NRF 2022 brings together nearly 30,000 retailers, vendors, and industry experts to tackle the future of retail at their Expo. Naturally, StarWind, being one of the virtualization pioneers with years of experience, impeccable reputation, and retail customers all over the world, could not miss this event.
Visit StarWind Software Booth #917, Level 1, at NRF 2022 in Jacob K. Javits Center, New York, to learn more about retail's biggest topics.
There’s, probably, no such IT administrator who doesn’t care about the performance of his environment. That’s why StarWind HyperConverged and Enterprise Storage Appliances utilize RDMA-enabled networking from Mellanox, maximizing your IT infrastructure performance.
Join this webinar to learn how to increase the performance and efficiency of your virtualization environment.
Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/maximize-the-performance-and-minimize-the-overhead-of-your-it-infrastructure
For many years in a row, StarWind vSAN is among user-favorite hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions. Now, in PeerSpot’s rating, users commonly praise StarWind for its flexibility, simplicity, and automated running in the background. In short, customers like StarWind vSAN because it works as marketed.
Check out the new PeerSpot Top Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions in 2022 and see who else go on the shortlist along with StarWind Virtual SAN.
There’s a common opinion that the performance in general and IOPS-intensive performance like NVMf [NVMe over Fabrics] is usually lower in virtualized environments due to the hypervisor overhead.
Check out this article to prove or knock down this belief!
StarWind has been a trusted hyperconverged infrastructure partner for various authorities worldwide for many years now. We know what the sector needs and how to do it well. IT changes rapidly and StarWind helps governments adapt with reasonable costs and future-proof environments based on our constantly modernized HCI solutions.
Register in the link to attend Government IT Congress in person and learn how to make your organization's IT resilient and future-ready from StarWind Engineers themselves.
The previous article has described the overall goal of the project and all the details behind 3 scenarios for tuning and testing NVMe over Fabrics performance. Now, it’s the prime time to gear up and shift from theory to practice and prepare all the components of our testing environment.
Read the full article by Taras Shved, a Director of Sales Engineering at StarWind, to learn how to properly configure NVMe over Fabrics for its further testing.
In 2022, TrustRadius awards the Top Rated badge to both StarWind Virtual SAN and StarWind HCI Appliance. This award is the industry standard for impartial appreciation of the best B2B technology products which is calculated solely on customer feedback via reviews. This means that StarWind solutions deliver as marketed. Consumer trust always comes first.
Click on the link to learn the details about StarWind vSAN and HCI Appliance winning the award.
StarWind Hybrid Cloud provides true hybrid cloud functionality for your existing Hyper-V infrastructure by extending it to the Azure public cloud. StarWind replicates the data between the locations, allowing to migrate workloads and create a Highly Available cluster on-premises and Azure. Furthermore, the solution is exceptionally simple to manage thanks to 5nine Manager.
Watch this video to learn more about all the benefits of StarWind Hybrid Cloud: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/manage-your-azure-hybrid-cloud-workloads-with-5nine-and-starwind
This StarWind webinar will focus on how you can benefit from adding ZFS to your infrastructure without going through a steep learning curve. Frequently, ZFS-based solutions on the market aren’t easy or straightforward in their integration into a virtualization environment. StarWind tackles that by presenting ZFS features in a streamlined software solution that you can add to your new, existing, or even aging hardware in just a few clicks.
Register now for the upcoming webinar to learn how StarWind SAN & NAS provides a simple way to add ZFS to your infrastructure and effectively use it in your virtualization environment.
vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) is a pre-configured Linux virtual machine designed for managing the whole vSphere infrastructure. Over several VCSA releases, VMware managed to make this product equal to the Windows-based one and pushes the development even further. However, many VMware admins are also Microsoft guys and like the graphical user interface to work with. However, we have 5 hints that will help you managing vCSA just as easily as you do with the Windows-based vCenter server.
Read the full article by Vladan Seget, an IT and Virtualization consultant, to learn how to manage VMware vCenter Server Appliance with ease.
G2, an independent tech solutions peer review platform, has published its Fall 2022 Reports on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions.
Considering several criteria, like ease of use, likeliness to recommend, and customer support, StarWind Virtual SAN and StarWind HCI Appliance are among the top leaders in the space based on user feedback.
Read the new G2 Fall 2022 Report on HCI Solutions to find out what users like about StarWind products the most and who else ended up on the leaders’ list.
As we all know, Microsoft Failover Cluster is a group of independent computers that work together to increase the availability and scalability of clustered roles. In its latest Failover Cluster 2016 version, Microsoft has added some new features that will provide your environment with additional resiliency and redundancy. These include Storage QoS, Shared VHDX, VM Compute Resiliency, VM Storage Resiliency, and many more.
Read the full article by Vitalii Feshchenko, a Post-Sales Support Engineer at StarWind, to learn more about the new feature in Microsoft Failover Cluster 2016.
What do third-wave coffee and hyperconvergence have in common? We all heard about them as of high quality and something special. But you never know for sure until you try it yourself. We can't convey the taste of coffee, but we can tell you all about hyperconvergence and hyperconverged infrastructures (HCIs). Today we’re launching our free large-scale "Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Educational Episodes" project starting with video 1 devoted to the HCI. In the video, we talk about HCI as it is and the ways of deploying data center infrastructures and compare traditional, converged, and hyperconverged systems. Do you want to know if hyperconvergence is really the best way for your data centers?
Find out and watch the full video at the following link.
Why choose either private or public cloud if you can use benefits of them both? That, actually, is what StarWind achieves with its recent solution, StarWind Hybrid Cloud. It allows complementing your on-premises IT infrastructure with any public cloud, be it Azure, AWS, or GoogleCloudPlatform. Now, you can scale compute and storage resources whenever you want by means of the public cloud instead of buying new hardware. StarWind Hybrid Cloud keeps your data highly available and secure by providing active-active data replication between on-premises and public cloud.
Learn about StarWind Hybrid Cloud, the solution combining the best of private and public clouds.
Communication is vital for life, even for your storage infrastructure. In the second video within StarWind’s education project, we discuss one of the most important parts of hyperconvergence, namely how software-defined storage (SDS) communicates with storage devices. The video “Storage Protocols: Why are they of utmost importance for the HCI?” is already on stream!
Watch the episode about storage protocols (iSCSI, SMB, NFS, FC, NVMe-oF) and little things that you didn’t know about them by following this link.
Achieve unrivalled performance with StarWind Fractal SAN powered by Mellanox. Recently, StarWind has released its Enterprise Storage Appliance, codename Fractal SAN. Running on top of Ceph and being powered by Mellanox, this solution ensures unmatched performance and resiliency.
Watch this video and gain insight in Mellanox and StarWind joint solution.
There’s nothing better than meeting the actual engineers behind a product to better understand how you and your business can benefit from it. You can do just that during Storage2Day 2022! Come to the event to hear all about the latest storage tech developments and, of course, about how StarWind makes any storage outperform anything you’d expect.
Visit Storage2Day to hear from our engineers firsthand how you can enhance your business continuity and IT infrastructure cost-effectiveness with StarWind.
Migrating on-premises VHD files to Microsoft Azure may be quite a headache for system administrators. The remedy to this problem lies in PowerShell and Azure Portal. Simple as that! Using some PowerShell commands and Azure Portal functionality, you can accomplish that task as “1-2-3”.
Read the full article by Nicolas Prigent, a Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management, to learn how to migrate your VHD file to Azure easily.
We are happy to inform you that the 3rd video of the “Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Educational Episodes” project is already available for viewing. In it, we’ll look into the very heart of the IT infrastructure and talk about storage, characterizing SAN, NAS, and DAS, comparing HDDs and SSDs, and most importantly, coming at the truth about the best-suited storage for the HCI.
Join our cost-free project and watch the “Storage & types of storage media: How to choose the best for the HCI?” episode by following this link.
Storage tiering allows ensuring maximum storage utilization efficiency while also improving its performance. What is more, by combining StarWind Virtual SAN with tiered Microsoft Storage Spaces, you ensure the high level of redundancy and fault tolerance for your data.
Learn how to ensure your data high availability with StarWind Virtual SAN tiered storage.
