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You can hardly find a more long-expected event in cloud data management sphere than VeeamON 2019 premier conference in Miami, May 20-22, 2019.

Attending breakout sessions with tracks on the latest industry trends and gaining insights from leaders of the industry are the primary reasons for visiting.

As a leading vendor, StarWind cannot miss an event of such scale and takes the stage as a bronze sponsor, booth #411!

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Supermicro company, ranking one of the leading positions in server development, has recently released two compact servers: SuperServer E200-8D and SuperServer E300-8D. Delivering powerful characteristics together with minimal deployment space, these servers become a perfect fit for educational purposes, virtualization and running minor networking and firewall applications or security appliances.

Read the full article by Alex Khorolets, a technical support engineer at StarWind to learn more about Supermicro servers

Microsoft Active Directory allows organizations to store and manage network resources, including users, computers, and services in a centralized and standardized system. Domain controllers are the server computers responsible for user authentication in a Windows domain. To provide fault tolerance of your environment, each domain requires two functioning domain controllers located on different servers.

Watch our webinar to learn useful tips on setting up domain controllers in your infrastructure.
Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/dedicated-live-demo-session

The so-called “grid architecture” allows building a high-performing and fault-tolerant cluster without losing the principle of “data locality” for maximum performance. In such cluster topology, nodes are connected into a single grid, delivering a high resiliency rate and allowing the cluster to stay operational even after multiple nodes failure.

Join our Tap Room to learn about the benefits that StarWind Grid Architecture will bring to your IT infrastructure.
Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/dedicated-live-demo-session-next

Dell Performance Analysis Collection Kit is a free and agentless tool providing the full information on the IT environment performance and estimating opportunities for its virtualization. DPACK analyzes such core parameters as disk IO, throughput, capacity and memory utilization and provides two types of reports: in-depth individual server report and an aggregation of resource needs across disparate servers with a simulation of those workloads when migrated to shared platforms.

Watch our webinar to learn how to properly analyze your environment with Dell DPACK.
Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/dedicated-live-demo-session

Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers are responsible for granting or denying user’s access to system-wide resources, such as printers, documents, and network locations using the single name and password. Proper configurations, such as setting up two Domain Controllers and backing up one of them, allow creating a fault-tolerant and highly available environment.

Learn about proper Active Directory Domain Controllers configurations to create a fault-tolerant environment.

Watch now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/useful-tips-for-setting-up-microsoft-active-directory-domain-controllers-video

To get the precise and correct picture of your storage performance, several factors must be considered, such as system's speed and capacity, processing power, network bandwidth and disks. Therefore, the most important indicators for proper storage benchmark are the number of IOPS, latency and network throughput. StarWind Storage Test tool provides a detailed information on these characteristics and allows comparing your local storage and highly available shared storage performance.

Learn how to properly measure your storage performance using StarWind Storage Test tool.

Watch the video: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/compare-the-performance-of-your-local-storage-and-starwind-highly-available-shared-storage

StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam hardens your IT environment security by performing ransomware-resistant Virtual Tape Library backups – ransomware simply can’t talk tape. Moreover, StarWind Cloud VTL offloads your backups to Amazon S3 and Glacier cloud storage, allowing to recover your data even when the entire local site has been compromised.

Learn how to improve your IT infrastructure security with StarWind Cloud VTL for AWS and Veeam.

Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/hardening-infrastructure-with-ransomware-resistant-starwind-cloud-vtl-for-aws-and-veeam

VMware vCenter Server provides flexible options for setting performance metrics, allowing to change statistics collection levels, intervals and retention period. Additionally, it delivers the ability to set an approximate size of the virtual infrastructure in the host servers and VMs and thus, estimate the vCenter database size.

Read the full article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization technology professional, to learn more about setting performance metrics in VMware vCenter Server.

To save valuable time and efforts users typically spend on monitoring their IT environment, StarWind has introduced ProActive Support. It ensures constantly high services availability and data security, as StarWind support team monitors any potential issues in the environment and resolves them before they become a major threat to the production environment.

Join our webinar to learn about all the benefits of StarWind ProActive Support!

Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-proactive-support-prevent-issues-instead-of-dealing-with-the-consequences

Ceph is an open-source software storage platform delivering the ability to simply manage vast amounts of data. It is based on the Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS) technology providing applications with the object, block, and file system interfaces in a single unified storage cluster, making Ceph easily scalable and highly reliable.

Join our live Tap Room meeting to learn how Ceph provides simple storage scalability and ultimate resiliency!

Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/discovering-ceph-easily-scalable-and-highly-reliable-storage-platform

VMworld 2017 is coming!

Take part in our online raffle on August 29 and get your chance to win an awesome Samsung Gear 360 with StarWind!
Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/vmworld-2017-starwind-raffle

Server maintenance is usually followed by the time- and effort consuming period of synchronization resumption. Furthermore, the system performance drops significantly since only one node is running the entire production. Fortunately, this scenario can be avoided by setting the StarWind infrastructure in the “maintenance” mode.
In this Tap Room, StarWind expert discusses the benefits of the StarWind "maintenance" mode and demonstrates the feature working.

Join our live session to find out a way to keep the system running as fast as usual right after maintenance!

Register now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/increase-system-uptime-with-new-starwind-feature-maintenance-mode

Maintenance Mode is a StarWind Virtual SAN feature that eliminates the downtimes caused by the planned nodes’ shutdowns. It allows keeping nodes in the pre-synchronized state so that synchronization resumption is not needed. As a result, the system doesn’t experience any performance and availability degradation.

Discover all the benefits of StarWind Virtual SAN new feature - Maintenance Mode.

Watch the video: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/increase-system-uptime-with-new-starwind-feature-maintenance-mode

@dafyre Exactly That is the reason why this feature was created

First introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Storage Spaces is a feature providing fault tolerance to virtual disks using mirroring, parity, or even both. Basically, it serves as a distributed, software RAID aggregating the drives in the pool. Thus, it becomes a perfect fit for building Multi-Resilient Tier on Microsoft Windows Server 2016.

Read the full article by Vitalii Feshchenko, a support Engineer at StarWind, to learn how to configure Multi-Resilient Volume on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 using Storage Spaces.

As you probably know, PowerShell is a powerful scripting language. Since some time, VMware has provided PowerCLI which is a set of modules for managing VMware vSphere including VMware NSX and vSAN. These modules allow you automating a lot of routine tasks such as VM creation, host deployment, and others.

Read the full article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant in Lyon, to learn more about the PowerCLI functionality.

Creating a cost-efficient High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solution for your mission-critical databases in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition is no problem.

There are two options: Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) and Basic Availability Groups (BAGs). However, the real problem arises when customers start choosing between implementing FCI or BAGs. Understanding key differences between these two features is crucial for picking up the proper HA DR solution and avoiding unnecessary expenses.

Read the White Paper by Edwin M Sarmiento, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, to learn about the differences between FCI and BAGs in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition offers two features allowing to ensure High Availability for your environment and build a reliable Disaster Recovery solution. Those are Basic Availability Groups (BAGs) and Failover Cluster Instances (FCI). Although both features have their benefits, FCI also poses significant limitations. However, they can be easily removed by bringing in such Software-Defined Storage solutions as Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and StarWind Virtual SAN.

Read the full article by Dima Yaprincev, a Solutions Architect at StarWind, to learn about all the pros and cons of BAGs and FCI.