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My Home Lab Converged Infrastructure Challenge
As I had some challenges with my Home Lab due to some hardware failure, I had to revert from using a dedicated storage box (White box + Windows + bunch of disk + StarWind Virtual SAN) as I no longer have the luxury of having that extra machine to use. I have ended up with…
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Time to upgrade to StarWind Virtual SAN V8
While I was upgrading my Home lab to the latest vCloud Suite with all the new nice goodies that VMware has just released like vCAC 6.1, vSphere 5.5U2, vCenter 5.5U2, ESXi 5.5U2, vCenter Orchestrator 5.5U2 and so on. I was really excited about these new arrivals and rushing to do the upgrade, but I had…
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What’s New in StarWind SAN V8
StarWind SAN V8 RC has just been released with a lot of new features. Below is a summary of what to look for in this release: Log-structured File System: • VAAI UNMAP command implemented. • Internal structures changed to ensure compatibility with upcoming updates. • Improvements made for operations with VSS providers. Flash cache: •…
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Free StarWind iSCSI SAN Training/Webinar
StarWind has asked me if I can share this info about their upcoming free Free StarWind iSCSI SAN Training/Webinar titled “Your Way to Complete Storage Redundancy!”. I thought as many of you will be looking at creating your own virtual storage for home lab or even at work you might want to look at their…