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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
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • October 24, 2023
What is Business Continuity?
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  • Diana Abo Harmouch
    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
    Hanna Parich
  • March 16, 2023
How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM
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  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
    Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • May 14, 2024
DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • April 11, 2023

Lifecycle management in your storage account

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.
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Alex Khorolets
  • Alex Khorolets
  • April 6, 2023

How to convert VMware VM to KVM

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.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 4, 2023

How to upgrade older versions of vSphere to the latest vSphere 8.0 the right way

There are a few things to know about upgrading from vSphere 6.5 and older versions to the latest one.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • March 30, 2023

Sending an Email from Azure using Microsoft Graph API

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?
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • March 28, 2023

Recreating VMDK descriptor files for disks and their snapshots in VMware vSphere virtual machines

One of the reasons for such an error is that the disk descriptor file for the VM disk is either corrupted or missing. Fortunately, you can follow a straightforward process to recreate .vmdk descriptor files.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 23, 2023

Use cases for Raw Device Mapping (RDM), Persistent Memory (PMem), Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)

Everything depends on your organization’s needs and goals. VMware, like other big virtualization vendors, supports a multitude of popular and proprietary technologies related to storage performance. It can be quite confusing which one to choose when, so we’ve prepared a succinct blog post for you to follow to optimize your IT infrastructure.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • March 21, 2023

Microsoft introduces Kata VM Isolated Containers on AKS for Pod Sandboxing

As organizations switch to containerized applications, attackers target such business-critical software more. Containers lack the isolation of virtual machines, creating a serious security risk. Microsoft released a new feature based on Kata project to effectively remedy that, thereby greatly boosting container cybersecurity.
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Hanna Parich
  • Hanna Parich
  • March 16, 2023

How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM

VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are among the most popular type 1 enterprise hypervisors. However, their VM formats are incompatible, and it is not uncommon for users to look for an easy way to migrate a virtual machine from one hypervisor to another.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 14, 2023

VMware vSphere Alert Center 1.1 Fling – retrieve and get notified about your vCenter server(s) alerts

IT admins receive lots of emails daily, so it is not surprising that occasionally some important vSphere notifications get lost in all the fuss. Fortunately, vSphere Alert Center, a VMware Fling app, provides a simple solution for such issues.
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