While Linux virtual machines in Amazon Web Services became a widespread practice, Ubuntu decided to go further and released an OS version with a customized kernel for AWS. The AWS-tuned kernel offers up to 30 percent faster kernel boot speed while taking advantage of AWS’s Elastics Network Adapter providing high throughput of up to 20G bps for virtual instances.
Read the full article by Augusto Alvarez, Principal Consultant in Dell EMC to learn more about the AWS-tuned Ubuntu kernel.
StarWind takes the stage as a Silver Sponsor at the UK VMUG UserCon 2018 held on December 13 in Leicester, UK. VMUG UserCons are created by VMware users for VMware user to discuss the latest developments in virtualization technologies. At this conference, StarWind will present a new way of improving the performance of the traditional iSCSI protocol – iSCSI Accelerator. Feel more enthusiastic about NVMes? Meet our NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) – the protocol tailored to squeeze maximum NVMe disks’ performance!
Visit the event to learn how to vanish the latency across your storage infrastructure! Find out more about this conference at the link.
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@DustinB3403 Agree, but in most cases, 4TB HDD will be enough for a small home lab. The key is to build a cluster out of those servers, excluding an additional RAID feature.
You may have different reasons for moving the K2 database to a new SQL server instance. But there are mandatory steps you need to follow to complete this action successfully. You need to backup and restore all the data of the K2 database to a new SQL Server instance, do encryption/decryption operations, and many other things. But how can you protect your data and ensure minimum downtime?
Read the article by Mikhail Rodionov, an IT engineer, to find out how to migrate the K2 database to a different SQL Server instance safely and effectively at the following link
Microsoft has released the new Virtual Network Peering feature allowing to connect 2 Virtual Networks in the same region through the Azure Datacenter network. The new functionality allows to connect 2 Azure Resource Manager VNets in the same or different subscription or to connect ARM VNet to Classic VNet in the same subscription.
Read the full article by Florent Appointaire, a Microsoft Engineer specialized in Cloud Technologies to learn more about Azure VNet peering capabilities: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/azure-virtual-network-peering
Are you a system administrator or network engineer who wants to build a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) connection between hosts and get the maximum performance of this connection? We’ll help you to become buddy-buddy with RDMA technology. What is RDMA, how it works, what are its pros and cons, where it can be used, what is needed to use and configure an RDMA connection, how to test it and what problems can be encountered during testing - these are not all aspects we will touch on the upcoming webinar. The plot thickens: how does StarWind rPerf, all-in-one free Performance Benchmarking Tool, do all this work for you on measuring both latency and bandwidth for RDMA connections between Windows- and Linux-based operating systems? You got to admit it, there are too many questions that need to be answered.
Visit the upcoming free webinar and be on a first-name basis with RDMA technology.
The Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool v3.2 is a free utility allowing to migrate object like users, groups, computers, profiles etc. between two Windows Server Active Directory domains in the same forest using the ADMT console, command line, and VBScript. This post is particularly focused on migrating users, groups and computers account from child domain to parent domain using ADMT snap-in and PowerShell.
Read the full article by Karim Buzdar, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate for Server Infrastructure to learn more about Intraforest migration with the help of ADMT v3.2.
Are you a Windows Server user or system administrator constantly monitoring Windows operating system updates and looking for innovative solutions for your IT infrastructure? We want to help you gain insight into new storage capabilities in Windows Server 2019. What is Storage Migration Service and what improvements have been added to Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica? How can you store up to 10 times more data on the same volume with data deduplication and compression for the ReFS filesystem?
Learn from the upcoming webinar about all updates in storage in Windows Server 2019 and decide for yourself “to be, or not to be” with Windows Server 2019.
StarWind Virtual Tape Library eliminates any need for physical tapes by emulating the existing tape hardware on HDDs, accelerating the backup process and allowing it to fit the backup window. It allows transferring backups to cost efficient cloud storage like Microsoft Azure, delivering an extra level of protection and cutting down storage expenses. Integration of StarWind VTL with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager and Azure protects the data from any type of disasters and ensures the “3-2-1” backup rule.
Read the full article by Alex Khorolets, a technical support engineer at StarWind to learn how to deploy StarWind VTL as a backup repository for Microsoft SCDPM 2016 in Azure cloud storage.
The infoShare Conference in Gdańsk, May 8-9, 2019, is easily the most significant event in the technical sphere in Central and Eastern Europe. Meeting the world of innovative technologies, making useful connections, and discussing the future of technology and IT are at the table. Cyberpunk-themed Before Party sponsored by StarWind introduces you to the event before the official part starts!
A Virtual Private Network connection allows creating a secure connection over shared or public networks, such as the Internet, to a private network at a remote location. VPN can be installed on Windows Server 2016 to protect the network and remote connection from attacks or data sniffing via tunneling protocols inside of a standard data connection.
Read the full article by Vladan Seget, IT and Virtualization consultant to learn how to deploy Remote Access VPN on Windows Server 2016.
We live in a post-truth world where objective factors already have little influence on the formation of public opinion. The last word is determined by a private view and lively emotions. How to choose the Best Software Defined Storage (SDS) Vendor? Only find out the truth first-hand from customers who have already chosen this or that SDS solution.
Read what the clients say about StarWind as an SDS vendor and find the truth for yourself at IT Central Station, an online review platform, at the following link
VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) is an integration and management framework which creates a VM-centric infrastructure, where a VM and its disks become a unit of storage management for a storage system. It delivers agile storage consumption for virtual machines and provides finer control over the storage resources, allowing to provision storage according to the VM needs in a simple and dynamic way.
Learn how to build a virtualization infrastructure with VMware VVols and StarWind.
Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/how-to-easily-create-virtualization-infrastructure-with-vmware-vvols-and-starwind
Are you a Windows Server user or system administrator constantly monitoring Windows operating system updates and looking for innovative solutions for your IT infrastructure? We want to help you gain insight into new storage capabilities in Windows Server 2019. What is Storage Migration Service and what improvements have been added to Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica? How can you store up to 10 times more data on the same volume with data deduplication and compression for the ReFS filesystem?
Learn from the video about all updates in storage in Windows Server 2019 and decide for yourself “to be, or not to be” with Windows Server 2019.
Virtual Volumes (VVols) is a new storage integration and management framework in VMware vSphere, allowing virtualization environments to offload storage management operations to the storage layer. In order to deliver seamless and efficient virtualization experience, StarWind has integrated the VVols support into its products, providing the ability to provision the virtual machine with the storage that fully meets its performance requirements.
Read the full article by Dmytro Malynka, a Solutions Architect at StarWind to learn how to configure and implement StarWind VVols in VMware vSphere environment.
Are you intrigued by recent hype around Docker? Then you will find it interesting to learn about an alternative to VMs - application containers. We can help you to find out what is it, how and when to use it, and what use cases are on a need-to-know basis.
Learn from the upcoming webinar when containers are better than VMs and what is so special about Windows containers!
vCenter High Availability is a new feature introduced in VMware vSphere 6.5 allowing to deploy a highly available VMware vCenter Server cluster. The feature provides automatic failover between the Active and Passive nodes and delivers an RTO of about 5 minutes, greatly reducing the impact of host, hardware and application failures.
Learn how to set up vCenter HA to add more redundancy to your IT infrastructure.
Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/add-more-redundancy-to-your-it-infrastructure-with-vcenter-ha
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 the upcoming webinar how you can become the perfect sentinel of your SMB’s business continuity.
VMware vCenter High Availability is a feature introduced in vSphere 6.5, which delivers automatic failover and an RTO of less than five minutes. Its architecture is simple to deploy and maintain as it consists of Active, Passive and Quorum nodes and two networks. vCenter HA allows significantly reducing the impact of the host, hardware, and application failures.
Increase your IT infrastructure redundancy with vCenter High Availability.
Watch now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/add-more-redundancy-to-your-it-infrastructure-with-vcenter-ha
