Perfection knows no limits and so does Windows Server. Microsoft is on a crusade of ever-perfecting it, and the new version has something to say, indeed. It seems like the company might be coming after virtualization vendors. Why? Well, some of the new features include storage migration, Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, and ReFS deduplication… Just saying…

Read the article by Vladan Seget, an IT and Virtualization Consultant, to learn about the Top 5 New Features in Windows Server 2019.

The Newtron Group, a US electrical and instrumentation contractor, had compute and storage separated scenario with 7 Gateway compute nodes, Hitachi SAN, and Hyper-V on top. Maintaining a large number of servers required considerable money. The company sought to reduce the number of servers and get active-active high availability (HA). Thanks to StarWind, the organization got cost-efficient and reliable shared storage, delivering seamless availability, and decreased the number of servers by 4 times.

Find out how the Newtron Group lowers maintenance costs thanks to StarWind.

Updates in business processes that require using new products may entail changes in the IT environment that are meant to bump into vendor licensing conflicts. It’s especially relevant for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program (CSP). Alternatively, the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) is more flexible to such changes. So, what do you do if you go from CSP to EA?

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, to check out his guide on how to easily migrate resource groups within Azure if you’re switching from one subscription to another.

Fitzstone Limited, a legal service provider in Trinidad and Tobago, had 2 aging, outgoing servers with VMware ESXi on top, hosting all the company’s virtual servers, and a SAN device. There was a situation when everything was based on a single point of failure (SPOF) and all the means of protection were built on this fragile foundation. The company was to look for a shared storage solution to create a failover cluster. StarWind helped Fitzstone Limited to move to hyperconvergence using existing hardware resources, create a failover cluster ensuring constant applications uptime, and avoid the risk of a single point of failure (SPOF).

Find out how Fitzstone Limited provided high data availability (HA) and redundancy for its server at a reasonable cost with StarWind.

Are you a System Administrator or IT Manager calmly kicked back in the back of your SMB’s seemingly calm IT-environment but with a nagging “what if?” in case disasters come knocking? Then it’s time to get a bit more knowledge about disaster recovery so that your cluster is impeccable always. vSphere and Hyper-V have a lot of features to help you with that. There’s also more than meets the eye when it comes to native DR and VM replication options and Azure Site Recovery in VMware and Microsoft environments.

Learn from this video how you can become the perfect sentinel of your SMB’s business continuity.

The National Archives of Estonia had a rigid IT-infrastructure built around Dell AX4-5 array interconnected via redundant FC switches and HBAs with VMware ESXi on top. The IT-environment was to become more manageable, Highly Available (HA) and optimized without getting upgraded. Thanks to StarWind, the agency was able to reinvent its existing infrastructure into a failover cluster with a flexible and cheap virtual SAN.

Find out how The National Archives of Estonia achieved HA and performance optimization with StarWind.

Even if you know all the backup ways and methods, you can always open a door to new knowledge. This time we’re talking about backing up Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), namely creating VM disk snapshots in order to back up a disk manually. But even in this process, you can get automation. How?

Read the article by Nicolas Prigent, a System Engineer, to find out how to automate the process of creating disk snapshots on Azure with PowerShell runbooks.

Seeing the full picture of how well your Azure is faring can be complicated. It can be quite problematic to consolidate its workloads visually into comprehensive documentation. Subsequently, the reports to customers on the cloud’s effectiveness can come out as too cumbersome. It can also be hard for your team and partners to assess its input into your business’ IT environment overall.

Read the article by Florent Appointaire, Microsoft Engineer, to learn how Cloudockit can help you generate thorough, user-friendly, and visually appealing content about your Azure’s workloads.

Farmers & Merchants Bank, a US financial institution, had an infrastructure with primary and DR sites. Each of the locations had 2 Hyper-V hosts running Microsoft Server 2019 and Dell EqualLogic SAN. The organization was looking for a shared storage solution to get fault tolerance and high availability of its financial data. Thanks to StarWind, Farmers & Merchants Bank received cost-efficient and reliable shared storage with no need to buy additional SAN hardware.

Find out how Farmers & Merchants Bank gets the high intensity of I/O operations saving $60,000 on hardware with StarWind.

Tracing your Azure’s health can be quite a challenge. Tons of daily entries delete, update, or create resources in the cloud, and some of these changes may result in a crash. For administrators, identifying which entry caused the error amidst the usual chaotic activity logs can be a problem, which may lead to severe downtime. Luckily, Log Analytics can help you solve such issues in no time.

Read the article by Romain Serre, a Senior Consultant, and learn how to centralize Azure activity logs and what benefits it ensues.