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Setting up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as Hardened Repository for Veeam B&R
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Software-Defined Storage: Guide to Top SDS Vendors 
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    Volodymyr Khrystenko
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DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison
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    Ivan Ischenko
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Proxmox vs Hyper-V: A Comprehensive Comparison
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    Orest Lesyuk
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Microsoft SQL Server High Availability: Always On Availability Groups VS Failover Cluster Instances. What to choose and when?
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    Alex Khorolets
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Turn two VMware vSphere hosts into a full-blown cluster without breaking the bank, in 5 easy steps
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What is Business Continuity?
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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
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • June 22, 2021

How to Setup Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH in Linux

Cybersecurity threats increase by the day, especially, with the widespread adoption of remote work. To reduce compromise odds, you can add multi-factor authentication to any applications that require logging in. Adding a token-based security layer, for example, to your Linux SSH will boost your chances against threats via the network.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • June 17, 2021

Configure Conditional Access to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication to access Azure Portal

You can increase your Azure Portal Security by configuring Conditional Access, an Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium P1 feature, to enforce multi-factor authentication. The feature collects various signals from user IP location to group membership, allows you to see them in real-time, and decide whether to allow or deny application access to AD or allow limited access.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • June 15, 2021

Planned maintenance and auto-upgrade for AKS

Microsoft has recently added two new features to help with your daily Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) work. The first feature allows you to schedule maintenance windows every week to minimize workload impact. The second one offers different auto-upgrade variations where you can tweak what’ll happen to your existing version, when, and how.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • June 10, 2021

Quick tips to defend your backups from ransomware encryption and deletion

There are various options to ensure backup safety today. The 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies of data, on 2 different media, 1 of them being off-site) is a must. But it’s not enough. Keeping your backups in an independent network separate from Windows Active Directory, privilege managing, using backup software, like StarWind VTL — these and other extra steps are necessary to ensure thorough data protection.
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • June 8, 2021

How to Build a Desktop Flow with Power Automate Desktop?

Automation in daily IT has become a standardized necessity rather than an advantage. Power Automate Desktop builds on the inherent robotic process automation of Power Automate. The solution allows you to automate all of your repetitive desktop processes. But the best thing is that the application is now free for all Windows 10 users!
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • June 1, 2021

Migrating a Citrix XenServer VM to VMware

StarWind V2V Converter / P2V Migrator is a convenient tool for converting and cloning physical machines, virtual disks, and VMs across various scenarios (P2V / V2V / P2C / V2C / C2C). The software solution is free and compatible with all industry-standard hypervisors, like VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen Project, and KVM.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • May 25, 2021

How to integrate a Linux system with Windows Active Directory

There are many cases that may entail meeting points between Windows and Linux environments. Such may involve enrolling Linux systems into a Windows domain, configuring a Linux domain as a peer to the Windows one, or simply copying information between them. Whatever your goal is, we’ve prepared a clear guide on how to join the two.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • May 20, 2021

Populate Computer Groups Automatically from Registry Key for Azure Update Management

Azure Automation Update Management is primarily used for orchestrating Windows Server and Linux updates. But it can also be configured to add target machines or machine groups for updating automatically, using a registry key. One less headache! Otherwise, you’d have to add machines or machines to groups manually.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • May 18, 2021

Configure vSphere 7 Lifecycle Manager/VMware Update Manager (VUM)

vSphere 7 Update 2 adds to the functionality of Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), including new capabilities for ESXi lifecycle management at the cluster level. You can now remediate hosts with business priorities and leverage fast upgrades, configure Quick Boot for OEM solutions, upgrade without migrating host VMs, and do other cool stuff.
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