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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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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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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • May 20, 2026

What is data gravity? A practical 2026 guide

Your data stack probably already has gravity. You notice it when moving workloads becomes expensive, or AI projects need years of historical data. Our latest guide explains how data gravity affects cloud, edge, AI, sovereignty, and your infrastructure strategy.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • May 19, 2026

Veeam High Availability Cluster: switchover and disassemble – Part 3

Need to perform maintenance on your Veeam HA cluster without disrupting backup operations? Learn how to run rescans, perform switchovers between nodes, and safely disassemble the cluster when needed.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • May 14, 2026

Windows 11 TPM and encryption in VMware vSphere

Deploying Windows 11 on VMware vSphere? TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, VM encryption, vTPM, and NKP are essential parts of the process. Learn how to properly configure Windows 11 VMs in vSphere 7 & 8 environment from our new guide.
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Anton Vovchuk
  • Anton Vovchuk
  • May 13, 2026

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): Architecture, Use Cases, and Implementation Guide

Hybrid work changed the desktop game. Learn how Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) centralizes management and supports remote teams, plus where VDI works best and where it doesn’t.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • May 12, 2026

Veeam High Availability Cluster: failover and automation – Part 2

Primary node down? Your backups shouldn’t go with it. In Part 2 of our Veeam High Availability Cluster series, learn how to test failover and automate recovery with Veeam ONE for faster resilience and minimal downtime.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • May 11, 2026

Control plane vs Data plane vs Management plane: What are they?

When latency spikes but dashboards look green, you’re likely debugging the wrong plane. Data, control, and management planes fail differently and recognizing the pattern is half the fix. Check out our latest guide covering failure signals and scenarios.
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