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Worried about keeping your business data safe from ransomware and similar threats? Discover how to set up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as an immutable backup repository for Veeam B&R in just a few clicks
Follow the step-by-step guide by Vlad Savchenko, StarWind Pre-sales Engineer.

SabreTech Consulting LLC, a U.S.-based managed IT services provider (MSP), faced recurring storage outages and instability with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) in its production environment, posing a significant risk to its operations and client satisfaction. The company needed a stable and reliable storage solution to address its issues. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), SabreTech Consulting LLC builds a highly available and fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, optimizes its production environment, ensures consistent uptime, and minimizes storage outages, thereby enabling seamless delivery of services to its clients.

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vSphere 8 now offers the vMotion Application Notification feature, aimed at improving application migrations. Interested in the technical aspects?
Explore our guide for implementation details by Valdan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind.

Triada Networks, a U.S.-based IT solutions provider, encountered performance bottlenecks and scalability limitations within its existing IT infrastructure, particularly with Hyper-V hosts and direct-attached storage. The company required a scalable and performance-enhancing solution to address its IT challenges. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Triada Networks seamlessly builds a hyperconverged IT infrastructure and achieves improved performance, scalability, and operational efficiency, ultimately delivering enhanced business value to its clients.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/triada-networks-improves-its-operational-efficiency-by-creating-a-hyperconverged-it-environment-around-starwind-hci-appliance-hca/

Are you tired of overspending on storage solutions that don't quite fit your budget? We've done the research for you and compiled a comprehensive comparison of some of the top cloud storage providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi.

Find the perfect fit for your budget and storage needs in the new article by Kevin Soltow, a Storage Consultant, for StarWind.

The Psychiatric Hospital in Opava, the Czech Republic, faced limitations with its three physical servers and storage, coupled with scalability issues and insufficient data availability and security measures. The facility required a scalable and robust storage solution to increase disk capacity and improve data availability. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the Psychiatric Hospital in Opava moves to hyperconvergence and enhances data availability and security, thus ensuring uninterrupted access to its critical information systems.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/the-psychiatric-hospital-in-opava-goes-hyper-converged-with-starwind-vsan/

Whether you're migrating workloads or fortifying your disaster recovery (DR) strategy, the latest 8.8 release of VMware vSphere Replication has you covered.
Explore all the updates in the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind.

StarWind VTL achieves this by virtualizing the IBM TS3500 tape library, coupled with a built-in cloud gateway. Get implementation details of the resulting solution in our recent blog post.

Cork Supply USA, a California-based wine cork supplier, faced aging physical servers and limited redundancy, hindering its ability to support an upgraded enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The company required a solution that could modernize its aging IT infrastructure and integrate seamlessly with its ERP system. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance, Cork Supply USA builds a hyperconverged IT infrastructure, lays a robust foundation for ERP system implementation, and achieves enhanced flexibility, redundancy, and centralized management, ultimately bolstering its business efficiency.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/cork-supply-usa-gets-an-enterprise-resource-planning-erp-solution-with-starwind/

Hemplucid, a U.S.-based biotechnology company, had no existing IT infrastructure in place. The company needed a solution that could efficiently establish a highly available (HA) IT infrastructure from scratch. By leveraging StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Hemplucid creates an HA environment and enhances system reliability and performance while maintaining cost-effectiveness, thereby enabling its business operations 24/7.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/hemplucid-builds-its-infrastructure-together-with-starwind-vsan/

Dive into seamless user profile management with FSLogix in VMware Horizon! Learn how to provide a persistent area for machines like Instant Clones while managing user profiles efficiently.

Check out our comprehensive guide by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, specifically for StarWind.

Enter Engineering PTE Ltd., an Uzbek construction and engineering company, encountered compatibility issues within its IT infrastructure, resulting in equipment incompatibility and potential risks to data integrity. The company needed a storage solution to ensure compatibility, performance enhancement, and seamless data mirroring. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Enter Engineering PTE Ltd. effectively addresses the compatibility issues by seamlessly mirroring storage, achieves data integrity even during unexpected power-offs, and significantly improves performance through real-time replication and iSCSI MPIO capability.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/enter-engineering-pte-ltd-maintains-high-availability-ha-with-starwind-virtual-san-vsan-even-in-case-of-a-total-blackout/

Thick and Thin VM disks have been around for ages, yet there's always been some controversy regarding which method is better and whether there's any performance difference.

Discover the key differences and features of Thick and Thin disks, and choose the most optimal space allocation method for your environment in our latest article by Diana Abo Harmouch, a virtualization expert at StarWind.

Enovade, a Malaysian IT consulting company, had a small-scale IT infrastructure that encountered a challenge when hardware issues in the physical SAN rendered the virtual SAN inaccessible. The company required a robust storage solution with seamless integration capabilities to ensure uninterrupted virtual SAN access. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Enovade enables efficient SAN storage redesign through the user-friendly StarWind Web UI, receives expert support to swiftly address hardware problems, and ensures uninterrupted virtual SAN access and optimal application functionality.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/enovade-makes-its-physical-san-accessible-again-thanks-to-starwind-vsan/

Město Přeštice, a local self-government body in the Czech Republic, grappled with an aging IT infrastructure, relying on an unsupported HP LeftHand storage system and VMware ESXi hypervisor, resulting in persistent performance issues and a lack of scalability. The institution urgently needed a robust storage solution, seeking to replace outdated storage and alleviate performance challenges. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Město Přeštice seamlessly replaces its obsolete storage, resolves performance issues, and ensures a scalable and future-proof virtualized environment.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/mesto-prestice-modernizes-its-old-fashioned-environment-with-starwind-virtual-san-vsan/

Windows Admin Center (WAC) simplifies Windows server management with user-friendly web tools and seamless Azure integration.

Explore how WAC revolutionizes server tasks with the latest release in the article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind.

Sawejko Enterprises, a U.S.-based telecommunications company, lacked a clustering solution for VMware and Hyper-V hosts and was unable to afford traditional hardware-based shared storage. The company required cost-effective virtual shared storage to enhance reliability and attain uptime in its virtualized environment. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Sawejko Enterprises creates a 2-node high-availability (HA) cluster, ultimately elevating uptime up to 99.99% and overcoming the financial constraints associated with traditional hardware-based alternatives.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/increase-system-uptime-up-to-99-99-with-starwind/

Curious about the next frontier in data storage? Discover the key aspects of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), its benefits, and practical applications.

Read the NVMe-oF in-depth analysis in the new article by StarWind Pre-sales Engineer Anton Vovchuk.