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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • September 12, 2024

StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) vs Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Part 2: Hyper-V HCI Performance Benchmarking (RDMA)

Discover how StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) stack up in real-world scenarios, check out the performance results, and see which one stands out in high-performance storage. 
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • August 22, 2024

StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) vs Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Part 1: Hyper-V HCI Performance Benchmarking (TCP)

Explore a detailed performance comparison of Microsoft S2D and StarWind VSAN on Hyper-V. Check out the in-depth benchmark results. 
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Daryna Havrada
  • Daryna Havrada
  • April 11, 2024

Software RAID vs. Hardware RAID. What is the Difference?

Curious about RAID? Discover the technical differences and find out which one suits your needs best.
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Andrea Mauro
  • Andrea Mauro
  • February 21, 2019

Changing the hardware resources on a running VM

Each virtual machine (VM) is a collection of resources provided by the infrastructure layer, usually organized in a pool of resources and assigned dynamically (or in some case statically) to each VM. VMs “see” a subset of physical resources in a form of virtual hardware components defined usually by the certain minimum elements. Adding hardware components can be useful in some cases, or they can be necessary for performing some basic operations, like, for example, installing the guest OS where a video driver, a keyboard and a mouse device are needed to use the remote console. That is why you should be aware of which hardware resources can be hot-add and which hot-remove.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • April 12, 2018

SMB Direct – The State of RDMA for use with SMB 3 traffic (Part I)

What is RDMA and why do we like it.
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Kevin Soltow
  • Kevin Soltow
  • February 22, 2018

3 key factors to consider when choosing a hyper-converged vendor

Well, hyperconvergence is certainly a good deal but there are certain factors to consider when choosing a hyper-converged vendor. Support is a number one thing you should be looking for. Basically, decent support increases chances that your production remains operational all the time or at least minimizes the downtimes. Unified management is the “core” of hyperconvergence, so make sure you won’t need any additional software for administrating your hyper-converged infrastructure. Finally, the price. Take your time and calculate if you’re not overpaying just for a vendor’s “logo”. So, there is a wide variety of hyper-converged appliances, but I hope these three simple factors will help you with choosing a vendor that will provide you with the one that will serve you faithfully.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • October 12, 2017

SMB Direct in a Windows Server 2016 Virtual Machine Experiment

Ever since Windows Server 2012 we have SMB Direct capabilities in the OS and Windows Server 2012 R2 added more use cases such as live migration for example. In Windows Server 2016, even more, workloads leverage SMB Direct, such as S2D and Storage Replication. SMB Direct leverages the RDMA capabilities of a NIC which delivers high throughput at low latency combined with CPU offloading to the NIC. The latter save CPU cycles for the other workloads on the hosts such as virtual machines.
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Alex Khorolets
  • Alex Khorolets
  • April 21, 2017

Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D/E300-8D review

These days, more and more companies need high-quality, reliable and efficient server hardware.  Home labs used by enthusiasts and professionals in the IT sphere for software developing and testing, studying for an IT certification, and configuring virtual environments became popular as well. Small companies are also interested in cheap and compact servers, the production of which is based on a couple of virtual machines or networking applications. Supermicro company ranks one of the leading positions in server development for a long time. Supermicro products range from the Hi-End clusters to microservers. Recently the company released two compact servers: SuperServer E200-8D and its younger model – SuperServer E300-8D.
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Michael Ryom
  • Michael Ryom
  • March 29, 2017

vRealize Operations Manager Gems

Working with vRops over the last years has taught me one thing. The development of vRops goes so fast. Sometimes so fast that you do not realize when or what has changed. However, there are many “hidden” gems in vRops, which will make you and the product shine even more. So come along, as I will show you my top ten hidden gems of vRops…
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