Feeling lost with all the vSwitch load balancing options? Our latest guide by Daryna Havrada, StarWind Technical Support Engineer, explains each policy, when to use it, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Don’t leave your network performance to chance – learn the best practices now. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cX
AVR, Inc., a US-based software development company, faced limitations with its single, non-clustered Hyper-V servers, which put critical applications at risk of downtime. The company needed a cost-effective solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance without investing in extra hardware. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), AVR, Inc. creates a clustered IT environment with HA and redundancy functionalities, reducing downtime to zero and ensuring the smooth operation of its electronic billing system. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cU
Looking for a VMware replacement? With licensing changes shaking things up, now's the time to explore your options. We’ve analyzed top alternatives, covering features, integrations, and ecosystem support. Check out our latest guide by Marius Sandbu, a cloud-native and end-user computing expert, for StarWind to find the best fit for your needs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cR
Microsoft is making big improvements to ReFS in Windows Server 2025! With new features, ReFS is more powerful than ever. Don’t miss our latest article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind – learn all about the latest updates. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cO
iF1 Solutions, a Canada-based IT services provider, struggled with scaling and upgrading its legacy HPE infrastructure due to unclear upgrade paths, high costs, and deployment complexity. The company needed a hyperconverged platform to achieve scalability and reduce licensing costs. By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), iF1 Solutions adopts hyperconvergence, streamlines management, improves scalability, and saves $10,000–$20,000 per client compared to HPE/Dell solutions. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cL
Cost-efficient open-source solution or industry-standard reliability? Proxmox VE and VMware ESXi both offer powerful virtualization capabilities, but they differ in pricing, ease of use, and performance. We’ve broken down the key differences in our latest article by Ivan Ischenko, a StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer, to help you choose. Read more: https://starwind.com/s/cI
Volex, a global manufacturer of power and data transmission solutions, had a 10-year-old IT infrastructure with traditional servers and iSCSI storage, causing slow performance and inefficiencies. The company required a cost-effective shared storage solution to replace its aging servers and storage. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Volex achieves a reliable hyperconverged infrastructure, faster data access, and high availability (HA), thus ensuring continuous electronic manufacturing operations. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cF
HAProxy is a powerful tool for managing server traffic, and when paired with Keepalived, it ensures your system stays available even if a server goes down. Learn how to configure these tools on Linux based CentOS 10 step by step in our latest guide by Karim Buzdar, an IT Engineer & Linux Expert, for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cC
Keeping your security settings consistent across all your servers can be a challenge. OSConfig helps prevent configuration drift by automatically enforcing security baselines in Windows Server 2025.
Learn how to install, configure, and take advantage of this must-have security tool in our latest article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cz
Illinois Community Credit Union, a financial institution, relied on a traditional physical SAN, which lacked connectivity redundancies, and upgrading it was impossible due to manufacturer constraints. Finding a cost-effective alternative with built-in redundancy was critical to maintaining uninterrupted operations. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Illinois Community Credit Union enhances storage redundancy and high availability (HA), ensures infrastructure resilience, and saves $10,000 in hardware costs. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cw
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 in our latest article by Dmytro Malynka, StarWind Product Manager. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ct
FinZey Finance, a Saudi Arabian financial company, faced challenges with isolated HPE servers lacking a dedicated SAN, risking downtime and inefficiency. The company needed a cost-effective solution to achieve high availability (HA) and failover for its VMware infrastructure without investing in a costly SAN. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (#VSAN), FinZey Finance combines the internal storage of its three hosts into a fault-tolerant shared storage system, ensuring HA and seamless failover for its IT infrastructure supporting critical financial services. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/cq
AWS offers multiple ways to back up your S3 data, but not all of them are cost-effective or secure. Discover the best backup methods, storage class options, and expert tips in our latest guide by Dmytro Malynka, StarWind Product Manager, to keep your data safe. Read more: https://starwind.com/s/cn
Need to check your #network status, tweak #firewall_rules, or configure WiFi settings? Netsh is a built-in Windows tool that lets you do all that and more from the command line. Here's our latest handy guide by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind with the most useful commands. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ck
Sun Peaks Resort, a Canadian premier vacation destination, struggled with the complexity of managing Mircosoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) in its Hyper-V environment, making storage management and troubleshooting unintuitive. The resort needed a hyperconverged solution to enhance system reliability and ensure high availability (HA). By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Sun Peaks Resort gains a high-performance, easy-to-manage hyperconverged IT infrastructure with seamless storage management, HA, and exceptional support, ensuring uninterrupted guest services and operational stability. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ch
Virtualization is evolving, and open-source solutions are gaining ground. We take a close look at Proxmox VE and XCP-ng in our latest guide by Ivan Ischenko, StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer, comparing their architecture, features, performance, storage options, and support cost. Which one is right for your business? Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/ce
Share IT Limited, a London-based managed IT services provider (MSP), had a highly available (HA) IT infrastructure with clustered hypervisors, HA networks, firewalls, and switches, but storage remained a single point of failure (SPOF). The company needed a cost-effective HA storage solution to eliminate SPOF in its infrastructure and replace unreliable single-node storage arrays. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Share IT Limited creates a 2-node HA cluster with synchronous replication, improves performance, eliminates data loss risks, and enables seamless maintenance without IT services disruption. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/c5
If you're running Windows Server 2025 or Windows 11, you can create a Dev Drive – an optimized volume designed for development workloads.
Find out how to set it up and boost your build performance in our latest article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, for StarWind. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/c2
Is your DR plan ready for a Hyper-V host failure? Learn how Hyper-V Replica ensures you’re back up and running fast. Explore the setup process, best practices, and key benefits of this built-in Windows Server feature from the step-by-step guide by StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer Anton Vovchuk. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/bZ
The Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faced performance issues with its data center’s SAN, which couldn’t support new vital signs software. The university needed to achieve higher levels of uptime and redundancy to run critical healthcare software without buying new physical SAN units. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine creates a highly available (HA) stretched cluster, eliminates the need for costly SAN upgrades, and enables the use of new vital signs capturing software. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/bW