StarWind launches a large-scale free education project to bring you closer to the world of hyperconvergence and virtualization technologies. Life-long education is one of the highest values both for career development and business growth.
So what StarWind Team wants to achieve is creating the value of knowledge in HCI for your special benefit. Be first to comprehend the power of education from StarWind.
In the first video, we unlock all the secrets of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI): what it actually is, how it works, and what it brings to your data center. Today, hyperconvergence is at the heart of the best solutions from the leading vendors on the market for deploying data center infrastructures.
Along with that, is this approach really the best way for your data centers? In the video, we will take a close look at hyperconvergence and tell you about everything in the smallest detail, where it all started and where it all came from.
In the second video, we discuss one of the most important parts of hyperconvergence, namely how software-defined storage (SDS) is presenting or sharing storage devices back to the system. There are the four most commonly used protocols such as Internet Small Computer System (iSCSI), Fibre Channel (FB), Network File System protocol (NFS), and Server Message Block (SMB), and we will describe the characteristics of each of them. In addition, we will dig deeper and spill the beans: why none of these common protocols are suitable for NVMe drives.
In the third video, we disclose the full scoop of the storage topic and the ways of storage presentation to the servers. There are three main storage systems, namely DAS (Direct Attached Storage), NAS (Network Attached Storage), and SAN (Storage Area Network), each with its own strengths and weaknesses. We talk about each of them in depth, so you can choose the system fitting your business requirements in the best possible way. We also compare the different types of storage basis, that is HDDs and SDDs, and tell you what is still best suited for hyperconverged infrastructures.
In the fourth video, we discuss everything related to RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives): what it is, how it works, RAID types, levels, and its use cases. RAID technology is an intrinsic part of the HCI building process and is used to level up the performance and/or reliability of data storage. There are different RAID levels best suited for a specific situation, and we’ll help you to figure out each of them and get maximum performance, redundancy, and storage efficiency with the most suitable RAID.
In the fifth video, we dive into the topic of erasure coding (EC) technology: what it is, how it works, and what it can bring to organizations. Erasure coding provides advanced methods of data protection and disaster recovery. It is very closely related to the RAID technology discussed in the previous video. Therefore, we will also compare RAID and EC technology features and help you to choose the best working solution to protect your mission-critical data in HCI and achieve “always-on” availability in organizations.
In the sixth video, we touch on all aspects of the problem of choosing virtualization and containerization for building a production environment. Virtualization allows you to optimize your physical machine’s resources, abstract and redistribute them among many users or environments, thereby engaging the machine’s full capacity. But is it good for all IT strategies? In the episode, we talk about virtualization and hypervisors, explore the concept of containers, and address the issue of Docker and Kubernetes, so that you are one hundred percent sure of your choice.
