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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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Vladislav Karaiev
  • Vladislav Karaiev
  • April 29, 2026

What is Ceph and Ceph Storage?

Ceph comes up a lot in storage discussions, but it’s not always clear how it works. Our latest article explains Ceph architecture, trade-offs, and where it makes sense (and where it doesn’t).
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • April 28, 2026

How to Monitor Server Health on Ubuntu 24.04 Using Netdata or Prometheus

If you’re running Ubuntu 24.04, monitoring should be part of your setup. Netdata for instant visibility, Prometheus for deeper metrics – our new tutorial explains how to get both running.
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Vladyslav Savchenko
  • Vladyslav Savchenko
  • April 23, 2026

Structured vs Unstructured Data: Differences, Examples and Use Cases

Most teams call themselves data-driven. In reality, they’re working off the 10-20% that fits into tables. The rest sits in emails, PDFs, logs, chats. Our new guide explains structured vs unstructured vs semi-structured data and where each matters.
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Michael Rakitin
  • Michael Rakitin
  • April 22, 2026

Continuous Data Protection: How it works and when it earns its complexity

Data changes constantly, and your backup strategy should too. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) captures every write in real time, giving you the ability to recover exactly when things go wrong. Check out our new article for a detailed CDP technical overview.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 21, 2026

iVentoy: A Powerful PXE Boot Tool for IT Admins – Why It’s Essential in Your Toolkit

Instead of juggling USB drives and manual mounts, iVentoy offers a centralized, network-based approach. Our new article walks you through iVentoy’s architecture, use cases, limitations, and setup process.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • April 16, 2026

Active-Active vs Active-Passive: Key Differences, Benefits & Use Cases

Active-active and active-passive HA architectures differ in failover orchestration, state synchronization, and resource utilization. Our new article provides a structured comparison across clustering and storage layers.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 15, 2026

Veeam and XCP-NG: Agentless Incremental Backups for a VMware Alternative

Veeam has introduced a plugin for XCPng that enables agentless incremental backups using CBT. Our new article reviews what is currently supported, how stable the integration is in testing, and which features are still missing ahead of GA.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • April 14, 2026

IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second): Key Storage Performance Metric

If you are benchmarking storage or planning upgrades, understanding IOPS is essential. Our new article explains how to interpret IOPS correctly and align it with your workloads.
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Ivan Ischenko
  • Ivan Ischenko
  • April 8, 2026

Scalable Storage Guide: Architecture, Concepts, and Examples 

Most storage issues show up after deployment: uneven latency, slow rebuilds, and network bottlenecks. Our latest guide covers how scalable storage works and what to validate before you commit.
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