Quick Bites: The blog post provides a comprehensive comparison between Microsoft's NTFS and ReFS file systems It discusses the key features, performance, reliability, and scalability of each file system. NTFS, a long-established file system, excels in performance and supports features like compression and encryption ReFS, [...]
Managing data effectively has never been more of an imperative for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). The one-two punch of increasing cybersecurity threats and regulatory pressures make this particularly pertinent, and with the proliferation of hybrid and remote work models, the importance of reliable data backup [...]
Introduction Proxmox VE offers a robust virtualization platform, but standalone hosts have a single point of failure. This is where High Availability (HA) comes in, ensuring your VMs stay online even when hardware issues happen. But to unlock the full power of HA, you need [...]
In the last VMware for Beginners blog, we discussed vSphere Proactive HA. In this final blog post about High Availability in vSphere, we will learn and discuss vSphere Fault Tolerance(FT). vSphere Fault Tolerance is a big subject and would need more than two blog posts [...]
Linux recently released Ubuntu 24.04, both Desktop and Server. They bring a lot of new features and enhancements but still require proper protection against failure. First, that includes a proper configuration and then a backup and recovery strategy. Regardless of where Ubuntu 24.04 is installed, [...]
Quick Bites: The blog explores the comparison between Microsoft's Azure Hypervisor and Hyper-V, focusing on their similarities, differences, and which might be the better choice for different organizational needs It discusses key factors such as cloud vs. on-premises deployment, features, management, cost, and scalability Ultimately, [...]
Cloud storage has many benefits. However, with cloud storage, organizations still need to consider data protection and recovering data that may get accidentally deleted, modified, or otherwise changed. Microsoft Azure storage has two features that help recover your data: snapshots and soft delete. You need [...]
We have discussed many aspects of running Docker containers on a Windows Server, including installing Docker. Running an Internet Information Server as a Docker container is a very suitable containerized workload, as many businesses run full virtual machines to host single IIS websites. In this [...]
When working with Azure Active Directory and looking at different password sync technologies, two generally come up in Azure AD Connect configurations: Password Hash Synchronization and Pass-Through Authentication. Since these affect how authentication happens with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), understanding their functions, differences, and [...]
Quick Bites: The blog discusses migrating on-premises VMware environments to Microsoft's Azure cloud using Azure Migrate It highlights the benefits and complexities of such migrations, emphasizing Azure Migrate's centralized platform for managing the migration process The article covers the types of workloads that can be [...]
