Introduction Correctly configuring your Hyper-V storage is extremely important and can help or hinder performance, stability, and other factors in your Hyper-V virtualized environment. In addition, there is a particular type of storage that you want to be familiar with when running Hyper-V virtual machines. [...]
Cybersecurity and IoT company Claroty discovered a vulnerability in WD (Western Digital) and Synology network-attached storage, known as NAS. The vulnerability was exposed at the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022, Zero Day Initiative event. If it had fallen into the hands of malicious individuals, the vulnerability could [...]
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Multi-Attach allows an EBS volume to be attached to multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances at the same time. This feature allows you to build highly available and scalable applications by sharing storage across multiple instances. This feature is [...]
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have played a key role in helping today's businesses take advantage of all that modern technology offers. Over the past decade, MSPs have transitioned from simply providing basic IT support, as was the case early on. MSP industry trends show the [...]
Becoming familiar with containers and containerized infrastructure will most certainly put you in close contact with Docker and Docker containers. You can run Docker containers on your Windows Server with Hyper-V installed and provide a way to run your containerized workloads effectively. This post will [...]
Microsoft Azure AD Connect is a tool that organizations can use to synchronize their on-premises Active Directory with Microsoft Azure (now Entra ID). The Azure AD Connect tool provides a straightforward way to synchronize users and groups between AD DS and Microsoft Azure, which is [...]
When organizations design their virtualized infrastructure for high availability, more than one Hyper-V host is needed to ensure that the workloads can withstand hardware failures, maintenance operations, and other events. While a single Hyper-V host allows running multiple virtual machines, running a Hyper-V cluster is [...]
Introduction Load Balancers are servers that forward traffic to multiple downstream servers. It spreads load across multiple downstream instances. It helps to expose a single point of access to your application. It handles failures of the downstream instances by doing regular health checks. It provides [...]
Introduction Microsoft 365 or Office 365 products come with yearly subscriptions. On completion of each year, users need to extend the subscription for next year. Usually, Microsoft offers a subscription using providing a license key when you purchase the subscription through an authorized Microsoft distributor [...]
Introduction Amazon Aurora is a fully managed, high-performance relational database engine built for the cloud. It's designed to deliver the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases while being cost-effective and easy to manage. Aurora is part of Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) and is [...]
