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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 22, 2024
Setting up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as Hardened Repository for Veeam B&R
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  • Orest Lesyuk
    Orest Lesyuk
  • June 29, 2023
Microsoft SQL Server High Availability: Always On Availability Groups VS Failover Cluster Instances. What to choose and when?
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • November 21, 2023
How to Create a File Share with StarWind VSAN
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    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • October 24, 2023
What is Business Continuity?
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    Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • October 10, 2023
What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?
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  • Alex Khorolets
    Alex Khorolets
  • October 11, 2023
Turn two VMware vSphere hosts into a full-blown cluster without breaking the bank, in 5 easy steps
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    Hanna Parich
  • March 16, 2023
How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM
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    Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • May 14, 2024
DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • July 14, 2016

Ubuntu: Join a server to an Active Directory domain

Today, we will see how to join an Ubuntu server (version 16.04) to an Active Directory domain. It could be useful in case if you want that your administrators use their domain account to connect to servers, etc.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • July 8, 2016

The world’s first 1,000 core CPU has been built

The Kilocore chip represents a step change in CPU power and efficiency. The significant increase in computing power over the past decades gave way to the most of todays advances in science and technology, such as artificial intelligence, secure global communications, or large-scale pharmaceutical analyses.
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Askar Kopbayev
  • Askar Kopbayev
  • July 7, 2016

Comparing vSphere Distributed Switch and Cisco Nexus 1000v switch

When time comes to deciding whether to go with vSphere Distributed Switch or Cisco Nexus 1000v it is hard to tell which product is superior and you find many different and quite contradictory opinions. While quite often it is the political decision based on the answer to the question “Who is going to manage the virtual networking?” there are many other aspects you, as an infrastructure designer, should be aware of.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • July 4, 2016

VMware Photon OS + Docker Volume Driver = containers architecture on vSphere virtualization platform

Many of you know that VMware has a technology called vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). It involves launch of Docker (and others) virtualized containers in small virtual machines with a lightweight operating system based on Linux distribution. This operating system is VMware Photon OS 1.0, which has been finally released just recently. This is the first release version of this operating system from VMware, but in the long view it can become the main platform for virtual appliances by replacing the everlasting SUSE Linux.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • July 4, 2016

Google Undersea Fibre Optic Cabling is Online

Google announced that its FASTER Cable system, an undersea fibre optic cable running from the US to Japan, is now online. This will give them up to 10 terabytes per second (about 1/6 of the cable’s total bandwidth). This is claimed to be the highest-capacity undersea cable ever built.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • June 27, 2016

Windows 2016 Makes a 100% In Box High Performance VDI Solution a Realistic Option

With Windows Server 2016 we have gained some very welcome capabilities to do cost effective VDI deployments using all in box technologies. The main areas of improvement are in storage, RemoteFX and with Discrete Device Assignment for hardware pass-through to the VM. Let’s take a look at what’s possible now and think out loud on what solutions are possible as well as their benefits and drawbacks.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • June 24, 2016

Docker: Docker Datacenter in Azure

Docker Datacenter on Azure and AWS has been announced on Tuesday 21st, June 2016 at the DockerCon.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • June 24, 2016

The Windows Server 2016 Application Platform – Nano Server, Containers and DevOps

Windows Server development projects usually go through a common sequence of stages with a corresponding set of artifacts for the resulting app or service, and for each of them there is a standard set of best practices:
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Anton Kolomyeytsev
  • Anton Kolomyeytsev
  • June 23, 2016

ReFS: Performance

ReFS (Resilient File System – is a Microsoft file system, which ensures data integrity by means of resiliency to corruption (irrespective of software or hardware failures), increases data availability and scales to large data sets across various workloads. Its data protection feature is represented by the FileIntegrity option, which is responsible for file scanning and repair processes.
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