The Greenwich Board of Education saved $20,000 over a three-year period by creating a hyperconverged IT infrastructure around StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) deployment, the Greenwich Board of Education had a geographically diverse infrastructure with 16 different locations, working primarily with local servers virtualized on standalone Hyper-V hypervisors with Direct Attached Storage (DAS). The primary challenge was scheduling downtime for updates and maintenance that disrupted critical services and caused inconvenience for its users. Finding an inexpensive and simple clustering solution became a top priority to address this issue.

With StarWind we can perform maintenance on individual servers without service outages, we are very happy so far.

Eugene Korsak, Network Specialist

SOLUTION

StarWind VSAN allowed the Greenwich Board of Education to repurpose its existing servers, avoiding the need to purchase expensive hardware appliances. The StarWind software seamlessly integrated with Hyper-V, ensuring it could continue using its preferred virtualization platform. Moreover, StarWind VSAN is provided through an intuitive interface and exceptional support services. With StarWind VSAN, the Greenwich Board of Education achieves uninterrupted server maintenance, eliminates service downtimes, and enhances overall system availability, all while simplifying infrastructure management through a hyperconverged approach.