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  • Oleg Pankevych
    Oleg Pankevych
  • May 19, 2025
How to Build a Highly Available 2-Node Proxmox Cluster with StarWind VSAN
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 22, 2025
Setting up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as Hardened Repository for Veeam B&R
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • July 31, 2025
Software-Defined Storage: Guide to Top SDS Vendors 
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  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
    Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • May 14, 2025
DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison
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  • Ivan Ischenko
    Ivan Ischenko
  • February 12, 2025
Proxmox vs Hyper-V: A Comprehensive Comparison
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  • Orest Lesyuk
    Orest Lesyuk
  • March 11, 2026
Microsoft SQL Server High Availability: Always On Availability Groups VS Failover Cluster Instances. What to choose and when?
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  • Alex Khorolets
    Alex Khorolets
  • April 11, 2025
Turn two VMware vSphere hosts into a full-blown cluster without breaking the bank, in 5 easy steps
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • March 24, 2025
What is Business Continuity?
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • January 21, 2025
How to Create a File Share with StarWind VSAN
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  • Vladyslav Savchenko
    Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 19, 2025
StarWind V2V Converter Overview (Part 1): Converting VMs to and from Oracle VirtualBox
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  • Diana Abo Harmouch
    Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • June 10, 2025
What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?
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  • Daryna Havrada
    Daryna Havrada
  • April 3, 2025
VMware vSphere vSwitch Load Balancing Options: A Complete Guide
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • October 8, 2026

Top 10 Free VMware Alternatives (Excluding Microsoft)

VMware is no longer the only option for enterprise virtualization. Our new article by compares 10 free VMware alternatives, including Proxmox VE, XCP-ng, SimpleVM, Harvester, OpenStack, and more.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • October 7, 2026

Ceph on Linux: Build a 3-Node Storage Cluster in 9 Steps

Ready to build your own software-defined storage? Our latest article walks through deploying a 3-node Ceph cluster on Linux with cephadm, from bootstrap to OSDs, pools, and CephFS.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • September 30, 2026

How to Configure Multipath I/O on AlmaLinux for Enterprise Storage

Configure redundant SAN paths on AlmaLinux with DM Multipath. Our new guide covers setup, WWID checks, stable aliases, vendor settings, and failover testing.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • September 23, 2026

Thinware SimpleVM: A Practical Free-Forever KVM Hypervisor for VMware Administrators Seeking a Smarter Path Forward

Looking for a practical alternative to VMware? Thinware SimpleVM is a free-forever KVM hypervisor with web-based management, clustering, live migration, high availability, and optional professional support.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • September 16, 2026

Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1: A Centralized vCenter Alternative for Proxmox Environments

Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1 brings centralized management to multi-cluster Proxmox environments. Our new article looks at automated deployment, Ceph monitoring, centralized VM management, and how PDM compares with VMware vCenter.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • September 9, 2026

Education IT infrastructure: how to build reliable systems and reduce downtime

Learn how to build a reliable education IT infrastructure that minimizes downtime through high availability, backup strategies, resilient network design, and recovery planning for schools, colleges, and universities.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • September 2, 2026

How to keep Manufacturing IT failures from stopping production

Manufacturing IT has different requirements from a typical enterprise environment. Latency, local availability, recovery time, and plant conditions all affect infrastructure design. Our new article looks at how to build resilient IT infrastructure around manufacturing workflows.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • September 1, 2026

How to Deploy Omnissa App Packages via In-Guest VHD: Part 4

Part 4 completes the Omnissa App Volumes In-Guest VHD series. This guide shows how application packages are captured as VHDs, assigned through Active Directory, and delivered to Horizon desktops without vCenter-managed disk attachment.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • August 27, 2026

RDMA: A Deep Dive into Remote Direct Memory Access

RDMA is often reduced to the idea of “zero-copy” or “bypassing the CPU.” The reality is more nuanced. Check out our latest guide to learn how RDMA works, its deployment requirements, troubleshooting considerations, and practical use cases.
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