Many of today’s infrastructures admins do not like to change their habits and continue to use traditional shared storage only. It they hear Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI), they’re scared. They’re not cutting edge on tech, just using “oldfashioned” shared storage where you hook your ESXi hosts via storage switches. This is particularly true in SMB and very […]
VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 Announced – What’s New?
VMware quietly announced VMware vSphere 6.7 U3. As usually, the bits are not available for download yet. When they will, I’ll let you know. The announcement has been done through VMware blog post here. We can see, that the product has integrated some new features which again, will make VMware administration more easy and more […]
What is VMware Test Drive?
VMware allows you to test products in different ways. The most common is to download a trial version of the software and install it in your lab or use the bits to create a nested environment in your lab using your desktop computer and VMware Workstation (or Player) software. However, there is also a new […]
What Is VMware Remote Console and its differences with Web-based console
I had this question the other day about What is VMware Remote Console. I thought a quick blog post would do. Yes, many users do use VMware Workstation which when installed on the same PC, replaces VMware Remote console (VRMC). However, you don’t have to use Workstation and continue to use VRMC if you like […]
StarWind Free NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows
StarWind just released new free product. It’s called NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows and it’s completely free. Not so long time ago we have written about NVMe Over Fabric (NVMe-oF) protocol in this post – What is NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)? and talked about the advantages of lower latency and higher throughput. Remember that this protocol is […]
StarWind Software Based Storage Solutions With failover and Performance-Optimized
Usually, software-based solutions avoid you to spend money on additional hardware which needs maintenance, cooling and storage space. This is no different with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) which be an example for virtualization environments running VMware, Microsoft or KVM. StarWind Software Based Storage provides failover capability and is also performance-optimized. In this post, we’ll talk […]
Windows Server 2019 Essentials vs Standard
The answer is simple. Where Windows Server 2019 Essentials is limited to 25 clients, the standard version is not and depends on a number of Client’s access licenses (CALs) which you buy. In this post we’ll show some basic differences between Windows Server 2019 Essentials vs Standard. The product was previously called “Windows Small Business […]
What Is VMware Platinum?
VMware vSphere Platinum is an edition of vSphere that delivers advanced security capabilities fully integrated into the hypervisor. You’ve read our post called VMware Tools 10.3.2 Released Fixing PSOD of 10.3.0 and including AppDefense where we’ve briefly talked about the AppDefense module included in VMware tools. VMware Platinum includes VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and VMware AppDefense. The […]
VMware vSphere 6.7 U2c released – a maintenance release
A new release for VMware today. In fact, the company has just released the latest update for VMware vSphere 6.7 U2c which is a security update. There are no new features in this release. As you imagine, this is the last patch release before the vSphere 6.7 U3, which is currently in private beta. Today’s […]
Hyperconvergence Performance Testing
StarWind has partnered with Intel, Mellanox, and Supermicro and have done a Hyperconvergence performance testing series with latest hardware from Intel, Mellanox and Supermicro. They used 12 HCI nodes, all-NVMe environment with RAM for compute, Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series for storage, and 2 Mellanox ConnectX-5 NICs for interconnect. StarWind tested their StarWind VSAN […]
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