HCI
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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 machines, containers, etc. In this post, we will look at…
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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 storage performance. It uses test VMs to generate load on…
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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 was around $7 billion. The expected revenue will grow substantially…
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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Upgrading outdated hardware with StarWind HCA appliance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 data centers to software-defined solutions that provide modern benefits for…
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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 those solutions.ย In a really interesting performance benchmark, industry hardware…
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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 tool. Part of what Microsoft is trying to achieve with…
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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 built into Windows Admin Center certainly makes it clear this…
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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 needed. I have been running off a pair of NVMe…
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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 Failover Clustering is now supported, and all new redeisinged adaptive…
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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. ย VMware vSAN 6.6 includes many enhancements to the technology as each iteration brings maturity to the technology. ย VMware’s vSAN is one…