GHG Corporation, a NASA subcontractor, was having trouble with the single point of failure (SPOF) and ineffective infrastructure scalability and maintenance. The company needed a solution that would bring it solid redundancy, constant uptime, and the ability to maintain and scale its infrastructure freely and without any downtime at that. Modernizing the IT infrastructure with StarWind HCI Appliance, GHG Corporation eliminates the SPOF issue and optimizes the development process of electronic timesheet systems.

Find out how GHG Corporation achieves true fault tolerance and constant uptime with a simple 2-node HCI solution from StarWind.

Everything is a bit too complicated when it comes to vSphere, and this feature is no exception. While configuring vSphere clusters, your VMs may need to be accessed by various hosts simultaneously or several VMs in a cluster need to write at once within the same host. Sounds quite routine, but there are several “hoops” to jump through to set that up properly.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, on the multi-writer mode for VMDK virtual disks in vSphere clusters, how it works, and how to configure it correctly.

Sun Peaks Resort, a Canadian recreational facilities & services company, wanted to accelerate a turnover of its services by creating a failover cluster that would be easy to manage and grant flexibility to its IT infrastructure. However, it was badly limited in IT budget and was in search of a hyperconverged platform reasonably priced to get its top priority issues done. Using StarWind HCI Appliance, Sun Peaks Resort builds a high-availability (HA) cluster with a handy management and monitoring tool and without wasting a lot of money for buying new SANs and extra datacenter licenses.

Find out how Sun Peaks Resort increases the turnover of its services by moving to hyperconvergence with StarWind.

This StarWind webinar will dive deep into ZFS advantages and disadvantages that matter the most. It will also talk about why ZFS was never adopted by industry-standard hypervisors, such as Hyper-V and vSphere, and which workloads are suited for ZFS best. Finally, you will learn how to deploy ZFS.

Register now for the upcoming webinar to learn the actual truth behind ZFS pros and cons and which cases are best suited to make the most out of it.

AiT Services, an information and communications technology (ICT) consulting company from Trinidad & Tobago, was looking for a solution to improve data security and ensure redundancy for its customer. The client’s infrastructure was end-of-life (EoL) and had no proper virtualization. The absence of downtime was paramount for the client. By choosing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), AiT Services was able to secure true redundancy for its client and also achieve higher cost-efficiency as well as better solution user-friendliness.

Find out how AiT Services was able to help its client experience constant application uptime and obtain the highest-level data protection without having to upgrade its entire EOL infrastructure thanks to StarWind.

Windows Admin Center (WAC) has been elevated to enable the new features and capabilities of Windows Server 2022 (WS2022). WAC is a multi-faceted browser-based management tool that allows integrating WS2022 to the fullest extent possible, covering a wide range of IT infrastructure use cases.

Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, on the new updates of WAC regarding WS2022 and how to best deploy the management software.

Previously, we talked about the new release of Windows 365 and how to deploy it by default. Today, we’re sharing how you can get creative. You can create your own custom Windows 365 deployments by utilizing Azure VM generation 1 and generation 2 images. It might sound daunting, but we’ve broken everything down for you.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, on how to create a custom image for your Windows 365 deployment today.

Marion County R-II School District, an American rural K-12 School District, had standalone Dell servers with Hyper-V on top and no SAN storage. Independent servers didn't provide required failover or redundancy, and unplanned reboots of the Hyper-V hosts resulted in taking many crucial servers and functions offline. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Marion County R-II School District get a solid shared storage platform and create a Hyper-V failover cluster, ensuring system scalability and reliable backup/failover in the event of hardware loss.

Find out how Marion County R-II School District fine-tune their educational services with an HA infrastructure powered by StarWind.

Illinois Community Credit Union, an American financial services institution, had an infrastructure consisting of an aging physical SAN and VMware ESXi on top. A SAN was lacking in connectivity redundancies, compromising the security of customers' financial data. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Illinois Community Credit Union ensures the required redundancy, eliminates host hardware inefficiencies and the end-of-life (EOL) SAN issue, saving over $10K on business growth.

Find out how Illinois Community Credit Union provides the highest-level protection of client financial data with StarWind.

VMware released its Upgrade 3 for vSphere 7 just a couple of days ago. As usual, the update includes a lot of new features, compatibility extensions, etc. Like always, you should approach the upgrade process comprehensively and make all the necessary preparations to conclude the switch as smoothly as possible.

Read the article by Vladan Seget on vSphere Upgrade 3, general overview of what's new, why to update, how to prepare for it, and how to perform the upgrade successfully.

Microsoft introduced yet another feature to enhance its Azure users’ comfort. Before, you’d have to remove all peering of a virtual network (VNet), add new addresses to a subnet, and then redo all peering. This would entail downtime-related issues. Now, you can add new address spaces without peering deactivation. Amazing!

Read the new post by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about the new preview feature in Azure that allows adding address spaces to a peered VNet on the fly.

Alfa Adhesives, Inc., an American chemical and allied products manufacturer, needed to improve its business profitability by building a redundant IT infrastructure with no single point of failure (SPOF). Looking for a corresponding solution to its problems, the company faced a high price of software-defined storage (SDS) and licensing of 3 nodes at least. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Alfa Adhesives creates a totally redundant 2-node system, eliminating a SPOF issue, increasing IT infrastructure performance, and saving just an unmeasurable number of money.

Find out how Alfa Adhesives accelerates business profitability by building a resilient hardware infrastructure around StarWind VSAN.

Jan-Pro Calgary, a Canadian commercial cleaning and disinfection service company, sought to create its own data center to support all the offices in many cities across Western Canada. Being an SMB company, it did not have much money to go to HP or DELL to implement this project. So, the company created a 2-node Hyper-V failover cluster with shared storage based on a shoestring budget of used servers, server rack, and uninterruptible power sources. But the data center newly created lacked a key factor, namely redundancy. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Jan-Pro Calgary makes its 2-node failover cluster redundant on both the host as well as storage, saving over $20K at the same time.

Find out how Jan-Pro Calgary gets the data center project across the finish line ensuring the continuity of its business processes with StarWind.

If you’ve switched to Active Directory (AD) authentication, you’ll need to decommission AD Federation Services (ADFS) Office 365. You’ll need to do that because Microsoft Office 365 identity platform is no longer usable after that migration. It’s not a complicated procedure but you have to execute it properly to avoid conflict.

Read the new guide by Paolo Valsecchi on how to properly decommission your ADFS Office 365 after having migrated to Azure AD authentication.

There are many ZFS advantages that have won the community’s love for the tech. However, there are also disadvantages to keep in mind. This time, we tell the truth about ZFS pros and cons. We also cover why ZFS was never adopted by such industry-standard hypervisors as Hyper-V and vSphere, and, finally, elaborate on the ways to deliver ZFS.

Watch this StarWind video to learn the actual truth behind ZFS benefits and drawbacks, which cases are best suited for ZFS use, and how you can deliver the tech.

Release Pipelines in Azure DevOps is incredibly handy for your entire software delivery. While Azure DevOps has various automation features for projects within, you can also automate various tasks regarding Azure DevOps itself. There are many ways to start your release, and today show you how to run your release through PowerShell.

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a three-time Microsoft MVP, on how to use PowerShell and REST API to start an existing release in your Azure DevOps project.

Microsoft released Azure Sentinel Solutions for public review in May 2021. The feature is a gallery that’s part of Azure Marketplace, where users can publish packages to easily integrate a product from Azure Sentinel itself. Administrators can just select a solution from the gallery, click on create, follow the wizard, and integrate the new solution, which already contains data connectors, workbooks, queries, and analytics rules templates.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, on the benefits of Azure Sentinel Solutions and how to integrate partner products from its gallery in a snap.

VMworld 2021 announced three exciting changes. First, Project Capitola, a software-defined memory solution in the cloud. Second, Project Monterey, a revisit of virtualization infrastructure as a distributed control fabric via tight integration with SmartNIC to offload networking to the hardware level, plus a zero-trust security model. Third, future deprecation of SD Card/USB device boot options.

Read the article by Alex Samoylenko, a virtualization pro, on said notable VMware vSphere introductions, their benefits, reasoning, and future plans.

Algenol Biotech, an American biotechnology company, needed to ensure the safety of its biotechnology data but had no reliable backup storage solution. Although the company used another vendor's VTL for a different Hyper-V-governed backup solution, the price it demanded and the functionality it provided were unsatisfactory. Algenol Biotech sought a VTL for the production part of the enterprise. Using StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL), the company achieves critical data safety and integrity by automating and securing offsite backup and archival.

Find out how Algenol Biotech determines the reliability of the backup process thanks to StarWind VTL.

Amidst the current pandemic, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) has seen a 41% year-over-year growth in 2021. Businesses turn to management outsourcing coming from hybrid cloud and HCI providers due to increased cost-effectiveness, absence of IT services, lack of talent, and security reasons. In the HCI market, ISG distinguished StarWind as a promising rising star with valuable services for outsourcing.

Click on the link to learn why businesses are quickly shifting to outsourcing cloud and HCI management and how vendors like StarWind help make the switch smoothly and efficiently.