In the previous part, the article focused on the design of HA SMTP relay solutions. It also outlined the steps you should take to correctly prepare for setting up. In this part, you will get the detailed step-by-step guide on how to actually set up the solution without any trouble. The process is cumbersome but manageable.
Read Part 2 of the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, where he explains how to set up the solution in minute detail.
This video covers the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and the benefits it offers for your infrastructure. Our Solutions Engineer will share his knowledge on ZFS, its features (inline data compression, inline block-level dedupe, end-to-end data integrity, CoW, and snapshots), RAID-Z, and when best to use ZFS.
Click on the link to watch this video and get practical insight and advice about ZFS and how its features can help simplify and optimize the way you handle your infrastructure.
Switching to managing your production infrastructure and providing remote client access from home is, currently, a burning corporate necessity due to the pandemic. The upcoming webinar will cover such topics as remote access methods, existing infrastructure, cloud migration, security, and solutions (VDI vs RDS).
Register now for the upcoming webinar and get the insight necessary for a sysadmin to swiftly adopt the correct informed decision and easily shift to remote client access.
Let’s be honest: mail isn’t going anywhere. Businesses use it for both mission-critical and secondary reasons. To get the most, mailing services should be automated, extended, and enhanced. Running a mail server and keeping the security may be hard. But if you use TLS with on-prem SMTP plus SMTP API of a provider, it won’t be as complex.
Read the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft MVP, about configuring an HA SMTP relay solution. Part 1 covers HA SMTP design and preparation for setting up.
Stevens & Co (Pty) Ltd, a distributor of Ryobi products in the African region, needed to ensure that its applications experience constant uptime. Because of limited funds, it could not afford buying expensive physical SANs or overkill offers from typical virtualization vendors. StarWind’s solution catered specifically to the company’s problems and had no hidden costs.
Find out how Stevens & Co was able to achieve high availability without buying any new hardware or experiencing other unnecessary costs.
We know how painful it is for people to let go of old habits and viewpoints, so we’ve prepared some light reading for you on the matter. It’s 12-year-old news that Flash is way more expensive than hard disks. Market research shows that $/Gb is virtually the same, but SSDs are x15 faster, have no access time and got 1% CPU overhead vs. HDDs.
See the details and figures for yourself in our new article that shows why spindle drives are a vestige of the past, and how Flash is infinitely better and cost-efficient.
Let’s stop pretending like Flash is significantly more expensive than hard drives, and HDDs are a better capacity option. After many analyses and calculations, we’ve decided to remodel our StarWind HCA line to be all-flash only. Now, you will get the perfect balance of vast capacity, stellar performance, and true cost-efficiency for a Hybrid price.
Check out our refreshed StarWind HCA All-Flash, and be sure to order a test drive and ask any questions you may have. Your sustainable and affordable HCI is already here!
With Azure Dedicated Host, you get the ability to isolate your compliance-related workload VMs, so that capacity isn’t shared to VMs catering to customers. You get a dedicated Hyper-V host that provides control over the mentioned workload separately, allowing to set the maintenance policies of the host. The service comes as a SaaS.
Read the article by Florent Appointare, a Microsoft Engineer, about Azure Dedicated Host to separate compliance and customer VMs without sacrificing the capacity.
Xpert Consultancy, a British managed IT service provider (MSP), had the Firestreamer software from Cristalink. The existing VTL did not allow getting rid of the expensive physical tape hardware platform completely and was incompatible with the latest version of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. StarWind eliminated costly tape backup processes and granted opportunities for Xpert Consultancy to reduce hardware costs significantly.
Find out how Xpert Consultancy solves compatibility issues, gets a professional 24/7 support system, and frees from the bulk of hardware.
Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is a sync tool usually used to synchronize Active Directory accounts with the Office 365 environment. If the need to migrate to a new server emerges, you have to follow specific steps in strict order to migrate your AAD Connect tool first to avoid any synchronization issues.
Read the guide by Paolo Valsecchi of nolabnoparty.com in order to abide by the outlined procedure to migrate your AAD Connect to a new server without any problems.