Today’s heterogeneous storage environment within an enterprise tend to be difficult to manage. Each storage array has different management and different tools. Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is a standard which was developed by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA), which has done this job to make this management easier. Today’s post will talk about What […]
StarWind Supports SMB3 – Did you Know?
StarWind is known for their StarWind Virtual SAN software. It’s a cost-effective solution for IT admins and organizations willing to deploy simple storage solution. Today we’ll talk about StarWind which is able to provide lower cost data services like caching, snapshots, QoS, or data optimization. Yes, in fact, StarWind Supports SMB3 – Did you know? StarWind itself […]
Microsoft Windows Admin Center is GA – Free Download
Microsoft surprisingly released Project Honolulu that we recently wrote about here and here, under a new name – Windows Admin Center. This sounds good, but not only sounds, we like this project so much that we decided to write and promote this product once more time. What is Windows Admin Center and why we like it […]
Microsoft Windows Server Management Challenges – Project Honolulu
It seems that Microsoft hasn’t said their last word concerning GUI management for Microsoft Server systems. In this post we will discuss the new Project Honolulu but get back to Nano Server which seems to be dying fast. In fact, after trying to develop Nano server for some time, a very lightweight server node, recent […]
Windows Server 2016 Performance Tuning Guide – [Free]
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If you’re using Windows Server 2016 or planning to, you might be interested in Windows Server 2016 Performance Tuning Guide, which explains what’s possible to optimize. The guide focuses on 3 different optimization types such as Hardware optimization, server roles or server sub-system optimization (tuning). This guide describes each setting and its potential effect to […]
How to Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update
As you know, recently Microsoft has started pushing Windows update also called Windows Anniversary Update. It is the 1703 version. This update has brought many new features which has been announced since long time ago. I particularly liked the security enhancements which came with Windows Defender pushing things further with improvements with an independent testing score […]
How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy
The problem with the auto lock feature is that it really slow down when working in a multi-server environment in a lab. This is especially true of lab environments. Servers in lab environments are usually used much more than usual production servers. So, in the long run, the automatic lock can be especially painful. In this post, […]
Top 5 Backup Software For Hyper-V
Welcome to ESX Virtualization blog. This post will try talk about backup products supporting Microsoft Hyper-V virtual infrastructures. Basically, we will list Top 5 Backup Software For Hyper-V whether they’re already supported or they’re will be in the upcoming release. This is the case for example with Nakivo 7 currently in beta but the release of […]
What is Storage Replica? – Windows Server 2016
Storage replica (SR) technology is a little bit different from DFS. As you know DFS uses only asynchronous replication and has usually high latency. DFS has been designed to work for low bandwidth networks as it minimizes a bandwidth usage. But has no real performance needed for fast replication. Also, open files are not replicated to […]
Upgrade Windows Server 2012R2 AD to Server 2016
OK, I know that this is not really a good idea, but I had questions on this and wanted to test. I wanted to test an upgrade Windows Server 2012R2 AD to Server 2016. In place migration. Yes, I know, it’s not really worth it as often when migrating, the system isn’t really “clean” with […]