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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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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • June 11, 2026

Enterprise Data Storage Solutions: Architectures, Features, and Trends

Storage architecture decisions directly influence application latency, recovery times, and infrastructure scalability. Our new article examines the technical characteristics of DAS, SAN, NAS, object storage, SDS, and HCI, along with the design considerations that drive enterprise deployments.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • June 9, 2026

Stateful vs stateless applications: differences and use cases

Stateful or stateless? The answer determines how services scale, recover from failures, operate in Kubernetes, and handle storage dependencies. Our latest article explains the difference between stateful and stateless workloads.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • June 5, 2026

PowerShell 7.6 Released: LTS Upgrade Guide with New Features for Datacenter Admins

Microsoft released PowerShell 7.6 LTS with 3 years of support, bringing a number of small but useful improvements for large-scale administration. Our latest article covers the technical changes, installation methods, and potential breaking changes to validate before production rollout.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • June 4, 2026

Data residency, sovereignty, and localization: a practical guide for infrastructure teams

Before deploying any workload, ask three questions: Where is the data stored? Which laws apply to it? Can it leave that jurisdiction? Our latest guide describes the differences between data residency, data sovereignty, and data localization.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • June 2, 2026

ProxCenter: The vCenter-Like Management Tool for Proxmox VE

Can Proxmox deliver a vCenter-like operational experience? Our new guide analyzes ProxCenter, including installation, API-based architecture, Ceph monitoring capabilities, and centralized management across multiple Proxmox clusters.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • May 29, 2026

Understanding RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50, and RAID 60: Comprehensive guide to RAID configurations (Part 2)

Part 2 of the RAID guide is live. If Part 1 covered striping and mirroring, this one explains the parity side of modern storage architecture: RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50, and RAID 60.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • May 27, 2026

Data tiering strategy 2026: how to balance performance, cost, and control

Your “hot tier” is probably full of data nobody has touched in months, while production workloads compete for the same expensive NVMe. Our new 2026 guide explains how modern data tiering works across hot, warm, cold, and archive storage and where cloud tiering quietly becomes expensive.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • May 26, 2026

How to Configure Static IP with Netplan on Ubuntu

Still configuring Ubuntu networking the old way? Learn from our latest guide how to configure static IPs using Netplan on modern Ubuntu servers with clean YAML configs, validation tips, multi-interface setups, and troubleshooting examples.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • May 21, 2026

Understanding RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 01: Comprehensive Guide to RAID Configurations (Part 1)

RAID still matters in 2026, but choosing the wrong RAID level can destroy performance, capacity, or resilience. Our latest guide explains RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 01 with use cases for virtualization, databases, AI staging, and production workloads.
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