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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
  • 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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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • May 12, 2022

Customized DUO MFA for Veeam hardened repositories – Part II

In Part 1, we discussed the technology behind Duo Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and how to configure it to protect the credentials for a Veeam hardened repository. We continue the cybersecurity topic, following the steps necessary for adding a public key authentication and making sure it works with the established configuration.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • May 10, 2022

Customized DUO MFA for Veeam hardened repositories – Part I

Protection is vital in both real and digital environments. An irresponsible approach to cybersecurity, especially with remote work, will ultimately lead to compromise. Security compromise can lead to credentials being phished and ransomware getting in. Veeam Backup & Recovery, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Cisco Duo can help avoid that.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • May 5, 2022

How to install iTOP IP Address Management Tool in Linux

Modern businesses deal with an ever-growing amount of systems and networking devices, which, in turn, deal with an insane amount of IP addresses. Keeping track of such IP addresses is a real problem. iTOP Combodo has a useful piece of software that’s been developed just with these problems in mind.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • May 3, 2022

What is VMware Dynamic Environment Manager and How it helps with OS configuration?

The software provides the ability to configure the entirety of a user’s profile at scale. It’s designated for cloud desktops, physical desktops, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with VMware Horizon, and remote desktop services (RDS). You can configure the entirety of the user’s experience as well as the desired relevant OS settings.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • April 28, 2022

DELL R740XD2 Configuration For Veeam Hardened Repositories

There is a huge list of servers one could use as backup targets. So much so, that there isn’t really one right option. It depends on an organization’s requirements, wants, and needs. However, like with many things in life, there’s always a go-to scenario. We’ve distilled the necessary tips and configurations for your reading pleasure in a short form.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • April 26, 2022

Overview of System Center 2022 New Features

Although Microsoft continues to increase its Windows Server and Azure presence, most businesses still prefer a hybrid environment. Managing a hybrid cloud is more complicated, as you also need to operationalize your on-premises IT environment at scale. Here is where System Center comes into play, along with its new functionality.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • April 21, 2022

Move your Azure resources in CLI instead of using the portal

In addition to using Azure Portal, there is also the ability to migrate desired resources using CLI (command-line interface). This way, you can bypass the long waiting time for the Portal to perform validation and then enact the move. Instead, you can type in certain commands and start moving resources to another group, subscription, or region right away.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 19, 2022

VMware Imager Free Utility for automated way to build clean Windows 10 VMs

VMware Imager allows automating the process of building Windows 10 virtual machines. Instead of setting up a Golden VM image, you can choose the desired features in Imager and set off the pipeline. This eases the admin routine, reducing reliance on a specific task and human errors. You can stop the process at any stage and tweak stuff, too.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • April 13, 2022

Benchmarking Backup Appliance with GRAID based on StarWind SAN & NAS

With NVMe SSDs quickly erupting as the desired storage standard, common RAID technology isn’t able to provide any longer. StarWind, being ahead of IT infrastructure trends, has already solved this bottleneck. Empowered with GRAID  SupremeRAID™, the world’s first NVMe-oF RAID card, and StarWind SAN&NAS SDS, StarWind Backup Appliance unleashes the entire potential of NVMe for both backup performance and backup data security.
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