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 […]
VCP and VCAP during VMworld 2019 are 50% OFF
As VMware usually does, it is not different this year. If you’re planning to pass your certs and you plan to attend VMworld, it may be a good idea to do both. VMware offers up to 50% discounts for exams passed during VMworld. I’ve taken the advantage of passing one of my exams too in […]
vSphere 6.5 Update 3 released
While waiting for vSphere 6.7 Update 3 (currently in Beta), VMware released recently the third update for vSphere 6.5. The vSphere 6.5 Update 3 is a maintenance release only which does not bring any new functionality, but rather adds some new drivers and fixes few bugs. Few minor enhancements to point out, for example for […]
Homelab for cheap with new AMD CPUs?
Homelabs were always great for learning IT and virtualization. Back in a day, you had to chose the right Motherboard, CPU, memory, and storage, and put it all together, to hope to have almost production “beast” at home. Nowadays, with cloud, we see fewer folks building homelabs because the cloud allows you to build a […]
Free VMware Performance Measure tool for HCI Systems
I’ve spotted a new Free VMware Performance measure tool for HCI systems called HCIBench. It is distributed as a “Fling” via VMware Labs site. Before downloading you must agree to the Tech Preview agreement, then the tool is available as a virtual appliance (OVF file). You should not use this tool in production, but rather […]
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