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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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Benoit Voirin
  • Benoit Voirin
  • October 26, 2021

Identity as a Service (IDaaS)

IDaaS offers the benefits of hybrid IT by providing cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM). The service ensures that users are who they claim to be, and provides them with appropriate access to specific resources at a proper time. It’s maintained by the service provider and needs little resources or effort to jumpstart.
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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • October 21, 2021

Add Address Space to a Peered Virtual Network (Preview)

Microsoft introduced yet another feature to enhance its Azure users’ comfort. Before, you’d have to remove all peering of a virtual network (VNet), add new addresses to a subnet, and then redo all peering. This would entail downtime-related issues. Now, you can add new address spaces without peering deactivation. Amazing!
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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • October 19, 2021

How to Backup Virtual Appliance with Azure Backup?

Virtual Appliance is a broad concept. It could include Firewall, Scanner, Network VM, and a lot of other virtualized instances. Primarily, to back that up, you need snapshots, and backing up a Virtual Appliance in Azure wasn’t quite user-friendly before. Now, however, you can perform all the necessary actions smoothly, in a matter of a few clicks.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • October 14, 2021

How to upgrade VMware environment to vSphere 7 U3

VMware released its Upgrade 3 for vSphere 7 just a couple of days ago. As usual, the update includes a lot of new features, compatibility extensions, etc. Like always, you should approach the upgrade process comprehensively and make all the necessary preparations to conclude the switch as smoothly as possible.
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Mikhail Rodionov
  • Mikhail Rodionov
  • October 12, 2021

Azure Key-Value Data Store Services Overview

 Azure key-value store services comprise a subset of NoSQL (non-relational) data services for semi-structured data, which offer you a key-value data store. Common use cases would be when you need: simplest and fastest NoSQL data store; fast, high-volume data ingestion; quick read-write operations; or when data structure/number per entity is varied. Sounds complicated, but we’ve laid it all out in simple terms.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • October 7, 2021

Create a custom image for your Windows 365 deployment

Previously, we talked about the new release of Windows 365 and how to deploy it by default. Today, we’re sharing how you can get creative. You can create your own custom Windows 365 deployments by utilizing Azure VM generation 1 and generation 2 images. It might sound daunting, but we’ve broken everything down for you.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • October 5, 2021

Manage Windows Server 2022 with Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center (WAC) has been elevated to enable the new features and capabilities of Windows Server 2022 (WS2022). WAC is a multi-faceted browser-based management tool that allows integrating WS2022 to the fullest extent possible, covering a wide range of IT infrastructure use cases.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • September 30, 2021

VMware Multi-Writer Option for VMDK Disks in VMware vSphere for Clustering Solutions

Everything is a bit too complicated when it comes to vSphere, and this feature is no exception. While configuring vSphere clusters, your VMs may need to be accessed by various hosts simultaneously or several VMs in a cluster need to write at once within the same host. Sounds quite routine, but there are several “hoops” to jump through to set that up properly.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • September 28, 2021

VMware vSphere 7 U2 Persistent memory

vSphere Persistent Memory (PMem) was introduced in vSphere 6.7. It has seen many updates since, up until vSphere 7 U2. It’s a great non-volatile memory technology for super low latency applications that need the best-possible storage with low latency. However, there is much to look out for in terms of support, performance, configuration, and cost.
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