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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • March 20, 2025

NVMe over TCP: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Implementation Strategies

NVMe over TCP promises high-speed, low-latency storage over Ethernet without specialized hardware. We explore its practical applications, advantages, and limitations in modern IT infrastructure.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • December 23, 2024

How to Create VMware vSphere VMs with RDM Disks

Learn when to use Raw Device Mapping (RDM) in VMware vSphere, how to configure it, and the trade-offs involved in direct LUN access.
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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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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • October 12, 2024

Testing iSER on ESXi

VMware ESXi is the industry-leading hypervisor that is installed directly on a physical server. It is a reliable and secure solution with a tiny hardware footprint. At the same time, ESXi architecture is easy in management, patching, and updating. Recently, Mellanox has released iSER 1.0.0.1, the stable iSER driver build for ESXi. iSER is an iSCSI extension for RDMA that enables the direct data transfer out and into SCSI memory without any intermediate data copies. Here, we study the driver stability and performance to understand how the protocol streamlines ESXi environments.
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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • August 2, 2024

StarWind has set hyperconvergence performance record. Let’s get behind the scenes

Hyperconvergence has dramatically transformed data center landscape over the past few years. New technologies are being developed, good old ones are being improved… We live in exciting times! And as data centers are becoming more reliable and powerful, it is important to get more out of the hardware in use: nobody likes to leave money on the table! Intel, Mellanox and StarWind have teamed up to develop a Hyper-V highly available cluster where you’ll get awesome performance without compromising ease of manageability of the environment. This article discusses the measurements in brief, showcasing the recent results.
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Vladyslav Savchenko
  • Vladyslav Savchenko
  • July 11, 2024

Configuring Highly Available NVMe-oF Storage in Proxmox VE

Interested in NVMeoF vs iSCSI debate? Explore our latest article and learn how to set up High Availability cluster on Proxmox VE with NVMe-oF storage.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • April 4, 2024

iSCSI vs NVMe-oF: Performance Comparison

Discover our latest SPDK iSCSI vs. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) performance benchmarks, and understand which protocol excels in speed and efficiency for your specific use cases.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • March 17, 2024

Having trouble adding an AWS Storage Gateway iSCSI target on VMware ESXi cluster? Fix it in a few steps

Last year, my colleague asked me for advice. He couldn’t add an iSCSI target, provided by AWS Storage Gateway, on VMware ESXi cluster. So, initially, this material was intended to serve as a manual. However, since I got a similar question once more just recently, I realized that this topic could be interesting to the others as well, which is why I decided to share this guide, hoping it will be useful.
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Orest Lesyuk
  • Orest Lesyuk
  • March 14, 2024

Replacing legacy physical tapes with StarWind VTL for IBM i. Part 2: IBM i backup to StarWind VTL

Explore the technical side of upgrading IBM i backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL).
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