As you know, there is no shortage of technologies to establish the connection of external peripheral devices. Still, while such options as FireWire or Thunderbolt already had their finest hour, USB remains the most popular choice, and USB support in VMware vSphere allows its users to maintain high-speed connections to servers, hypervisor, and virtual machines (VMs)!

Read the article by Andrea Mauro, a Virtualization expert, to find out details about USB support in VMware vSphere.

You have probably already covered the basics of Django installation on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. This framework now is ready for the ride, but, as you know, there's always room for improvement. If you have a little interest in using default SQLite database option, then it's time to opt for better!

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to configure Django application to use MySQL database.

There isn't really much to say about Terraform and ways it can help you manage your environment that hasn't been already said. However, highlighting its features does not limit to deploying resources in Azure or storing passwords for security measures. Time to find out how your working process can reach more efficiency!

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer, to find out how to execute commands directly in a virtual machine (VM) when deploying the resource.

Are you a system administrator having trouble working with Hyper-V environment? Thanks to mastering PowerShell, your work environment can be as easily manageable as your own smart home, with its primary functions carried by the task automation!

Learn from this video about improving your Hyper-V environment with task automation through PowerShell.

Are you a System Administrator or IT Manager calmly kicked back in the back of your SMB’s seemingly calm IT-environment but with a nagging “what if?” in case disasters come knocking? Then it’s time to get a bit more knowledge about disaster recovery so that your cluster is impeccable always. vSphere and Hyper-V have a lot of features to help you with that. There’s also more than meets the eye when it comes to native DR and VM replication options and Azure Site Recovery in VMware and Microsoft environments.

Learn from this video how you can become the perfect sentinel of your SMB’s business continuity.

Businesses should choose only the best solution providers when switching to robust cloud infrastructures. To that end, CIOReview has published its Top 20 Most Promising IT Infrastructure Solution Providers 2019. The companies and solutions in this list bring the most cost-efficiency and technological potential to the CIO mapping and strategizing table, and StarWind HCA was recognized as just such one product.

Read the full article about how StarWind supports its customers’ business agility and continuity by enclosing a whole hyperconverged world in a single nuclear virtualization building block.

It’s always the hardest to start something but, once you do, it’s all downhill from there. Then again, you may need some encouragement and guidance to begin. Microsoft Azure is a multi-dimensional cloud service of a grand scale and getting to know it may seem intimidating. But there’s an option to start free to get the hang of it.

Read the guide by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Azure MVP, to see how you can start up your free account and which features will be available for you during the trial period.

The upcoming Episode 2 of our “Migrating Production Data” series will unveil the basics behind the Hyper-V environment migration. Our Solutions Engineers will share their knowledge on how to move production data between standalone Hyper-V servers, perform cross-version migration within a Hyper-V environment, describe the nuances of cross-hypervisor migration, and more.

Register now for the upcoming webinar and get useful knowledge about Hyper-V environment migration.

Nothing in life comes for free and, certainly, not all the little things used in Azure. Such components as RD Broker or RD Web Access, for example, are “hidden.” You won't see their apparent activity in Azure Portal, unlike the RD Host Session or Windows 10 VMs. As a result, your Azure credit will be spent without you actually using the productivity of such VMs.

Read the article by Romain Serre about using Windows Virtual Desktop to schedule the start/stop of your VMs, so that you’re fully aware of which VMs you’re using and paying for exactly.

Although you still won’t be able to install Veeam on Linux and the new Linux proxy won’t be superior to Windows Proxy in performance, there are certain benefits to consider still. For example, Linux has a smaller disk footprint, it doesn’t need a license, and it can act as a gateway server. Subsequently, there will be easier ways to maneuver within you backup.

Read the full article by Vladan Seget, where he covers the prospects of Linux Proxy in the new Veeam Backup and Replication 10, set to be released in Q1 2020.

Everybody knows Microsoft is one of the flagships of industry, and as an enterprise with such a reputation, they intend to keep it up. Yet another new upgrade shows how you can find out for yourself in practice what new can offer Active Directory Federation Services for Windows Server 2019!

Read the article by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, to find out how to upgrade Active Directory Federation Services.

Veeam Backup and Replication 10 has just recently been released, and one of its more exciting features is the ability to back up a NAS. The latter is frequently used for diverse workloads, which include huge amounts of unstructured data. It’s often served chaotically, and it's in a risk of being lost if there’s no specific fast redundancy mechanism in place.

Read the article by Romain Serre about the new feature in the latest Veeam Backup & Replication 10 that allows backing up a NAS in a simple, flexible, and scalable manner.

Generally, people like new things, especially when it comes to technology. But with the new vSphere 7 coming in, little to no focus is offered to what’s been discarded. For example, there is no more Flash-based vSphere Web Client, Platform Services Controller has been dropped, vCenter for Windows — canceled, and so on.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, about what features and tools (that you might come to miss) have been taken off of vSphere 7 with its new updates.

Part 1 of the topic considered certain basic options, like configuring screen sharing in Ubuntu and connecting to Ubuntu desktop using the VCN Viewer client. However, if you want to connect to an Ubuntu machine using some sort of virtual desktop client without opening a session locally, you may want to look into XRDP Server.

Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, a K2 and Microsoft specialist, about using XRDP Server, an open-source RDP implementation, to establish remote work for your Ubuntu.

HPE StoreVirtual VSA goes End-of-Life, meaning its users will be left without any support in case issues arise. StarWind VSAN offers free assisted migration, alleviating the stress and manual burden from HPE VSA customers. The video will introduce the special offer and cover the technicalities related to planning and executing the migration successfully.

Watch this StarWind video to learn about the balance of performance, cost-efficiency, and solid support you get by migrating from EoL HPE VSA to StarWind Virtual SAN.

LightChange was looking for a real-time storage replication provider for its customer, an Internet service provider (ISP). The ISP had two geographically disparate SANs, the 2nd one being for an imperfect failover only. Thanks to StarWind, LightChange was able to repurpose both SANs into full production while also achieving flawless HA ready for any disasters.

Find out how LightChange repurposed the existing infrastructure into an HA storage pool without having to buy any new expensive proprietary components thanks to StarWind.

NetVault (starting with release 12.3) is now compatible with StarWind Virtual Tape Library! NetVault users who want to stop using physical legacy tapes can finally do that. StarWind VTL also allows you to significantly accelerate and simplify backup and recovery, emulating tapes through virtualization while storing data on object and/or cloud storage.

Read this short guide from Quest Software explaining the benefits of StarWind VTL and how to configure it to NetVault now.

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Passenger count and their demands increase and get more diversified every year. To satisfy the ever-growing demands, versatile and robust IT infrastructure is a must. Being the underlying hyperconverged infrastructure of choice for 7 out of 10 busiest airports in the US, StarWind knows how to make your airport security and logistics function like clockwork, without any chances of downtime.

Find out today how you can ensure constant uptime and unmatched resiliency for your airport IT systems while decreasing TCO and increasing ROI at the same time.

Among other exciting things, VMworld 2020 also presented project Monterey, which is to be based on a new type of network interface controller (NIC) — SmartNIC. This new NIC rendition will include DPU (data processing unit) capabilities by using different approaches. The idea is to make more server resources available by offloading a set of workloads onto SmartNIC.

Read the new article by Andrea Mauro, a virtualization expert, on VMware SmartNIC, and how it promises to redefine our approach to compute, networking, storage, and security.