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    Oleg Pankevych
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How to Build a Highly Available 2-Node Proxmox Cluster with StarWind VSAN
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    Vladyslav Savchenko
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Setting up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as Hardened Repository for Veeam B&R
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    Vladyslav Savchenko
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • January 21, 2025
How to Create a File Share with StarWind VSAN
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    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
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  • June 10, 2025
What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?
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    Daryna Havrada
  • April 3, 2025
VMware vSphere vSwitch Load Balancing Options: A Complete Guide
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • December 6, 2022

Why cold migrations of VMs in vSphere 8.0 is over 3 times faster?

VMware introduced a number of enhancements in vSphere 8.0, including updates for vMotion. Most notably, the speed has been improved for both hot and cold migrations. However, VMware claims that cold migration is now x3 times faster than it was before. This is a positive development since previously, migration would take up too many hours.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • December 1, 2022

VMware Explore 2022: Most Important Initiatives

At VMware Explore 2022, the company introduced a lot of new products and technologies, jointly called “VMware Projects”. While some of them are rebranded solutions previously existing within the line of VMware products, others represent entirely new functionalities.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • November 29, 2022

Design the network for Azure Stack HCI

Azure Stack HCI cluster is a hybrid solution that successfully units on-premises infrastructure with Azure cloud services, managing both Windows and Linux workloads relatively easily. However, it isn’t without its problems, and most come from incorrect network configurations that decrease performance and increase latency.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • November 24, 2022

Migrate from Azure Basic Load Balancer to Standard

Microsoft announced Azure Basic Load Balancer (LB) end-of-life from September 30, 2025. Anyone using that tool will have to migrate to the new Azure Standard LB. There are several prerequisites to be made, as well as associated downtime during migration. The new format of the tool is also for-pay.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • November 22, 2022

New Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust

Microsoft recently announced Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust to help with the complexity of passwordless authentication. It is commonly thought passwords are the weakest link in a company’s cybersecurity posture. While Azure has seen various aspects of passwordless authentication, Windows has been lacking.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • November 17, 2022

What is new in VMware ESXi 8.0 – Installation, Configuration, User Interface

While VMware has been overhauling and stepping up in all arias of its vSphere environment over the last decade, it’s been sort of looking over its hypervisor. The recent VMware ESXi 8.0 has seen some new introductions here and there. Most notably, improvements are seen in its installation, configuration, and user interface (UI).
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • November 15, 2022

Veeam v11 backup to Google Cloud Storage

Veeam Backup & Recovery v11 now includes the option to backup data to Google Cloud Storage. This provides more flexibility to users who wish to choose Google over Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or other public cloud vendors. Such a feature offers further user-friendliness while still abiding by the 3-2-1 backup rule.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • November 10, 2022

vSphere 8.0 Tips to Create a VMware Golden Image for Your Windows 11 and Use a PVSCSI Controller

Windows 11 2H22 includes several new elements that make its installation into vSphere 8 and then the creation of a VMware Golden Image much easier. Before that, the OS missed some drivers that required more juggling to make things work. Now, it includes the VMware PVSCSI and VMXNET3 drivers and other stuff to fix previous issues.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • November 8, 2022

How to Replicate Azure VM to Another Azure Region using Disaster Recovery Feature

Business continuity today largely depends on data availability. There are multiple ways Microsoft allows you to achieve that with its Azure cloud services. Among many disaster resistance options, if you use more than one Azure Region, you can use disaster recovery in Azure Site Recovery to replicate your virtual machine (VM) from one region to another.
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