Interface IT Solutions Group LTD, a Canadian Managed IT Services Provider (MSP), had a Windows Server environment based on physical SAN and with VMware ESXi on top. The existing IT infrastructure was fragmented and lacked a solid foundation. The company was looking for a product that would allow creating a consolidated server architecture and achieving high availability with minimal hardware footprint and at an affordable price. StarWind allowed Interface IT Solutions Group LTD to consolidate memory, compute, and storage resources in one software-defined hyperconverged platform and get high availability with only 2 two nodes.

Find out how Interface IT Solutions Group LTD gets a hyperconverged solution with perfect price-performance ratio thanks to StarWind.

“Preparation is key to success” — a saying that people have developed for a very good reason. In the new series, our Solutions Engineer will dissect the process of migrating production data and carry you through its journey step-by-step. During episode 1, you will learn about migration scenarios, what hazards lie ahead, how to prepare for migration and why it is mandatory to do so.

Tune into our new webinar series and master the art of production data migration.

The Society of St James, a British charity for the homeless, was searching for a solution to re-use its existing IT resources smartly, bring constant uptime, and ties the whole infrastructure together. With StarWind, the charity got the chance to build a single highly available (HA) Hyper-V cluster to run its considerable IT environment without buying any new devices or servers.

Find out how the Society of St James simplified its IT environment while dramatically boosting its performance without any new proprietary components thanks to StarWind.

Cohesiveness is something hyperconvergence vendors have been really going for this year. Recently, VMware has introduced its vRealize Operations Managers 8.0, an update of its “friendly admin” type of product. The new version has additions to workload planning, cost comparison, HCI nodes removal, scalability, on-prem/cloud health monitoring, and more.

Read the full article by Vladan Seget, where he covers the most stand-out features of vROPs 8.0.

Just like you, customers, we, StarWind employees, like to buy goods or services that have genuine reviews. Googling for hours, reading dozens of platforms and promotions can often confuse a person regarding a product. That’s why IT Central Station has compiled a report, covering HCIs that are being used and have been reviewed by 300+ real-life IT specialists.

Download the free report now and find out all the tea that IT managers and directors have to spill on StarWind HCA, providing you with comprehensive and true feedback on our solution.

Crash scenarios may vary, and they always happen when you least expect them. VMs do have a recovery point but, while you troubleshoot, it may be a good idea to restore them into Azure to reduce downtime. The process has certain requirements and may prove a bit fussy, but once you’ve ensured the VM (or even workload) migration to Azure, you’re DR is sealed.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, to learn how to use Veeam as a vehicle for VM migration from a restore point to Azure.

VMware was proud to reveal its Project Pacific at this year’s VMworld. The new solution promises to transform vSphere into a Kubernetes-native platform. Project Pacific says it’ll unite software dev teams, DevOps teams, and vSphere admins in one workflow and be fully mergeable with Kubernetes, going as far as vSAN, NSX, and VVols support, among many other features. But is it as perfect as it seems?

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization tech pro, and learn about the promises VMware Project Pacific offers and possible pitfalls, which the naked eye might not see.

Security issues, unfortunately, remain a priority even today, because, obviously, there is no such thing as too much protection. In the case of the custom domains on your apps, the same rules apply. Luckily, there is a new security feature for Azure App Service released. App Service Managed Certificates will help you to secure your domains on Windows and Linux apps!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to protect your Azure Web App with a public trusted certificate.

Intel Optane, 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, ConnectX-5 NICs, Spectrum 100GbE NICs, SuperServers, and StarWind VSAN combined — sounds like heaven… And it is! StarWind and its friends at Intel, Supermicro, and Mellanox were able to build the world’s fastest HCI, scoring 26.8M IOPS across the entire cluster, which is 100% of underlying storage performance!

Find out from this video how this dream team achieved such a milestone, and what it means for the future of customer ROI, hardware footprinting and performance elevation.

Everybody knows that managing complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud is not just a walk in the park. However, Microsoft, among other things, is known for continuous work on simplifying the experience of their customers, so meet Azure Arc. It is a new service that is designed to make your life easier because it helps with extending Azure to any infrastructure!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to get started with the preview version of new service Azure Arc that connects your servers directly in the Azure console:

Intellegens Inc., a US Managed IT Services Provider (MSP), had an IT infrastructure with a number of servers and SAN/NAS setup in both Hyper-V and VMware clusters. The main issue of the existing IT environment was related to a lack of centralized enterprise storage. This was resulting in performance hits, high latency, and unnecessary complexity on the path of infrastructure growth. StarWind allowed the company to get enterprise-class storage performance without any bottleneck issues, reliability, and simplicity in IT infrastructure operation with no need to buy tons of costly hardware, all at a price affordable for SMB.

Find out how Intellegens Inc. received a cure-all solution for all its problems thanks to StarWind.

Electronics Box, a Polish security and fire alarm systems supplier, had a 2-node Windows Server Failover Cluster with a shared storage system based on a single SAN and Microsoft Hyper-V on top. Every part of the company’s IT infrastructure was redundant except for the storage system. So all attempts to build a fault-tolerant environment without reliable shared storage were idle. StarWind allowed the company to create a stretched cluster at several geographical locations with complete redundancy so from now on its alarm monitoring central station would operate seamlessly.

Find out how Electronics Box got a real painkiller for all of the company’s IT infrastructure issues with StarWind

Artem Berman, StarWind COO and Co-Founder, recently gave an interview to SuperbCrew, sharing his thoughts about the relevance of hyperconverged infrastructures (HCIs) for the contemporary business. He also emphasizes how StarWind was the catalyst of making HCIs “a thing” and how our products redefine how companies utilize IT resources to grow sustainably.

Read the interview to get a prompt excurse into StarWind’s background, how its products have a positive impact on the modern economy, and where it thinks the future of IT resources lies.

Lancaster Baptist Church, a Californian church with its own college and school, enjoys a ginormous IT infrastructure with 20+ physical servers, over 1,000 devices, 150 Access Points, and 50 switches that provide access to 40+ applications and services. Unfortunately, their Hyper-V wasn’t able to support continuous high performance of such a giant. However, the StarWind solution fit the demand perfectly, tying the whole Hyper-V environment into a single fault-tolerant cluster with endless scaling possibilities.

Find out how Lancaster Baptist Church achieved redundancy and high availability with StarWind.

Sometimes, tinkering with configurations and commands can go awry. For example, when you’ve made some modifications to SELinux in a virtual machine (VM) in Azure. Suddenly, “Failed to load SELinux policy, freezing.” pops up. But don’t worry, we’ve got the cure.

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, Microsoft Engineer, to learn how to quickly solve the SELinux error at boot for Linux in Azure.

MarketInsightsReports recently published its Global Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Systems Market Report 2019-2025. It covers various stats, including recent developments and innovations, assessments of opportunities and risks, detailed business strategy studies, etc. StarWind was enlisted among the top companies in the industry and considered to be one of its key drivers.

You can read the report’s brief outline by The Ukiah Post below or find the link to the full report on their page.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge. Experimentation and resilience make StarWind’s innovations possible. In the upcoming webinar, our Chief Technical Officer will share how, taking NVMe as a catalyst, StarWind has built the world’s fastest hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). By teaming up with Intel, Mellanox, and Supermicro, we created a 12-node HCI, which reveals that, with the right configuration and software, little hardware is needed to process 100% of your IOPs. Ultimate hardware utilization is not in tomorrow — it is already here.

Tune in to learn that it’s now possible to achieve skyrocketing performance while simultaneously having substantially less hardware than it was needed yesterday!

CShaheen Tech, an American IT consulting company, need shared storage to improve its imperfect disaster recovery solution. They were looking for a cost-efficient choice that wouldn't require additional hardware, applicable for use on their existing servers. CShaheen Tech has created shared storage with the help of StarWind on top of RAID, thereby increasing security and reliability.

Find out how CShaheen Tech built shared storage with StarWind and created a hyperconverged infrastructure.

Creating apps in Ubuntu that will work seamlessly on different platforms may seem like quite the challenge. Nonetheless, with the right knowledge, you can manage that like a pro. By installing Django on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS and configuring it to use PostgreSQL (which is focused on SQL standards compliance), you can now easily build apps there using heterogeneous databases.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer focused on K2 and Microsoft technology stack, to learn how to install Django on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS and configure it to use Postgres database now.

StorageReview has recently published an article about their lab tests on StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). In a nutshell, “StarWind [HCA] easily surpassed the notion that you need lots of nodes to drive strong performance.” The review concludes that HCA is more flexible, accounts for better output, and is way more efficient than other turnkey appliance alternatives. We are flattered by such feedback after our product having completed the set of their meticulous tests.

Check out the full report on StarWind HCA by StorageReview to see what their lab has to say about the innovation our solution brings to the HCI market’s table.