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    Oleg Pankevych
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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
  • 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
  • March 24, 2025
What is Business Continuity?
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    Vladyslav Savchenko
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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
  • June 10, 2025
What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?
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    Daryna Havrada
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VMware vSphere vSwitch Load Balancing Options: A Complete Guide
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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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Nicolas Prigent
  • Nicolas Prigent
  • May 13, 2021

Windows Sandbox Overview

Windows Sandbox is an application that creates a Windows instance fully separated from the host. It creates an isolated and secure environment where you can run files and applications without affecting the host — great for testing purposes. Once you close the sandbox, everything there is permanently deleted.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • May 11, 2021

VMware Cloud: What the Fuss is All About? Introduction

People working with hybrid infrastructures must know how tiresome it can balance the on-premises and cloud resources. If only there were an option enabling you to manage it as a single environment! Luckily, the new VMware vSphere release, VMware Cloud on AWS, has something to say.
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