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Webinar recording: Building a stretched cluster: Keep your data always secure

Published: March 11, 2019

Today more and more companies are expanding beyond the single location. A stretched cluster allows the companies to keep their data safe across several geographical locations and in case of any emergencies. It combines servers into a single system, providing high availability (HA) and load balancing and giving an opportunity to migrate VMs easily from one place to another. Find out from this video about a stretched cluster differentiation, replication options for it, different deployment scenarios, ways to secure data and prevent split brain.

Technical paper: StarWind Virtual SAN: Feature Configuration Guide for Gentle Shutdown with APC PowerChute

Unexpected power outage can result in data loss, especially when write-back cache is in use. The combination of PowerChute and StarWind allows users to gently turn off the VMs, hosts and put the StarWind devices into maintenance mode. Thus, StarWind users get a helpful utility to prevent unexpected power outage and possible data loss. This technical paper provides detailed guidelines on applying StarWind Virtual SAN with PowerChute Network.

Webinar recording: Deploying FT VMware ESXi: strengthen & optimize IT infrastructure

Published: November 21, 2018

VMware environment allows you to run, connect, and manage many applications. But sooner or later the question arises of the need to guarantee data safety and constant applications availability. Find out from this video how to configure highly available (HA) and fault tolerant (FT) VMware environment with StarWind VSAN for vSphere deployment.

Webinar recording: Ensure high applications availability in VMware vSphere environments with Linux-based StarWind Virtual SAN

Published: July 24, 2018

Typically, picking Software-Defined Storage for a VMware vSphere environment is a hard nut to crack for admins. They are to stick to strict hardware compatibility lists or master some special skills to deploy it. Learn from this video how to avoid all those pains with Linux-based StarWind Virtual SAN.

Webinar recording: Enlarge VMware VM density just by replacing iSCSI with iSER

Published: March 9, 2018

We all know that there’s never too much of CPU resources. In order to streamline the existing resources utilization, ditch iSCSI and enable iSER instead. Learn from this video more about the benefits doing this grants to your IT ecosystem.

Webinar recording: End all that pain of adding new users manually in VMware vCenter

Published: March 5, 2018

Joining the already existing in Microsoft Active Directory (AD) group policy to VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) comes in handy once you face with large environments. By doing this, you’ll provide the existing in AD domain users with centralized management over vSphere and escape all that pain of adding the new ones manually. Find out from this video how to join VCSA to Microsoft AD for centralized VCSA domain users’ management.