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Tag: HCI

Ceph Storage Best Practices for Ultimate Performance in Proxmox VE
Storage

Ceph Storage Best Practices for Ultimate Performance in Proxmox VE

Ceph is a scalable storage solution that is free and open-source. It is a great storage solution when integrated within Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) clusters that provides reliable and scalable storage for virtual…

by Brandon LeeMarch 4, 2024August 31, 2024
HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage
vSAN

HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage

If you work with VMware vSAN and are looking for a benchmarking tool for your vSAN datastore, the HCIbench tool is the de facto standard for testing out your vSAN…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 9, 2023December 18, 2023
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Trends in 2022
Software Defined Storage

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Trends in 2022

Unquestionably, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is gaining tremendous momentum and adoption in the enterprise data center. In a recent study by the ISG (Information Services Group), in 2020, the HCI market…

by Brandon LeeMay 4, 2022May 4, 2022
Upgrading outdated hardware with StarWind HCA appliance
Software Defined Storage

Upgrading outdated hardware with StarWind HCA appliance

As many organizations are looking at upgrade and refresh cycles this year, storage solutions are one of the core considerations for any new deployment. Businesses have been increasingly shifting their…

by Brandon LeeMarch 15, 2022March 15, 2022
StarWind Virtual SAN Software HCI Performance Record
Software Defined Storage

StarWind Virtual SAN Software HCI Performance Record

The market is filled with many different HCI virtual SAN software solutions to choose from with many different vendors and flavors of HCI solutions with various software-defined storage technologies backing…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 28, 2020January 11, 2021
Azure Stack HCI Deployment with New Cluster Creation Extension
Azure

Azure Stack HCI Deployment with New Cluster Creation Extension

Microsoft is certainly serious about Windows Admin Center. With Windows Admin Center 1910, there have been many great new features introduced as part of the newest version of the WAC…

by Brandon LeeNovember 19, 2019January 11, 2021
Windows Admin Center 1910 GA Download with New Features
Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center 1910 GA Download with New Features

Windows Admin Center is the de facto standard now for managing Windows Servers, HCI, Hyper-V, and bridging your on-premises environment to your Azure environment. The hybrid cloud features that are…

by Brandon LeeNovember 4, 2019January 11, 2021
Increase VMware vSAN Space and Performance Add Disks to Disk Group
vSAN

Increase VMware vSAN Space and Performance Add Disks to Disk Group

Running VMware vSAN in the home lab environment rocks. It has allowed me to effectively have a great HCI solution running commodity hardware with the ability to scale storage as…

by Brandon LeeJune 18, 2019January 11, 2021
Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance
vSAN

Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance

VMware vSan is getting more and more powerful with each and every release. With the introduction of vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7, the HTML5 UI has received more functionality, Windows…

by Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2018January 11, 2021
VMware vSAN 6.6 Configuration and new features
vSAN

VMware vSAN 6.6 Configuration and new features

With the recent release of the vSphere 6.5d update, VMware vSAN 6.6 is added as part of the update.  VMware vSAN 6.6 includes many enhancements to the technology as each…

by Brandon LeeApril 21, 2017January 11, 2021
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