Keeping your storage up to date is a necessary action one takes to ensure the efficiency of overall infrastructure performance. However, manual handling of such matters as testing storage or setting the workload pattern can be rather tedious to conduct. Or at least it was until the IOBlazer utility kicked in!
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a Virtualization technology professional, to find out how to enable reliable testing of storage subsystems from inside virtual machines.
Getting highly available (HA) shared storage is an issue of growth for any business. Beginners stretch budgets to splurge on a SAN and the enterprise spends skyrocketing sums to stack it. Both force unnecessary expenditure: their IT-environment isn’t “juiced” to the fullest due to poor functionality and inability to scale. With StarWind VSAN, TechHQ says that startups can easily start without buying SANs and corporates can scale without stacking — everyone can achieve fault-tolerance and HA for a very attractive price.
Find out how to get reliable and fluid resources to power your business.
It's almost time to get used to the fact that each significant and thorough report on prospects, forecasts, and major players in the hyperconverged infrastructure market always includes StarWind. Years of expertise, an impressive number of satisfied clients, and impeccable industry reputation are making sure of this! Find out more.
Everybody knows that the main advantage of the HCI system is that it virtualizes all traditional elements of IT infrastructure, such as networking and computing. However, while virtualization technology has been around for a while now, market development shows that it is yet to enter a golden age. As reports go, in coming years hyperconvergence will take a more prominent place, top players are already identified, and StarWind is one of them! Find out more.
You have probably already covered the basics of Django installation on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. This framework now is ready for the ride, but, as you know, there's always room for improvement. If you have a little interest in using default SQLite database option, then it's time to opt for better!
Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to configure Django application to use MySQL database.
As you know, there is no shortage of technologies to establish the connection of external peripheral devices. Still, while such options as FireWire or Thunderbolt already had their finest hour, USB remains the most popular choice, and USB support in VMware vSphere allows its users to maintain high-speed connections to servers, hypervisor, and virtual machines (VMs)!
Read the article by Andrea Mauro, a Virtualization expert, to find out details about USB support in VMware vSphere.
How to save money and maintain integrity of your data with LTO? By no means. If you save your money on the purchase of some modern physical tape drive for backup purpose, you spend twice as much on maintaining media in your datacenter. It’s going round in circles, agree? But you have the opportunity to get rid of all these inconveniences and access your data anytime and securely store it locally with flexible tiering and replication to Backblaze (B2) Cloud Storage. And save your money! We do not urge you to take our word for it. We invite you to visualize your benefits for the decades ahead with our calculator. LTO Vs B2.
Check for yourself what it means to have StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze in your IT infrastructure.
AllPro Technologies, a U.S. managed IT service provider (MSP), required a shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) of its IT infrastructure. The company had a problem with a slow Hyper-V replication process that was subject to constant errors. Any failures in replication can disrupt data integrity and fault tolerance of the IT infrastructure in case of emergency. With StarWind, AllPro Technologies saved the money and eliminated downtime in case of a power outage.
Find out how AllPro Technologies built a fault-tolerant IT infrastructure with 750+ desktops and 100+ servers thanks to StarWind.
A. L. Thompson's, a British building materials retailer, had a VMware environment with local storage and ESXi on top. The company wanted to achieve scalability for its IT infrastructure expanding server space, but without buying expensive DAS and replacing existing hardware. In addition, the company needed to optimize intense virtualized workloads between the ESXi hosts. With StarWind, A. L. Thompson's received a full-fledged shared storage solution with the opportunity to move VMs around and distribute the virtualized workloads between the ESXi hosts evenly and with no need for buying costly proprietary components.
Find out how A. L. Thompson's gets required scalability and high availability with the bare minimum of expense with StarWind.
A person of today should be fair-minded and free from bias in any situation. The tech community is no exception. How can you choose the right soft- or hardware? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the product? IT Central Station is an online platform that offers current, objective, and relevant user information and helps in choosing the best technical solution. Do you doubt what to give preference: StarWind Virtual SAN or VMware vSAN?
Determine the winner by yourself after reading reviews about two VSAN solutions.
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 the upcoming webinar about improving your Hyper-V environment with task automation through PowerShell.
The official US motto sounds like “In God we trust”. But there is also another part of this phrase: "In God we trust, the rest we check". Do you want to choose the right soft- or hardware? Always check and read, especially user reviews. IT Central Station is an online platform that offers current, objective, and relevant user information and helps in choosing the best technical solution. Do you doubt what to give preference: StarWind Virtual SAN or Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct?
Take a look what customers have to say about hyperconvergence done in the right way and make your choice.
Hamden Hall Country Day School, an American independent day school, used to have aging hardware for their existing virtual environment. Its performance was disappointing, and the SAN system was prone to failure. As a result, Hamden Hall has chosen StarWind hyperconverged solution as a better alternative.
Find out how Hamden Hall Country Day School received flawless performance, zero downtime, and fault tolerance with the help of StarWind.
Even the least experienced users know a few things vital for an undisrupted working process if they are dealing with VMware vSphere infrastructure, one of those things being patching. Back in the good old days, risks of cyber threats were something that happens to people in the movies, but today you won't go very far without security patches. Keep your environment up to date with patching VMware vCenter Server Appliance!
Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out how to manually patch VMware vCenter server Appliance (VCSA).
Hillis-Carnes Engineering Associates, an American company specializing in geotechnical and geostructural engineering, needed highly available IT infrastructure because of the constant risk of losing production due to hardware failure. To ensure the desired redundancy the company needed 2 SANs, but, after looking into numbers, though, the company decided to deploy an additional node. With StarWind HyperConverged Appliance deployment, the company increased data resiliency and ensured the highest possible production uptime with hardware fault tolerance (FT).
Find out how Hillis-Carnes Engineering Associates received a reliable highly available infrastructure with StarWind.
In times of need, a web framework comes really in hand, since it allows automating web applications running processes as much as it is possible, but there is always a fly in the ointment. In this case, it is an amount of resource required to access re-usable modules which any web site may need. However, unlike a lot of its counterparts, Django web framework provides you with connection and enabling these modules on as needed basis!
Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to get started with installing Django on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS.
A unique position of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) grants both advantages and disadvantages. Initially, it is not efficient for such business to deploy resource-hungry and overwhelmingly extended infrastructure, which turns out to be too costly. However, on the other hand, StarWind helps to solve issues such as significant application downtime, old hardware, diverse power cycling, ransomware vulnerability, and inefficient backup solutions with building an IT environment ideally suited for each separate case at a reasonable cost.
Read our rubric Other to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
As a software-defined virtualized environment, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is gaining more and more popularity each year, offering new possibilities and benefits to users, outshining traditional architectures. In such circumstances of growing competition, the fact that StarWind HCA continues to gain recognition as one of the few best HCI systems is clearly speaking for itself! Find out more.
If your organization is working with a cloud-only environment, there is hardly a necessity to tell you about managed domains and their benefits for an IT infrastructure. However, what can get your attention, is a possibility to deploy a managed domain without a need to deploy virtual machines (VMs) first, which is precisely what Azure offers with a new server role in Active Directory!
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to deploy Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS) in a dedicated subnet within virtual network.