software defined storage
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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. In a really interesting performance benchmark, industry hardware…
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Storage
StarWind VSAN for vSphere Virtual Appliances
You may have been considering VMware vSAN for your ROBO or Edge environment, however, your budget constraints simply do not allow purchasing a supported configuration for use with a VMware vSAN solution. The reality is that if you don’t have…
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Storage
Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2
If you are like me, you are constantly labbing various storage solutions and connectivity from virtual hosts and the like in the home lab. Most likely, you don’t have a several thousand dollar SAN lying around to provision every time…
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vSAN
New vsantop vSAN Command-Line Troubleshooting Tool
Well, everyone is certainly pumped up after this year’s VMworld event with many great new announcements and features that are coming to VMware vSphere very soon. Just before VMworld however, VMware released vSphere 6.7 Update 3, including vSAN 6.7 Update…
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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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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Backups with Vembu BDR Suite
Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct represents the latest and greatest software-defined storage solution from Microsoft that can be used with Hyper-V for true software-defined storage backed virtual machines. We have covered the benefits found in Windows Server 2019 Storage…
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vRealize Suite
Configure VMware vSAN Monitoring with vRealize Operations 7.0
VMware vRealize Operations 7.0 is a great upgrade to the vRealize Operations solution from VMware. VMware has made tremendous improvements across the board to the product and has positioned it as a cloud aware and hybrid environment tool that is…
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Windows Server 2019
Configuring Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct S2D in VMware vSphere
Software defined storage today is one of the hottest and most desired technology solutions in the enterprise datacenter. Most organizations are looking very seriously at software defined storage solutions as opposed to refreshing SAN storage devices in the next refresh…
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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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Computers
StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN
If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor configurations. StarWind VSAN allows you to take internal storage whether…
