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    Oleg Pankevych
  • May 19, 2025
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
    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
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StarWind V2V Converter Overview (Part 1): Converting VMs to and from Oracle VirtualBox
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    Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • 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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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • March 24, 2022

No Active Directory for your AVD? Not an issue with Azure AD Join

Connecting Azure Active Directory (AD) joined VMs to Azure Virtual Desktop (VD) is a sure-fire way to simplify environment operation in your VDI. This way, you can skip your Azure VMs having line-of-sight of on-prem or virtualized AD Domain Controller (DC), deploying AD Domain Services, and sometimes its can even remove the need for DC entirely. Less complication, more efficiency.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • March 22, 2022

VMware vSphere Native Key Provider Best Practices

There are many “moving parts” to cybersecurity, among which, encryption is on the frontline. Previously, you’d have to use a third-party key management solution to facilitate security in a vSphere environment. Now, you can use Native Key Provider to integrate vSAN encryption, VM encryption, and virtual Trusted Platform Modules (vTPM).
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • March 17, 2022

VMware App Volumes On-Demand Applications: How Does It Work?

VMware App Volumes is a software solution meant to deliver ready-to-use apps right to the users’ VMs, providing them with instant access to the required application. Formerly belonging to the CloudVolumes, it was released as the part of VMware Horizon line to decouple package management and delivery. Packaging once and deploying everywhere, VMware App Volumes brings the user experience to the whole new level.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 15, 2022

VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) to optimize desktop and server OS

VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) is a neat piece of software to optimize your on-prem or cloud OS. Originally designed for VMware Horizon, OSOT is fully applicable to Windows desktop and Windows Server. It allows to eliminate unneeded settings, switch off features, clean up older junk from your OS, and otherwise enhance its functionality.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • March 10, 2022

Join Windows 365 instances to Azure AD only

Windows 365 is Microsoft’s recent twist on virtual desktop infrastructure. Microsoft also calls it “your PC in the cloud.” Initially, Windows 365 wasn’t able to work with only Azure Active Directory (AD), requiring Hybrid AD Join. Now, this has been simplified, so you can easily connect your Windows 365 “PCs in the cloud” to “Azure AD only” in just a few steps.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • March 8, 2022

Active Directory Kerberos changes and new Azure Active Directory Kerberos feature

Kerberos is an authentication protocol that has been around since Windows Server 2000. It is the gold standard for on-premises Active Directory authentication. Azure, however, didn’t support it. To further enhance the security and interoperability of its environments, Microsoft announced changes to Kerberos and its Azure Active Directory compatibility.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • February 23, 2022

Move Microsoft Sentinel Logs to Azure Storage

You may need your Sentinel logs in long-term retention based on government requirements. Azure Log Analytics starts charging for such retention after 90 days have elapsed. However, you can use a Playbook that creates an Azure Storage account and, after 90 days, automatically moves such logs to cold storage to avoid retention billing.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 22, 2022

Microsoft Security Applications New Names and improvements

Microsoft constantly evolves and changes, and so do its products and features. This is especially relevant for the continuous expansion of Azure cloud and its hybrid cloud capabilities. This time, we’ll talk about the changes in names and functionality when it comes to products previously known under the Azure Defender and Sentinel umbrellas.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • February 16, 2022

Publish an application with Azure Virtual Desktop

Deploying an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI) is only the beginning of the journey. Further, you’d need to provision applications to various users with varying authentication policies and rights. Don’t worry, the process is much easier than you might think: just a few clicks, and you’ll get the hang of it.
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