Software and feature licensing is often complex, requiring in-depth expertise to be licensed correctly and efficiently. Microsoft ecosystem is no exception.
Discover all the nuances of Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V VM licensing in the article by Dmitriy Dolgiy, a freelance storage consultant.
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Garland Power & Light (GP&L), an electric utility from Texas, faced a problem with its production process - its Dell PowerEdge FX2 modular chassis needed shared storage to allow both blades to access storage sleds simultaneously. Thankfully, StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) was the perfect solution for GP&L due to its positive reputation and customer experience. Using StarWind vSAN, GP&L was able to build a virtual storage pool and replicate data between storage sleds, providing both blades with access to storage and ensuring uninterrupted power distribution to its customers.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
Veeam Software continues to work on enhancing its flagship products by introducing new features and upgrading old ones. The latest major update, Veeam Backup & Replication v12, has been in development for two years and offers a lot of improvements in versatility and functionality.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization technology professional, to find out what new features have been introduced in Veeam Backup and Replication v12.
FAFCO, an American solar water heating and thermal storage heating manufacturer, was running a bunch of standalone servers that didn't provide the required level of IT infrastructure performance. The company was looking for a cost-efficient shared storage solution that would allow it to build a hyperconverged infrastructure and meet its business needs. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), FAFCO moves to hyperconvergence, improves the performance and reliability of its applications, and ensures uninterrupted service delivery to its customers.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
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Read the latest article by virtualization expert Brandon Lee for StarWind to discover more about the features and capabilities of Windows 365 Frontline.
MUM Industries Inc., a U.S.-based electrical enclosures and industrial double-diaphragm manufacturer, had its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system performance bottlenecked by an all-HDD SAN. An extra SAN or deploying a dedicated all-flash solution would be overkill for the company’s needs and would be pretty expensive on the whole. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), MUM Industries Inc. deploys a high availability (HA) cluster, adopts hyperconvergence, and boosts its ERP system performance.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
vSphere DRS is a super useful workload management feature in vSphere. The new Cluster Rules Manager (CRM) VMware Fling takes one step further, allowing to manage vSphere DRS rules and related features from a separate purpose-built UI.
Read the article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, to delve into the features and benefits of Cluster Rules Manager and find out how to install and configure it.
Applied Software Technology, a U.S.-based software development company, faced challenges with its bloated physical infrastructure, leading to downtime and data loss, increased costs, and decreased productivity. The company needed to cut down the amount of physical equipment and go to virtualization. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Applied Software Technology deploys a high availability (HA) cluster, thus meeting the growing demands of its software development projects and resulting in uninterrupted services, increased productivity, and reduced costs.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
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Arbeit Software, a U.S.-based telecommunications company, didn’t have a virtual SAN solution and couldn’t stand up any hypervisors, so it was unable to expand its infrastructure and utilize its resources fully. The company was looking for a budget-friendly solution with excellent support. This solution was found in StarWind. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Arbeit Software implements a hyperconverged infrastructure, ensures high availability (HA), unlocks faster time-to-market, and increased agility.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
Are you struggling with secure connectivity to your Azure virtual machines? In our latest blog entry article, we make a case for a centralized, secured, and restricted Azure Bastion deployment in an Azure Virtual WAN spoke. This solution offers many benefits, including centralized deployment, traffic control, and network security.
Learn more in the new article by Microsoft MVP Didier Van Hoye for StarWind.
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Storing data in hot storage costs more than cool or archive storage. Data that is not frequently accessed can be moved to blob storage, reducing the cost of storing data. In Azure, Lifecycle management for your storage account can help you configure the policies and automate the process without much effort.
Learn to save costs by smartly managing cloud storage with this underutilize Microsoft feature in the new guide by virtualization expert Florent Appointare for StarWind.
Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a U.S.-based non-profit organization, was running virtualized non-clustered Hyper-V servers and seeking to create highly available (HA) storage to promote the environment’s resiliency. Yet, being a non-profit organization, ERS had a limited budget for that purpose. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), ERS deploys an HA storage cluster, facilitates scaling up and out according to the organization’s needs, and implements redundant storage for its online learning platform at a very attractive price.
You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.
VMware vSphere and various KVM hypervisor flavors are both popular virtualization platforms. However, their VM formats are incompatible, and users often look for an easy way to migrate a virtual machine from one hypervisor to another.
Find out how to migrate a VMware VM to KVM in three clicks with StarWind V2V Converter in the new article by StarWind Solutions Engineer Alex Khorolets.
There are a few things to know about upgrading from vSphere 6.5 and older versions to the latest ones.
Read the article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, to learn more about the proper upgrade path from older vSphere versions to vSphere 8.0.
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There are multiple ways to send emails from Azure. But did you know you could send emails from any mailbox in your organization using REST API calls?
Learn more in the new guide by Microsoft MVP Nicolas Prigent for StarWind.