Educational Episodes: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

This post shares my hands-on experience testing StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows with a Linux SPDK NVMe-oF Target. The goal was to evaluate how efficiently the initiator handles NVMe drives presented over RDMA and see how close it can get to local device performance.

Ready to level up your Azure skills? Check out how to quickly set up a lab environment to start experimenting with Git submodules in Azure DevOps.

Planning to migrate to Microsoft Azure? Discover the 7 essential steps for a successful Azure migration.

Windows 10 Creator Update introduced Quick Create to Hyper-V, the feature allowing to create a custom VM from a Hyper-V Quick Create gallery image. It is a handy tool for testing new software or OS features which developers and guys in QA may enjoy a lot. This being said, I describe today how to create a VM template and add it to a gallery.

What’s new in VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1? Explore enhanced cloud management, seamless upgrade flows, advanced Private AI and GPU monitoring, and lots of other improvements.

Server virtualization helped businesses increase productivity and efficiency of their IT infrastructures by abstracting physical servers’ workloads from the underlying hardware with little to no loss of functionality, VDI applied quite the same logic. Desktops and applications run inside virtual machines that are hosted centrally, either on a server or in the cloud. The purpose of VDI is to deliver fully-featured user desktops to a variety of devices including conventional PCs, thin clients, and even zero-client endpoints. But how something that was seen as a bright alternative to the traditional server-based computing model used by Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services a decade ago ended up being a niched deployment?

See what really affects data consistency in storage setups. Includes examples of how things go wrong and how to prevent it.

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Relying on a single cloud for your backups? It’s time to rethink your strategy. Explore 5 top-notch cross-cloud solutions that diversify your backup storage for maximum reliability.