We all know what backup window really is, right? It’s an extremely short period of time that you are supposed to fit all your backup processes in somehow. Still, this challenge looks not that hard to accomplish as long as you are using that time wisely. That’s, actually, what Veeam Backup & Replication backup job chaining is intended for!

Find out how and why to chain Veeam Backup & Replication jobs in the full article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant.

Let’s be honest, any system administrator may face the need of hot-adding the network interfaces to the guest VMs in his Microsoft Hyper-V environment one day. And that’s no problem as Windows Server 2016 brought in a whole set of useful features, one of which is the ability to add and remove network adapters on the running VMs. Moreover, you can do that in two ways – GUI, if you’re looking for a straightforward process and PowerShell if you are a fan of automation.

Read the full article by Boris Yurchenko, a Technical Support Engineer at StarWind, to learn how to easily manage Hyper-V virtual NICs on the go.

For all that long time in storage virtualization, we’ve gained decent knowledge and experience which we are always happy to share with you. So, we decided to start a GoToStage channel to get all our webinar records in one place. Now, if you miss one, there’s a place where you still can find it! Learn more

Regular backups are necessary to cope with possible data loss and restore information from the earlier times when needed. Even though copying data to Amazon S3 from a remote server is already possible, additional software not fully supported by Amazon is required, which makes the backup process painful. In case you are tired with such an exhausting backup procedure, you have a great chance to explore how AWS CLI can be extremely helpful in the case.

Check out the full article by Gary Williams, an experienced virtualization, storage and Windows systems administrator, to learn more about the updated AWS CLI and the options it provides for the convenient backup.

StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a well-known, historically-proven, and performance leading Software-Defined Storage solution. It is now available in two very different scenarios – one (Linux virtual machine based packaging) is specifically aimed at VMware vSphere users, another one (application residing inside hypervisor kernel) is targeted at those who run Microsoft Hyper-V. Here comes better flexibility, less restrictions, and simplified licensing. Free edition still remains a “low hanging fruit” with all the commercial version features except UI (it’s CLI only) and without guaranteed support. Yes, production use is allowed.

Check out more details here

Before, Cantey Tech Consulting IT infrastructure comprised single-target SANs with VMware ESX hypervisor. The company required the performance and services availability beyond the ones its existing environment could provide. For that purpose, Cantey Tech Consulting required a decent software-defined storage. However, traditional solutions either exceeded the company’s budget or were tricky to deploy. Here, StarWind Virtual SAN came into play.

Learn from this success story how Cantey Tech Consulting achieved high availability of cloud services and boosted SAN performance with StarWind Virtual SAN

For many, Veeam Backup & Replication is the solution of choice for backing up and disaster recovery. Why? This powerful solution saves your data from ransomware or loss. Also, it enables to build a disaster recovery site to keep your production up and running no matter what happens to your main site.

Find out how to make a disaster recovery plan with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 in the full article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant.

All-cloud IT infrastructures can save you both the money and the hassle. Wait, what is that special about cloud-based environments? In the public cloud, you can run the IT infrastructure that perfectly fits your requirements and scale it easily as you go. Also, that won’t be that expensive and tedious as running an on-premises environment!

Find out more about how and why build all-cloud IT environment in our upcoming free webinar.

Thorburn Associates, an American company designing space layouts, lighting, and acoustic solutions, used to run its production on the aging physical shared storage. If any server went down, the production would go down as well. The company badly needed a new IT infrastructure, and the industry-proven shared storage provider to ensure its applications uptime.

Find out how Thorburn Associates built a fault tolerant environment with StarWind.

Less than just a week ago, Microsoft released Windows Server 2019 – the new server OS that many have been waiting so long. And, trying to make user experience even better, Microsoft released a new free utility allowing you to manage the entire production environment from a single web-based console – Windows Admin Center known before as “Project Honolulu”. After some polishing, it became a really cool tool to manage on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments that integrates with Azure Services. Give it a shot!

Read the recent article by Vladan Seget, an IT and Virtualization consultant, to learn how to use Windows Admin Center for Windows Server 2019.

StarWind takes the stage at Experts Live Europe 2018 as a gold sponsor! We will talk about the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and how SMB and ROBO can consolidate compute, storage, and networking, and simplify the management of VMs and applications taking into account IT-resource and budgets limitations. Experts Live Europe is the annual Microsoft community IT conference that attracts the best speakers and experts in the world to talk about new achievements in the Microsoft Cloud, Datacenter, and Workplace areas.

The conference will be held on October 24-26, 2018 in Prague. Get more details here.

Migration of virtual machines is an important feature of virtualization technology that allows applications to move transparently along with their runtime environments between physical machines. AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) allows the migration of one or multiple on-premises virtual machines to AWS in an easy way from a single pane of glass. Plan, automate, and track step-by-step replication of running server volumes with just one tool — the AWS console!

Read the article by Paolo Valsecchi, StarWind System Engineer, to find out how to use the AWS Server Migration Service appliance.

One of the most anticipated events in the computer world - Experts Live Europe 2018 - starts pretty soon! Being a gold sponsor for the event, StarWind will talk about building affordable enterprise-level Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for consolidating compute, storage, and networking, and simplifying the management of VMs and applications. Experts Live Europe is the annual Microsoft community IT conference that attracts the best speakers and experts in the world to talk about new achievements in the Microsoft Cloud, Datacenter, and Workplace areas. It will be held from October 24-26, 2018 in Prague. See you at the conference!

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Prime Advisors Inc. is a quickly growing American investment consulting company with over 30 years of experience. To keep up with customers’ needs, Prime required a shared storage solution for their virtualization environment, and this is where StarWind helped to build one using off-the-shelf commodity hardware and StarWind software. New shiny storage came with top-notch performance & w/out huge SAN price tag. Read the Success Story here.

Do you rely solely on your on-site backups? Unfortunately this isn’t an option as it does not guarantee your data is safe & available after a catastrophic or even temporary loss of service affecting your primary “one and only” data center. It is incumbent to provide you with a hybrid cloud backup for ensuring superior disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC), close-to-100% uptime and zero data loss! StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) enables users to back up their virtual machines with Veeam to both on-premises and / or cloud storage. Combination of Veeam, StarWind VTL, and Backblaze B2 cloud storage provides maximum security and rapid recovery when required. Save your time and money!

Read the article by Roderick Bauer, Content Director for Backblaze, to find out how to achieve economics, instant access, and faster recovery using Veeam, StarWind VTL, and Backblaze B2 cloud storage at the link.

Do you use VMware but don’t know how to guarantee the data safety, allow the virtual machines migration, enable continuous application availability, and eliminate any single point of failure within your IT environment? Consider taking advantage of the combination of VMware and Linux-based StarWind VSAN. VMware high availability (HA) ensures constant VMs operation, while StarWind is responsible for the storage fault tolerance.

Learn from the upcoming free webinar how to configure high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT) VMware environment.

ProPortion Foods, a U.S. company providing retail and food services, had issues with expensive aging HPE MSA SAN maintenance and product updating. StarWind has become a “ready-to-go” deployment to all the company’s issues required. Using HPE servers running StarWind software defined storage stack allowed the company to reduce its warranty costs up to 80% and simplify product updating.

Find out how ProPortion Foods achieved high availability at a reasonable price with StarWind.

VPN connections provide remote access to the necessary data and you can get information about your company's assets at any time. The connection to Azure virtual networks is possible by configuring two types of VPN, namely Site-To-Site (S2S) and Point-To-Site (P2S). S2S VPN allows you to connect two networks and constantly maintain communication between them. P2S VPN is effective for connecting to a virtual network from a remote location if you have a small number of clients for whom such an access is needed. You’re asking how to establish a secure connection of individual clients running Windows 10 to the Azure Virtual Network?

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, System Engineer, to find out how to create a VPN P2S tunnel between your laptop and your Azure Virtual Network hand over first at the link.

Schneider, a U.S. packaging machinery manufacturer had physical Dell servers that raised issues with heat level and maintenance costs. The company implements storage virtualization instead of purchasing a physical SAN. It chooses StarWind and consequently gets high performance and high availability with reduced IT TCO.

Find out how Schneider keeps IT costs low with virtualization stack provided by StarWind.

GCL Diesel, a Canadian diesel service and diesel part distribution company, had non-redundant Windows 2003 servers and needed to optimize its existing IT infrastructure to eliminate downtime. The company first considered physical SAN. However, it did not fit the strict budget constraints.

Learn from this success story how StarWind allowed the company to build a fault-tolerant system without breaking budgets.