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VMware vSphere 7.0 – VM Template Check-in and Check-out and versioning

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VMware vSphere 7 has been announced and it brings an interesting feature for VM template management via Content Libraries. As you know, Content libraries introduced in vSphere 6.0 are continuously evolving with every release of vSphere, even not a major release. Content libraries, when first introduced, did not support many features as they do now […]

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) now All-Flash Only

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One of the problems that small customers are often facing is a lack of expertise. Look at for example at HyperConvergent infrastructure (HCI). Much different knowledge is necessary to put everything together including the right choice of hardware and components. While flexibility is important it is not always good for someone who does not have […]

StarWind V2V Converter Update

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StarWind just updated their popular free utility – V2V Converter. This took is able to convert different king of VM images from one hypervisor format to another. For example from Microsoft to VMware or the other way around. Other hypervisors such as Citrix XenServer or QEMU are also supported. StarWind V2V Converter allows to for example […]

iSER vs iSCSI has much better performance – StarWind

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The iSER extension has the lowest latency and lowest CPU utilization thus more performance. It basically extends the iSCSI protocol to include RDMA support. iSER stands for “iSCSI Extensions for RDMA”. It is an extension of the data transfer model of iSCSI, a storage networking standard for TCP/IP. It uses the iSCSI components while taking […]

Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet Security (CIS) analyzes your environment for any security risk according to CIS standards

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The latest release of Runecast Analyzer 4.1 has been released recently and brought an interesting feature that allows you to run automated CIS Benchmarks. One might ask what is CIS Benchmarks? Those are industry-standard checks which are making sure that your infrastructure is secured against known security vulnerabilities. Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet […]

Log-structured Write-Back Cache (LSWBC) by StarWind – How it Works?

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StarWind software is constantly working on improving its flagship product StarWind Virtual SAN. During the development cycle, they have experimented with LSFS, but finally preferred LSWBC which optimizes small random writes and is able to use RAM and an SSD pool to boost performance, and additionally eliminate completely the need for full-resync after a node […]

Free Physical and Virtual Machine (VM) converter utilities you have to keep

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VM (V2V) or Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion isn’t something new. Since virtualization has started there were tools that were used for one or the other. Today’s post will list three principal tools that are still updated (kind of) and developed to maintain the possibility of conversion tasks. Note that while many admins have already […]

FreeNAS 11.3 New Release

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Popular storage operating system (OS) that many administrators are using within their IT environment for storage, has released a new update. FreeNAS 11.3 has quite a few new improvements which are worth to look at. The OS uses FreeBSD distro and  ZFS as a file system allowing you to set up snapshots and replication to […]