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Standard file shares (SMB/NFS) can’t keep up with heavy-duty workloads. Block storage gives your clients the high-speed, direct-attached feel they need with the massive scale of a NAS Join our live webinar: iSCSI on UGREEN NAS: Setting Up Block Storage for Windows & Servers What you’ll learn: • iSCSI vs. File Sharing: Why block storage is built for VMs, databases, and local expansion • UGREEN SAN Manager: Step-by-step setup of iSCSI Targets & LUNs on UGOS Pro • Windows Integration: Connecting and formatting storage via Windows iSCSI Initiator • Built for 24×7 NAS Workloads: Pair UGREEN NAS with Seagate Technology IronWolf® Pro HDDs for reliable, scalable storage Ideal for MSPs, SysAdmins, and IT Consultants looking to deploy advanced, enterprise-grade storage solution sets. Save your spot: https://lnkd.in/ekSJpVGB #UGREEN #UGREENNAS #Seagate #IronWolfPro #iSCSI #BlockStorage #MSP #SysAdmin #ITInfrastructure

What actually happens when a Proxmox node suddenly goes down? 👇 High Availability is not just about having multiple servers. A resilient Proxmox environment needs the entire architecture to work together: ✅ 3+ nodes for reliable quorum ✅ Corosync for cluster communication and failure detection ✅ Redundant network paths and switches ✅ Shared storage such as Ceph, SAN or NFS ✅ HA Manager for automatic workload recovery ✅ Separate management, storage and migration networks When a node fails, the cluster detects the failure, maintains quorum, selects an available node, and restarts the HA-managed VM or container on a healthy host. For planned maintenance, workloads can instead be live-migrated between nodes with little or no service interruption. That distinction is important: Live Migration → planned movement of a running workload HA Failover → automatic recovery after an unexpected host failure A good HA design is therefore not simply: “I have three Proxmox servers.” It is about eliminating single points of failure across: Compute → Network → Storage → Power → Cluster Communication I created the architecture below to show how these components can fit together in a production-oriented Proxmox HA environment. 💡 Question for the infrastructure community: Which storage architecture do you prefer for Proxmox HA — Ceph, Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI, or NFS? I’d be interested to hear what you are running in production and why. #Proxmox #HighAvailability #Virtualization #Linux #CloudComputing #Infrastructure #SysAdmin #DataCenter

Vertical Scaling (Scale Up): Increases the hardware power (CPU, RAM, storage) of a single server, making it simple to set up but limited by physical hardware limits and vulnerable to a single point of failure. Horizontal Scaling (Scale Out): Adds more servers to distribute user traffic across multiple machines via a load balancer, providing near-unlimited growth and fault tolerance at the cost of higher system complexity.

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Looking for high-performance dedicated servers in the Netherlands for demanding business workloads? INTROSERV provides flexible dedicated server solutions with both pre-configured and fully customizable options, making it easier to deploy infrastructure for virtualization, high-traffic applications, data-intensive projects, GPU workloads, and other complex environments. Key advantages include INSTANT server delivery within 2 hours, local networking up to 50 Gbps, up to 40 Gbps uplink per server, unmetered bandwidth options, Anti-DDoS protection, hardware and software RAID, a wide choice of operating systems, GPU configurations, server upgrades, and 24/7 enterprise support. Build reliable infrastructure in the Netherlands with the performance, flexibility, and connectivity your project requires. #DedicatedServers #Netherlands #BareMetal #ServerHosting #ITInfrastructure #GPUservers #HighPerformanceComputing #DataCenter #Virtualization #DDoSProtection #INTROSERV

Installing 100TB of storage into a single server. Seagate Technology Exos enterprise drives and SSDs, sliding into the hot swap bays. Enterprise drives like these are made to run nonstop, which is exactly what a build holding this much data needs. #tech #harddrives #storage #server #pchardware

Want to learn about shared parallel filesystems vs. local storage? Why small files crash metadata servers, and how to optimize your job's I/O performance. Read all about it here: https://lnkd.in/gmTCtM3b

Better Website Performance Starts at the Server Level Your Website May Be Optimized. Your Server May Not Be. You can optimize your code, compress images, enable caching, and improve your database but if the underlying server infrastructure is slow, your website may still struggle to deliver a fast experience. Server performance depends on much more than CPU speed. NVMe storage, RAM, CPU resources, network connectivity, server location, virtualization technology, and proper configuration all play an important role. A high-performance server can help reduce response times, handle more concurrent users, improve application performance, and provide a more consistent experience as your traffic grows. Website optimization and server optimization should work together. Because a fast website doesn't start with optimization alone. It starts with the right infrastructure. #ServerPerformance #WebHosting #VPS #DedicatedServers #NVMe #CloudServers #LinuxServers #WebsiteSpeed #Infrastructure #WebPerformance #Hosting

Distributed systems are one of those topics that look simple until you build one. You have multiple services, databases, servers, and networks working together. Then things start failing independently. A server goes down. A network request times out. Data gets out of sync. One service becomes slower than the rest. Building a distributed system isn't just about scaling horizontally. It's about designing for failure, consistency, communication, and recovery. The more systems I work with, the more I realize: Good distributed systems aren't designed around the assumption that everything will work. They're designed around what happens when it doesn't. #DistributedSystems #SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #ScalableSystems #BackendEngineering

Every hypervisor in your rack already speaks iSCSI. Most of them have never once been asked to. No special cards. No new switches. No licensing conversation. The capability is sitting in gear you already own, already paid for, already racked — and it goes unclaimed because "block storage over Ethernet" has never once looked good on a slide. Three things I wish more people understood: It's faster than its reputation. Put it on 10/25/100GbE with jumbo frames and it stops being "good enough." Add multipath and you're not just doubling bandwidth — you're killing the queue contention that was masquerading as latency. The bottleneck was never iSCSI. It's people plugging it into whatever switch was free and blaming the protocol for the result. It is not a file server. That's the entire point. A file server speaks files — SMB shares, NFS mounts, permissions, versioning, ten people in the same folder. That's a negotiation. iSCSI speaks blocks. It hands the OS a raw disk and gets out of the way. You don't share a LUN the way you share a folder, and the moment you try, you'll learn why. Run them side by side and they're the best of friends. The file server feeds the humans: documents, media, shares, backups. iSCSI feeds the machines: VM datastores, databases, anything that wants a raw disk and zero overhead between it and the platter. One serves people. One serves workloads. Same rack, same network, entirely different jobs. Underused. Underestimated. And the best running mate your file server will ever have. What's the most underrated protocol in your stack? #iSCSI #Storage #SAN #Networking #SysAdmin #Homelab #Infrastructure