Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure is Microsoft’s attempt to build a hybrid HCI solution that’s aimed to be an everything-in-one. Among others, the new release will have simplified deployment via Windows Admin Center and Azure Portal, a specialized host operating OS, improved resync duration for S2D, and a one-click stack upgrade.
Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, dwelling on the most exciting updates that are to come with the new version of Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
Connection throughput is key to ensure that your demanded IOPS volumes are processed at the necessary speed. While StarWind VSAN allows for HA with two nodes already, networking diversification and configuration is key to ensuring it. Knowing your IOPS and correct connectivity infrastructure will let you have the best experience.
Read the article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) to learn some useful tips about StarWind VSAN two-node direct connect networking setup.
VMware Carbon Black is a next-gen cloud-native endpoint protection platform (EPP). This solution doesn't only detect threats on the workstation level, analyze them in the cloud, and take action. It is a complex system for monitoring network connections and applications that exhibit abnormal activity, ensuring your desktop infrastructure security.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, that discusses all the details of Carbon Black and what benefits it can bring to your business' cybersecurity.
Area Agency on Aging Region 9, an Ohio non-profit, was looking for a way to achieve HA for its existing infrastructure without buying new shared storage and avoiding vendor lock-in. Thanks to StarWind, it was able not only to achieve constant app uptime and fault tolerance but was able to acquire freedom of scalability and environment flexibility, too.
Find out how AAA-9 was able to save a ton of money while achieving stellar performance and environment resiliency with its existing hardware and hypervisor thanks to StarWind.
Whether you have already switched to VMware vSphere 7 or not, new knowledge never hurt anybody. There are various novelties that have been introduced in this version. For example, this article will cover tips related to increasing Shell session timeout, using Datacenter CLI and file-level backup for vCSA, and resetting vCSA root password.
Read the article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) to learn a few pro pieces of advice when it comes to using vCenter and vCenter for Server Appliance 7.
VIP Technology Solutions Group, an American full-service provider of technology solutions, had an IT environment with individual non-clustered servers and Microsoft Hyper-V on top. A lack of a failover cluster affected the integrity and safety of the company’s data. The company was looking for an affordable solution for building a hyperconverged fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with proactive support included. With StarWind, VIP Technology Solutions Group got a hyperconverged turnkey solution for creating a failover cluster as well as the ability to host customer data with high availability always maintained.
Find out how VIP Technology Solutions Group creates a fault-tolerant IT environment at an affordable price and gains confidence in private cloud hosting with StarWind
Time is of the essence and, sometimes, routine stuff takes away from important tasks. That is why StarWind introduces automation for the deployment of StarWind VSAN for vSphere. You can now pre-set the desired configurations for your virtual machine (VM) deployment, thus making more room for creativity and productivity.
Read the guide by Alex Bykovsky, StarWind’s solutions architect, explaining how to achieve automated VM deployment in StarWind VSAN for vSphere.
HPE StoreVirtual VSA goes End-of-Life, meaning its users will be left without any support in case issues arise. StarWind VSAN offers free assisted migration, alleviating the stress and manual burden from HPE VSA customers. The webinar will introduce the special offer and cover the technicalities related to planning and executing the migration successfully.
Register now and learn about the balance of performance, cost-efficiency, and solid support you can get by choosing the assisted migration from HPE VSA to StarWind Virtual SAN.
Part 1 of the topic considered certain basic options, like configuring screen sharing in Ubuntu and connecting to Ubuntu desktop using the VCN Viewer client. However, if you want to connect to an Ubuntu machine using some sort of virtual desktop client without opening a session locally, you may want to look into XRDP Server.
Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, a K2 and Microsoft specialist, about using XRDP Server, an open-source RDP implementation, to establish remote work for your Ubuntu.
A unique position of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) grants both advantages and disadvantages. Initially, it is not efficient for such business to deploy resource-hungry and overwhelmingly extended infrastructure, which turns out to be too costly. However, on the other hand, StarWind helps to solve issues such as significant application downtime, old hardware, diverse power cycling, ransomware vulnerability, and inefficient backup solutions with building an IT environment ideally suited for each separate case at a reasonable cost.
Read our rubric Other to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
There isn’t always time or possibility to mess with scripts. Thanks to Azure Logic Apps, you can automate and orchestrate your infrastructure or application deployment without writing a single line of code. And Microsoft Graph can be used to assist with exposing REST APIs and client libraries to access data on a wide set of Microsoft 365 services.
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, about using Microsoft Graph and Azure Logic Apps to ease workflow orchestration across your enterprises.
The video reveals cluster architectures that most probably will lead to production environment failure and data loss. It also dwells on the details of the most common mistakes that are made during the building of production clusters and reviews the most common unwanted configurations. While people always talk about best practices, it’s useful to know the worst ones as well.
Watch this StarWind video to learn how to avoid bad production cluster designs and secure your mission-critical data from 100% failures now.
Nobody knows what is needed for an IT infrastructure better than IT companies. Although one may find it odd that in such conditions said companies still seek IT services, it makes perfect sense. IT industry is oriented explicitly at their clientele and meeting their needs at maximum effort is the industry's top priority. Find out how to make sure that your feet don't fail you!
Read our rubric Information Technology to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved:
The global lockdown has skyrocketed VDIs and remote client access through the roof. Ensuring that the remote working process is both performant and secure is key. Horizon 7 is one such tool, which relies on encrypted connections and different authentication protocols, assuring safe and controlled access to physical computers at the office.
Read the guide by Paolo Valsecchi of nolabnoparty.com about the benefits of VMware Horizon 7 and how to configure it for your office’s work-from-home needs.
An IT infrastructure of a healthcare organization relies heavily on its equipment, for many reasons. This equipment, in turn, requires high quality standards to keep such environment up and running. Electronic medical record (EMR) contain patients' medical information, CT scanners perform medical imaging, and it all needs high availability, fault tolerance, and storage cost-efficiency. Now you have a possibility to improve your IT infrastructure at a reasonable cost!
Read our rubric Healthcare to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Ubiquiti recently released its Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro), which is a multifaceted hardware platform. It executes various features, including firewall, switch, router, SDN, or camera management. Unifi Controller, a software, allows you to handle your Ubiquiti network and even establish a VPN with Azure for hybrid scenarios.
Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, explaining how to establish a VPN between your Azure and UDM-Pro for more environment versatility and diversity.
Yet another appreciation from the customers of StarWind Virtual SAN! TrustRadius is a platform where validated professionals leave product reviews and, based on their opinion, StarWind VSAN received the Top Rated 2020 badge in the software-defined storage category. We are thankful for your trust and we’ll continue to deliver upon it.
Check out what exactly our customers have to say and maybe you’ll find the answers to some of the deliberations you’ve been having.
If you are a VMware ESXi 7.0 user, you might bump into something called the Purple Screen of Death (PSOD). This happens when the VMkernel of your host experiences a critical error and terminates all running VMs. Dump Collector, a VCSA support tool, enables saving the VMkernel memory to a network server to recover it if needed.
Read the article by Vladan Seget of ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) to learn about the benefits of ESXi Dump Collector and how to configure the tool in your environment.
Azure Front Door, a scalable and secure entry point for web applications and global HTTP(s) load balancer, has been available in GA over a year now. To that end, you can use the tool for multiple versatile scenarios. Use it, for instance, with Web/Mobile Apps, Cloud Services, and VMs – or combine it with on-prem services for hybrid deployments and smooth cloud migration.
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, about Azure Front Door and the benefits you can receive from the versatility of its services.
If your business is in finance, you already know that to manage time, money, and resources, you need to keep your applications highly available and performing at the required level. Scalability, high availability, performance, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and data backup policy are vital in the financial industry, so don't miss your chance to keep them alive and well.
Read our rubric Finance to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Azure Blueprints has been available in preview for more than a year now, but not many people have gotten around to understand its use. It’s a neat tool for creating a “blueprint” of a repeatable set of Azure resources to organize environments quickly. Define your preferences so that routine resources management becomes easier.
Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about using Azure Blueprints to help manage your subscriptions by giving them base and connectivity.
Dell Live Optics is a tool that can help you gather and neatly visualize comprehensive data on your IT resources status. You'll be able to see the workload intensity they experience clearer and act on it timely. This video will explain how to properly run the solution, collect the necessary data, and use the resulting reports to understand if and where you need modernization.
Watch the StarWind video to develop a better understanding of your IT environment thanks to Dell Live Optics.
Nobody’s perfect, and storage admins aren’t, too. The upcoming webinar will reveal cluster architectures that most probably will lead to production environment failure and data loss. It will explain in detail the most common mistakes that are made during building production clusters and review unwanted configurations.
Register now and learn how to avoid bad production cluster designs and secure your mission-critical data from any failures.
Every contemporary organization should have a disaster recovery plan (DRP) in place to ensure data safety and business continuity. With the accessibility of present-day cloud services, luckily, setting up a valid DRP isn’t that complex or expensive. Azure offers one such service that’ll keep your apps and workloads running even during outages.
Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, describing how to implement a DRP via Windows Admin Center by using Azure Site Recovery.
The world is moving forward every second, so you have to keep moving if you want to make history and not stand aside from it. According to Ben Franklin, nothing is better than investing in knowledge, hence the necessity of educational institutions in the latest tech. However, a lot of things usually stand in the way, such as strict budget, limited application uptime, vulnerable data, and obsolete hardware. StarWind can remove these obstacles so you can keep your pace.
Read our rubric Education to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved:
PBS Systems, a Canadian dealership vendor, had multiple separate storage systems and different JOBs. Aging hardware and the need to turn to different vendors for maintenance made the system complex, unreliable, and costly. The company was looking for a solution that would consolidate storage systems, provide redundancy, and improve performance. With StarWind, PBS Systems got one high-end storage system and achieved zero downtime.
Find out how PBS Systems improves storage performance and increases uptime to 100% with StarWind.
Contemporary Enterprise-grade environments have all-out unstoppable demands. Apart from exceptional redundancy and uptime, such infrastructures need impeccable backup. It must be in a hardened, non-domain joined setup that’s independent of the fabrics and workloads it protects, abide by the 3-2-1 rule, and have a small footprint.
Read the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, about Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repositories (SOBR), the perfect backup target solution for such strict requirements.
Everybody stuck with technically and morally obsolete IT infrastructure usually thinks that their problem is unprecedented. There is some truth to this because each situation has a lot of factors, but there is nothing new under the sun. The chances are that your problem is actually easy to be dealt with. You can get yourself acquainted with the continuously renewed listing of cases wherein StarWind helps numerous businesses having similar issues.
Read our rubric Solutions by industries to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
If Azure’s built-in roles didn’t fit your needs perfectly but you still tried to adapt because you dreaded messing around in PowerShell to fix it, then this news is for you. Azure role-based access control (RBAC) can now be used directly from Azure Portal to assign your desired custom roles at subscription and resource group scopes.
Read the post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about using the neat new feature that’s located in Azure Access Control (IAM).
As a flagship of industry, VMware knows better than anyone a simple recipe for staying on top. If you want to grow, you need to keep going. The latest release of VMware vSphere proves this well enough. So, let's take a look under the hood what exactly this new VMware vSphere 7 has to offer!
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization technology professional, and check the most important new features in VMware vSphere 7!