Mr.T Carting, a U.S. waste management company, had standalone Microsoft Hyper-V hosts with a lack of redundancy. This layout was extremely vulnerable to failure. Thanks to StarWind, Mr.T Carting created a high availability (HA) failover cluster using existing hardware with the much-needed redundancy.
Find out from this success story how Mr.T Carting receives supreme performance and desired HA for its applications with StarWind.
If you have already tried out a test environment deployment on Azure with Terraform, you may have found it eligible, albeit slightly insecure. However, the latter problem exists only in case you won't fix it with storing your password in Azure Key Vault!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how protect your password with Azure Key Vault while running test environment via Terraform.
Are you intrigued by recent hype around Docker? Then you will find it interesting to learn about an alternative to VMs - application containers. We can help you to find out what it is, how and when to use it, and what use cases are on a need-to-know basis.
Learn from this video when containers are better than VMs and that Docker is not the only container type there is!
CollectionCenter, Inc., a U.S. accounts receivables management services provider, required the truly redundant and cost-efficient hyperconverged cluster solution to achieve high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). The company had an IT infrastructure with multiple single hosts and different versions of hypervisors from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft. Critical problems were associated with aging hardware and the lack of redundancy. With StarWind, CollectionCenter, Inc., got rid of outdated hardware and numerous hypervisors, received reliability, safety, and constant protection of customer data, and almost halved overall equipment costs.
Find out how CollectionCenter, Inc. created a single hyperconverged HA Hyper-V cluster with additional redundancy that works flawlessly with StarWind.
One of the primary benefits of operating in a virtualized environment is granting remote access to distant users. However, in the age of digital crime being on the rise, it is not as safe as we would want it to be. Luckily, Azure users don't have to lose sleep over security issue anymore. With Just in Time VM Access, you can automatize configuring the NSGs to allow inbound traffic to the requested port.
Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to lock down your virtual machines (VMs) in the network level by blocking inbound traffic.
An IT infrastructure of a healthcare organization relies heavily on its equipment, for many reasons. This equipment, in turn, requires high quality standards to keep such environment up and running. Electronic medical record (EMR) contain patients' medical information, CT scanners perform medical imaging, and it all needs high availability, fault tolerance, and storage cost-efficiency. Now you have a possibility to improve your IT infrastructure at a reasonable cost!
Read our rubric Healthcare to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Today, not only digital technology evolves exponentially, but it also requires less and less hardware. For example, Azure users now get a chance to experience Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) applied in their environment, deploying infrastructure with already configured Windows Server virtual machine (VM) and code. You can give it a test run and make sure it is easy to manage whether you are a specialist or not!
Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to deploy a test environment on Azure via Terraform.
Lake Erie College, a US higher education institution, had multiple hosts with VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V. The college could not provide the protection and safety of its academic data due to the lack of replication and redundancy. Besides, there was a problem with the replacement of outdated hardware. Thanks to StarWind, Lake Erie College replaces outdated hardware, gains reliable backup, and ensures Hyper-V live migration, at the same time minimizing downtime.
Find out how Lake Erie College increases redundancy and failover capabilities, getting highly available (HA) IT environment at an incredibly competitive price with StarWind.
NVMe is quite a promising technology, but there’s something wrong with its perception: admins are not going as crazy about it as vendors. Using legacy protocols, applications cannot get most of PCIe flash performance, meaning that we do not get the performance we paid for.
NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is a protocol tailored for PCIe SSDs, but there is no NVMe-oF initiator for Windows.
StarWind is excited to present one! It is the first free all-software NVMe-oF initiator for Windows that proved its efficiency by helping us to set the HCI industry speed record.
PAD Technologies Inc., an American IT consulting company, used to work with Microsoft Windows cluster on VMware. The company required high availability (HA) at the voice server level for their voice traffic to remain seamless under any circumstances to provide excellent service for their clients.
Find out how PAD Technologies Inc. ensures replication in HA cluster environment and redundancy with StarWind.
DevMecca, an American custom software development, application hosting, and big data analysis company, intended to expand their existing hardware to virtualize the entire environment. Storage Spaces Direct option did not work out, so DevMecca turned to StarWind in order to virtualize their environment with fully redundant Supermicro servers.
Learn from the success story how StarWind helps DevMecca to setup and configure their new hardware for complete redundancy.
If your business is in finance, you already know that to manage time, money, and resources, you need to keep your applications highly available and performing at the required level. Scalability, high availability, performance, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and data backup policy are vital in the financial industry, so don't miss your chance to keep them alive and well.
Read our rubric Finance to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
Are you intrigued by recent hype around Docker? Then you will find it interesting to learn about an alternative to VMs - application containers. We can help you to find out what is it, how and when to use it, and what use cases are on a need-to-know basis.
Learn from the upcoming webinar when containers are better than VMs and what is so special about Windows containers!
The USS Midway Museum had 4-node Hyper-V failover cluster with Windows Server 2012. The organization wanted to create shared storage using commodity hardware. However, storage vendors charged exorbitant prices for outdated methods of SAN storage maintenance and imposed unprofitable support plans. With StarWind, the USS Midway Museum received shared storage that can be easily deployed on the existing commodity hardware without additional support costs.
Find out how the USS Midway Museum received such a desired high availability (HA) for its applications and saved more than $80,000 on hardware and software expenses with StarWind.
Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 Free version release can come off as deja vu because it would appear that this product has already been released and there is nothing new for you to hear about. There is a truth to it, but the previous version was taken down, so this is the new one. Therefore, both the prior users and those who want to try it might want to take a look at its features, pros and cons, and handy tips!
Read the article by Vladan Seget, a Virtualization consultant, to find out about Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 Free version release and how to download it.
It is not enough to build a functioning hyperconverged infrastructure because any IT environment needs to be constantly in check. Testing cluster performance is a necessity that requires the most serious approach. Hot news for VMware vSAN users is that they do not have to spend all that time and effort anymore since this efficient utility allows automating testing process carried out with such benchmark tools as VDbench or Fio.
Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization expert, to find out how to get maximum performance for VMware vSAN cluster using HCIBench utility.
The Newcastle High School for Girls faced problems with low resilience and limited performance and needed a shared storage cluster to fix them. They were looking for a cost-efficient virtual SAN solution suitable for Hyper-V. The Newcastle High School for Girls united all of their servers in one cluster, introducing RDS to their infrastructure.
Find out how the NHSG built a fault-tolerant cluster with StarWind and increased their performance.
H&R Reit, a Canadian property developer and management company, had a single-server infrastructure for its Microsoft Exchange Server. The environment lacked redundancy, resulting in an inappropriate amount of recovery time. The company was to look for a solution that used existing hardware resources even if they were dissimilar to avoid costly options of replacing them. StarWind helped H&R Reit to move to hyperconvergence using existing hardware resources, create a failover cluster ensuring applications uptime, and eliminate the risk of a single point of failure (SPOF).
Find out how H&R Reit provided applications uptime and redundancy for its Microsoft Exchange Server at a reasonable cost with StarWind.
Microsoft Azure users have no problem with connecting their VMs, except that its protection prospects in terms of public IP use could have been better, so the use of VPN is strongly advised, if not required. All this hussle ends with Azure Bastion, new Azure feature allowing to create RDP or SSH session from the Azure Portal, thereby relieving the users from the need to use a public IP address.
Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft Expert, to find out how to exploit new Azure Bastion feature from the preview Azure Portal.
The world is moving forward every second, so you have to keep moving if you want to make history and not stand aside from it. According to Ben Franklin, nothing is better than investing in knowledge, hence the necessity of educational institutions in the latest tech. However, a lot of things usually stand in the way, such as strict budget, limited application uptime, vulnerable data, and obsolete hardware. StarWind can remove these obstacles so you can keep your pace.
Read our rubric Education to learn how exactly we can help you or find out how your problem can be solved.
