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Oleg Pankevych
Oleg Pankevych
StarWind Solutions Architect. Oleg has over 10 years of experience in the industry, supporting large enterprises, as well as designing data center solutions for a wide range of customers.
Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • December 19, 2024

How to Build a Highly Available Minimalist 2-Node Proxmox VE Cluster

Proxmox VE is a fantastic alternative to VMware, and with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), you can build a highly available (HA) cluster with just two nodes.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • June 6, 2024

Proxmox vs. VMware: Ultimate Comparison

From small businesses (SMBs) to large enterprises, find out which platform delivers the best features and value.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • November 28, 2023

SAN vs VSAN. What is the Difference?

Gain insights into storage efficiency and reliability with a comparison of Virtual SAN (VSAN) and SAN. VSAN’s simplicity or SAN’s mission-critical prowess – what’s your pick?
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • October 31, 2023

What is Disaster Recovery (DR)?

In today’s digital landscape, Disaster Recovery (DR) isn’t just a safety net – it’s a lifeline. It ensures data protection, business continuity, and a competitive edge.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • October 17, 2023

High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance

Running a company heavily reliant on IT services and wondering how to improve business continuity? Our new article explains the key differences between High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) and will help you choose the right IT resilience strategy.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • August 21, 2023

What is Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure?

The hybrid cloud infrastructure is must-have in a world of modern business as it provides flexibility, scalability, security, and cost saving in many areas. However, even though all of these inherent advantages may make it look perfect, it really isn’t.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • July 20, 2023

Hypervisors: Type 1 vs Type 2. [PART 1]

Discover the key differences and advantages of each hypervisor type. From performance to security and ease of use, we’ll guide you through the virtualization maze.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • December 23, 2020

Enable block storage devices in WSL2

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.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • January 3, 2019

Wasabi + Veeam + StarWind: Don’t put your “backup” eggs in one basket

The golden rule for the safety of your data is as follows: always back up and distribute copies to different locations. However, the choice of backup environments can be accompanied by high-cost issues, security concerns, the risk of service interruption/termination, and so on. Storing your data in the cloud seems to be the most optimal solution. But even here you may encounter certain troubles such as the need to pay for all services, subscriptions, service plans, and configuration of a public cloud storage provider. Do you want to know about a backup storage solution that eliminates the drawbacks of costly backup processes and meets regulatory data archival and retention requirements?
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