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Andrea Mauro
  • Andrea Mauro
  • June 7, 2017

Design a ROBO infrastructure. Part 4: HCI solutions

As written in the previous post, for ROBO scenario the most interesting HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) configuration is a two nodes configuration, considering that two nodes could be enough to run dozen VMs (or also more). For this reason, not all hyperconverged solutions could be suitable for this case (for example Nutanix or Simplivity need at least 3 nodes). And is not simple scale down an enterprise solution to a small size, due to the architecture constraints.
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Alex Bykovskyi
  • Alex Bykovskyi
  • May 5, 2017

StarWind Virtual Storage Appliance Linux edition

This article describes the new StarWind Virtual Storage Appliance, which was released on 26th of April. StarWind has always been a Windows native solution. However, due to market trends and the huge interest of our customers, we have decided to work in Linux direction. The main goal of the article is to show what StarWind VSA can do for clients and how you can work with it.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • December 26, 2016

The Virtualization Review Editor’s Choice Awards 2016

The Virtualization Review Editor’s Choice is a selection of the most outstanding virtualization products of 2016. It is based on the opinions and overlooks by the trusted experts in the fields of virtualization and cloud computing. This is not the “best of the best rating”. No criteria were applied to make the list. This is just the collection of individual choices of writers, who deal with the industry daily, so they have pointed out virtualization solutions they found especially interesting and useful.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • November 1, 2016

VMworld Europe 2016 main announcements – all you need to know about new versions of VMware products in just one article

Just recently one of the main virtualization conferences VMworld Europe 2016 has finished. Traditionally, it has been held a while after the main VMworld in the USA. While in the USA VMware was speaking about the new technologies and the future of datacenters, in Europe much more attention was paid to the new features of updated VMware products. The main of them is, of course, VMware vSphere 6.5 server virtualization platform. We’ll start our overview with it.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • September 1, 2016

How VMware sees IT future. VMworld 2016. Day 1.

As you know, the main virtualization conference VMworld 2016 arranged by VMware is now being held in Las Vegas. On the first day of the conference several interesting announcements were made. For example, VMware Cloud Foundation, which soon will be available on the IBM platform and later with other vendors, as well, was presented. It allows to get a ready-made infrastructure at customer’s site with both necessary software and hardware components and ready, configured and integrated control and automation tools like NSX, Virtual SAN and vRealize:
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • March 7, 2016

Preview of VMware Products and Technologies for 2016. Here is what you need to know

In early February on the Enabling the Digital Enterprise online-event, VMware announced the new versions of its products and technologies planned for release in 2016: • VMware Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode – Enterprise VM management via VMware public cloud • Change in licensing for VMware vSphere, effective from June 30, 2016 • VMware Horizon 7 – countless new opportunities • New capabilities of VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 • Workspace ONE solution announcement • New versions of VMware vCloud Suite 7 and VMware vRealize Suite 7
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Anton Kolomyeytsev
  • Anton Kolomyeytsev
  • October 26, 2015

Log-Structured File Systems: Overview

Log-Structured File System is obviously effective, but not for everyone. As the “benefits vs. drawbacks” list shows, Log-Structuring is oriented on virtualization workload with lots of random writes, where it performs like a marvel. It won’t work out as a common file system for everyday tasks. Check out this overview and see what LSFS is all about.
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