. But the good news is that you can enable it, although it’s not a straightforward path. WSL2, having a real custom Linux kernel inside, can help you initiate and complete the process.

Read the new step-by-step guide by Oleg Pankevysh, a StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer, on how to enable block storage devices in WSL2 now.

Finally, you won’t have to use Fling software to use the Advanced VMware Cross vCenter vMotion capability (XVM). The feature has been introduced as part of vSphere in the recent vCenter Server 7 U1c update. Now, you can bulk-migrate VMs between vCenter Server instances without both of them being part of the same SSO.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) on the new exciting abilities of Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion, like liberated migration between different SSO domains and others.

Getting comprehensive information on each and every virtual machine (VM) is a pain. To make things easier, Microsoft introduced Azure Resource Graph. You can now use a simple PowerShell script and receive contextual VM data at scale across your given set of subscriptions. No need to surf through every single one separately anymore.

Read the short guide by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, on how to use PowerShell with Azure Graph API to get all the information on your VMs that you need.

After announcing our last winner, it's now time for Round 4! The stakes are getting higher and this time you will try out your luck at winning a Thermaltake Toughpower 1250W 80+ Titanium Power Supply!

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

MTE Logistix has been provisioning warehousing and logistics services in Western Canada for over 95 years. To continue its signature individual approach to servicing clients as the business developed, the corporation needed to ensure its IT infrastructure could retain stellar levels of performance without any downtime or hardware restrictions.

Find out how MTE Logistix was able to make sure it could successfully continue exercising its client-oriented approach in offering various logistics services as the company grew thanks to StarWind.

No one needs to tell that the efficiency and variety of security measures that keep your system up and running have gone quite up in recent years. However, you can't be ready for everything, so it's good to make sure your backup's got your back, in this case - for Office 365 users.

Read an article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft Technology specialist, on how to back up your Office 365 with Veeam Backup.

StarWind HCA has already got quite a reputation, but we believe that the sky's a limit. Our team of experts spares no time on continually improving the product so that our clients could have all their needs met with our 100% turnkey solution that utilizes Intel OPTANE, built specifically to deliver excellent performance.

Find out more about StarWind HCA and its performance, capacity, and value in this newsflash.

Veeam Backup & Replication V11 introduced the ability to build your own immutable, hardened backup repository. There’s no more need to use third-party compatible solutions, like WORM disk storage or others. Now, you can do that using any server with storage that meets the requirements plus several supported Linux distros and XFS.

Read Part 1 of 3, an article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, that introduces the hardened repository, why it’s needed, how to set up an Ubuntu Linux server for that purpose, and which security measures to take to harden the repository.

Part 1 discussed what a hardened repository was, how Veeam B&R V11 had everything to achieve that, and how to set up Linux for those purposes. Now, you will learn how to add the Linux server to Veeam managed servers and how to add immutable repositories. You’ll also learn about incompatible configs that Veeam will block if you try to use them.

Read Part 2 of 3, an article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, about the next steps you need to take in order to successfully harden your Veeam Linux Repository.

Part 2 discussed adding the Linux server to Veeam managed servers and adding immutable repositories, along with incompatible configs that Veeam’ll block if you try using them. Today, you will learn about the entire configuration deeper: how immutability works, scenarios with bad actors, how they can succeed, and how to test if all is working fine.

Read Part 3 of 3, an article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, about what final steps to take to understand whether your hardened repository is configured and backed up properly.

Here at StarWind, our primary perspective is getting the job done and meeting our clients' high standards. That's why today's news is getting on the Best of Storage 2021 list from TrustRadius - one of the biggest software reviews platforms out there.

Find out why StarWind VSAN has been awarded as the top Best Customer Support – Software-Defined Storage (SDS).

Learning how to configure Veeam Backup for Office 365 is great but restoring an O365 tenant is a whole other story. To follow this article and complete the necessary actions, you’ll need to install the explorer console provided with Veeam Backup for O365 on your server. Then, a user-friendly interface will take you through the restoration procedure.

Check out the new guide by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, explaining the entire process of restoring your Office 365 data from Veeam Backup for O365 step-by-step.