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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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  • 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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  • Diana Abo Harmouch
    Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • October 10, 2023
What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?
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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
  • May 14, 2024
DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • September 26, 2019

[Azure] Deploy an Application Gateway to protect your Web Apps

In times when computing technology is moving by leaps and bounds, cloud migration happens quite often. While completely common, this process carries some dangers, such as web applications safety. It becomes an issue since you expose your sites publicly. However, if you move your servers to Azure, this won’t be a problem!
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Benoit Voirin
  • Benoit Voirin
  • September 24, 2019

Cyber Security – Where to start – Part 1

Nowadays it’s quite trendy to have penetration testing as a starting point for cybersecurity. Even though penetration testing is a good practice, it’s very limited and focused on one application/product and should therefore not be used as an entry point for cybersecurity.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • September 19, 2019

ERROR_Access_Denied after joigning a VM to a domain

Everybody knows that access errors are the most irritating ones in any computer-related activity. They become even more confusing if the traditional means to get behind it won’t work. Say, you are trying to connect your VM to a domain, and you get this infamous “access denied” message? Don’t worry that this will bother you.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • September 17, 2019

VMware vSphere snapshots best practices and recommendations

VMware snapshots are important part of vSphere infrastructure. Using snapshots is very flexible way of being able to go back in time and revert changes. VMware snapshots are used by admins, developers and other IT team members who are not all VMware specialists. As such it might be a good idea to learn some good practices about snapshots and this technology, to get the most out of it.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • September 12, 2019

[Azure] Execute commands in a VM through Terraform

There isn’t really much to say about Terraform and ways it can help you manage your environment that hasn’t been already said. However, highlighting its features does not limit to deploying resources in Azure or storing passwords for security measures. Time to find out how your working process can reach more efficiency!
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Dmitriy Dolgiy
  • Dmitriy Dolgiy
  • September 11, 2019

How to install Windows Admin Center in a Windows Failover Cluster

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a locally-deployed, browser-based management tool that provides you with the full control over your Windows Server environment. The nice thing is, it does not push you to Azure or any other cloud, so it works for you even if you do not feel that enthusiastic about public cloud.
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Kevin Soltow
  • Kevin Soltow
  • September 10, 2019

Nested virtualization: VMware ESXi vs. Microsoft Hyper-V

Some time ago, I published articles on setting up a home lab using a PC running ESXi and Workstation. We all know that nested virtualization is not an ESXi-only feature; Microsoft Hyper-V also enables us to run VMs inside its VMs. Microsoft’s implementation of this technology is a bit different, but it exists. And, considering that VMware and Microsoft have been competing for a long time, it’s interesting to see what each has to offer for this type of virtualization. In this post, I examine how easy it is to configure a nested virtualization layer inside Hyper-V and vSphere VMs and discuss peculiarities of this process in both environments.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • September 10, 2019

Testing storage and setting the workload pattern quickly with IOBlazer

Keeping your storage up to date is a necessary action one takes to ensure the efficiency of overall infrastructure performance. However, manual handling of such matters as testing storage or setting the workload pattern can be rather tedious to conduct. Or at least it was until the IOBlazer utility kicked in!
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Mikhail Rodionov
  • Mikhail Rodionov
  • September 3, 2019

How to Install Django on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS – Part 2: Configuring Django to use MySQL database

You have probably already covered the basics of Django installation on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. This framework now is ready for the ride, but, as you know, there’s always room for improvement. If you have a little interest in using default SQLite database option, then it’s time to opt for better!
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