CIPTI, a Moldavian transportation company, had a non-highly available (HA) IT environment that bogged down its business processes. The company was looking for a cost-efficient shared storage solution suitable for Hyper-V, and they found StarWind. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), CIPTI creates a 2-node Hyper-V failover cluster and accelerates the processing of its shipping services.

Find out how CIPTI levels up its IT infrastructure performance thanks to StarWind vSAN.

Red Road Networks LLC, an American IT Managed Service Provider (MSP), needed to ensure the 24/7 business operations of its client company. However, the company had a non-clustered IT environment that was subject to both planned and unplanned outages, provoking high downtime. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Red Road Networks LLC builds a clustered and redundant IT environment for its client company and saves over $10000 on its IT operational expenses.

Find out how Red Road Networks LLC ensures its round-the-clock service operations thanks to StarWind vSAN.

VMware further integrates its services with various cloud providers. This time, VMware Cloud Console received an update with regards to Google. Notably, you can now use it to access Google Cloud VMware Engine, which is a service managed by Google that enables running the VMware platform directly in Google Cloud once connected.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on the integration of VMware into Google Cloud and the steps needed to connect the services.

Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SSH), a Slovenian financial institution, had a non-clustered environment that threatened its business continuity. With a missing stretched cluster, protecting physical machines from any hardware and software failures, achieving high availability (HA) was not possible. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Slovenian Sovereign Holding creates an HA cluster, prevents the risk of IT infrastructure disruptions, and ensures 24/7 business operations.
Find out how SSH meets its business contingency plan and keeps its mission-critical applications highly available thanks to StarWind vSAN.

Azure DevOps is a rich system that allows you to automate a great number of things from Apps to Azure Resources and many others via Azure Pipelines. Many of such workloads require approval. However, the GPU VM, to operate all this, will entail additional costs. To avoid that, you can use your own script to create an easy approval pipeline for your users.

Read the guide by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to create a simple approval workload using Pipelines in Azure DevOps.

Rodillian Multi Academy Trust, a British education institution, had a problem of high IT operational costs because of existing out-of-warranty and out-of-support server estate. The IT infrastructure was not suitable for running the organization's central services and primary site. Using StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Rodillian Multi Academy Trust enables its domain centralization and scalability and cuts IT operational expenses significantly.

Find out how Rodillian Multi Academy Trust resolves its out-of-warranty server issue and ensure resilience and high performance of its IT infrastructure thanks to StarWind HCA.

Cross vCenter Server vMotion has been greatly enhanced in vSphere 7.0 Updates U3c. For one, it’s now been integrated into the vSphere web client, which makes it much easier to access and operate. But, among its new updates, one stands out the most: the ability to execute a clone bulk operation between vCenter servers with different SSO domains.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on the updates vCenter Server vMotion received in vSphere 7.0 U3c and how to execute a cross-server migration between diverse SSO domains.

IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH, a German engineering company, faced problems with low speed and limited IT infrastructure performance. So, the company was looking for a cost-efficient virtual SAN solution suitable for Hyper-V to create a highly available (HA) shared storage cluster and use it as a central data store. Deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH unites its servers in one 2-node HA cluster and achieves its business operations 24/7.

Find out how IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH speeds up the overall IT infrastructure performance with StarWind vSAN.

Managing user access to resources during their working lifecycle can be quite a hassle. Luckily, with Access Package, you handle the onboarding, cross-boarding, or offboarding of a user with ease. Just create a self-service catalog of resources to which a user can request access themselves, — all that’s left for you is approval.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Microsoft MVP, on the features of Access Package and how to use it to manage access to Azure Active Directory resources more simply.

VMware GuestStore enables you to distribute virtual machine (VM) agents, configuration files, VMware Tools upgrades, and custom content from a single shared repository. This way, you can ensure that the content within your vSphere environment is always consistent and correctly distributed, also thanks to the GlobalConf feature.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on VMware GuestStore and how to use it along with GlobalConf to manage content distribution across your vSphere.

PF Software Inc., a Canadian cloud services provider, needed to ensure the constant business operations of its client company. However, a bulky physical server IT infrastructure with a lack of high availability (HA) didn't stand for that. By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), PF Software Inc. receives an elegant and cost-effective means to implement a hyperconverged IT infrastructure and achieve HA.

Find out how PF Software Inc. provides 24/7 business operations for its client company thanks to StarWind vSAN.

Microsoft has been making its cloud services ever more diverse and specific. This time, the software goes even deeper, allowing you to enable a geographically disparate and niche workforce to perform better with limited hardware, bandwidth and resources. Various specific tools for modern developers’ needs are presented in this new solution.

Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, on Microsoft Dev Box, new features, and the benefits it brings to enhancing a diverse and specific dev workforce.

Schneider Packaging Equipment, a U.S.-based packaging machinery manufacturer, had physical Dell servers that raised issues with high maintenance costs. The company wanted to implement storage virtualization instead of purchasing a physical SAN. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Schneider Packaging Equipment builds a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), reduces the number of nodes from 6 to 2, and, as a result, cuts its IT total cost of ownership (TCO) by 75%.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this.

StarWind is well-versed in supporting IT channel partners, as well as the telecommunications and audiovisuals industry. Our solutions easily support their services and goods by enabling them with forward-thinking and high-performance yet compact and cost-effective hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.

Register in the link to attend IT Partners in person or online and learn how to make your organization's IT resilient and future-ready from StarWind Engineers themselves.

VMware Skyline Advisor Pro is a new platform for collecting broad data and revealing contextual insights into your vSphere environment. The online service allows collecting data from your entire IT infrastructure, peer into how different product interactions behave, capture patterns, trends, events, and configs, and then design compliance around that.

Read the new article by Vladan Seget, a virtualization expert, on the benefits VMware Skyline Advisor Pro can provide to your IT environment data analytics and compliance.

Simplify Technology, a U.S. managed IT services provider (MSP), required a hyperconverged (HCI) solution for its client company to ensure constant business operations. The client originally had an IT infrastructure built around a physical SAN and isolated standalone hosts provoking a single point of failure (SPOF) issue. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), the client company of Simplify Technology creates a high availability (HA) cluster and keeps its business operations 24/7, even in extreme conditions of a lightning strike hitting its operation building.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

Dijkstra Vereenigde, a Dutch distributor of glass packaging and laboratory equipment, spent an arm and a leg whenever serving its end-of-life physical hardware and technology. The company needed a shared storage solution to make the HCI creation possible. Using StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN), Dijkstra Vereenigde cuts its operating expenses (OpEX) and builds a high-capacity hyperconverged infrastructure.

You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

Upgrading is necessary for smooth virtualization workload, as well as it is to compliance. However scrupulous and automated things may be, it can still happen that certain Azure disks in your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) can be full, so the upgrade won’t be possible without some tweaking. Luckily, there’s a way to deal with that.

Read the guide by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, on how to upgrade an Azure data disk that’s used in your Azure Kubernetes Service.

This StarWind webinar will focus on how ZFS solutions on the market bring data integrity to archival and media storage. You will learn how traditional filesystems fail when it comes to protection against silent data corruption and which ZFS best practices help address that. The material will cover the ZFS practical experience of making sure data is safe and readable even in worst-case scenarios.

Register now for the upcoming webinar to learn how you can leverage ZFS to deliver archival and media storage solutions with robust data integrity.

Microsoft is continuously updating its cloud services, further evolving with the mission-critical IT infrastructure needs. Recently, a swath of updates were introduced in Windows Admin Center 2110.2 and Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). All of them aim at IT environment operation smoothness and cross-platform compatibility.
Read the article by Brandon Lee, a virtualization expert, that reviews the new capabilities, features, and functionality in Windows Admin Center and Azure Stack HCI.