Even if you know all the backup ways and methods, you can always open a door to new knowledge. This time we’re talking about backing up Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), namely creating VM disk snapshots in order to back up a disk manually. But even in this process, you can get automation. How?
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to automate the process of creating disk snapshots on Azure with PowerShell runbooks.
Seeing the full picture of how well your Azure is faring can be complicated. It can be quite problematic to consolidate its workloads visually into comprehensive documentation. Subsequently, the reports to customers on the cloud’s effectiveness can come out as too cumbersome. It can also be hard for your team and partners to assess its input into your business’ IT environment overall.
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, Microsoft Engineer, to learn how Cloudockit can help you generate thorough, user-friendly, and visually appealing content about your Azure’s workloads.
Farmers & Merchants Bank, a US financial institution, had an infrastructure with primary and DR sites. Each of the locations had 2 Hyper-V hosts running Microsoft Server 2019 and Dell EqualLogic SAN. The organization was looking for a shared storage solution to get fault tolerance and high availability of its financial data. Thanks to StarWind, Farmers & Merchants Bank received cost-efficient and reliable shared storage with no need to buy additional SAN hardware.
Find out how Farmers & Merchants Bank gets the high intensity of I/O operations saving $60,000 on hardware with StarWind.
Tracing your Azure’s health can be quite a challenge. Tons of daily entries delete, update, or create resources in the cloud, and some of these changes may result in a crash. For administrators, identifying which entry caused the error amidst the usual chaotic activity logs can be a problem, which may lead to severe downtime. Luckily, Log Analytics can help you solve such issues in no time.
Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, and learn how to centralize Azure activity logs and what benefits it ensues.
The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand faced problems with low performance and high downtime and needed to scale up their storage to fix them. They were looking for a cost-efficient software-defined storage (SDS) solution suitable for Hyper-V. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand leveraged their environment with highly available storage infrastructure.
Find out how the EGAT solved its storage resource problem and increased their performance.
Flotman Sp. Z o. o. faced problems with unacceptable downtime, limited performance, and aging hardware. Virtualization was a way to fix these issues for sure. They were looking for a cost-efficient hyperconvered solution suitable for Hyper-V to avoid having a single point of failure. Flotman Sp. Z o. o. united all of their servers in one Hyper-V cluster, meeting their desirable requirements.
Find out how the Flotman built a virtualized environment with StarWind and increased their performance.
In times when computing technology is moving by leaps and bounds, cloud migration happens quite often. While completely common, this process carries some dangers, such as web applications safety. It becomes an issue since you expose your sites publicly. However, if you move your servers to Azure, this won't be a problem!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to deploy Azure Application Gateway.
CIPTI used to have their backups performed manually, which was slowing them down. They were looking for a cost-efficient shared storage solution suitable for Hyper-V, and they found StarWind.
Find out how CIPTI received shared storage with StarWind and increased their performance.
The world has changed, and today nobody treats cybercrime as a joke. However, while huge corporations have employed armies of specialists to take matters in their own hands, it begs the question: what about the others who don't have such vast resources at their disposal? Small organizations are not at all helpless, but there are some things everybody needs to know about cybersecurity!
Read the article by Benoit Voirin, a Cybersecurity consultant, to find out details about the main cybersecurity concerns and solutions.
Are you a System Administrator or IT Manager calmly kicked back in the back of your SMB’s seemingly calm IT-environment but with a nagging “what if?” in case disasters come knocking? Then it’s time to get a bit more knowledge about disaster recovery so that your cluster is impeccable always. vSphere and Hyper-V have a lot of features to help you with that. There’s also more than meets the eye when it comes to native DR and VM replication options and Azure Site Recovery in VMware and Microsoft environments.
Learn from the upcoming webinar how you can become the perfect sentinel of your SMB’s business continuity.
Everybody knows that access errors are the most irritating ones in any computer-related activity. They become even more confusing if the traditional means to get behind it won't work. Say, you are trying to connect your VM to a domain, and you get this infamous "access denied" message? Don't worry that this will bother you.
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to deal with ERROR_Access_Denied after joining a VM to a domain.
Diaflor Technologies, a Romanian hospitality services provider, had an IT infrastructure with two bare-metal servers, a couple of Cisco switches, and an NGFW router. Bare-metal servers have more limitations compared to virtual instances and require physical network resources. All this made the company's IT infrastructure inflexible and costly. Thanks to StarWind, Diaflor Technologies receives a cost-efficient and reliable shared storage, creates a failover cluster, and achieves flexibility and scalability of the IT infrastructure.
Find out how Diaflor Technologies turns to virtualization saving thousands of euros on hardware and software expenses with StarWind.
VMware vSphere specialists can do wonders with these environments, pushing its potential to the limit. Unfortunately, IT admins and team members don't usually possess that level of expertise. Nevertheless, by using VMware vSphere snapshot storing technology, you can make administrating vSphere environment much more comfortable with a very flexible way of being able to go back in time and revert changes!
Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out how to store the complete state and data of a virtual machine with VMware snapshot.
The IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH faced problems with low speed and limited performance and needed a highly available shared storage cluster to use it as a central data store. They were looking for a cost-efficient virtual SAN solution suitable for Hyper-V. The IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH united their servers in one 2 servers highly available cluster, increasing their performance.
Find out how the IBAR Systemtechnik built a cluster with StarWind and increased their performance.
Permolex Ltd. required a shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) of IT infrastructure. Any failures in replication can disrupt data integrity production in case of emergency. With StarWind, Permolex Ltd. saved the money and eliminated downtime in case of failover.
Find out how Permolex Ltd. built a fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with the help of StarWind.
Are you a system administrator having trouble working with Hyper-V environment? Thanks to mastering PowerShell, your work environment can be as easily manageable as your own smart home, with its primary functions carried by the task automation!
Learn from this video about improving your Hyper-V environment with task automation through PowerShell.
There isn't really much to say about Terraform and ways it can help you manage your environment that hasn't been already said. However, highlighting its features does not limit to deploying resources in Azure or storing passwords for security measures. Time to find out how your working process can reach more efficiency!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to execute commands directly in a virtual machine (VM) when deploying the resource.
StarWind presents Virtual SAN (VSAN) for vSphere - a lightweight Linux-based VM, providing your ROBO & Edge ship with needed fault tolerance, high application uptime, high availability, and storage utilization efficiency on existing commodity hardware. Great sailing is not only for big ships. Even small- and medium-sized businesses deserve to have their big sea without any barriers. And you can be sure that your path won’t be blocked by any obstacles: neither complicated licensing conditions nor hardware compatibility list (HCL) strictness.
Go on your highly available path with only 2 nodes with StarWind VSAN for vSphere!
Goshen Community Schools, a US public education institution, had an inflexible IT infrastructure built on Dell Compellent SAN with VMware ESXi deployed on top of it. The combination was its SPOF without the benefits of redundancy. The institution required fault-tolerant, highly available (HA) shared storage instead of a costly upgrade of its existing SAN, which would yield little output. Thanks to StarWind, Goshen Community Schools achieved HA and scalability with a single flexible and cost-efficient virtual SAN solution using the components it wanted.
Find out how Goshen Community Schools avoided a budget-breaking scenario and built an extremely fast SAN without stacking at an incredibly competitive price with StarWind.
No report speaks louder in terms of market prospects than a report oriented on customer needs and investment possibilities. Global perspectives of the hyperconverged systems market 2019-2024 are more than promising, and such conclusion is based on product and supply chains analysis, economic and regulatory factors, and, eventually, customer base. No wonder that StarWind confidently takes a place in the front row among major vendor/manufacturers in the hyperconverged infrastructure systems market! Find out more.
