A.L. Thompson’s cuts IT operational costs and increases sales by building a scalable and high-performing IT infrastructure around StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), A. L. Thompson’s had a VMware environment using local storage with ESXi. The company sought to expand its server capacity and improve its IT infrastructure scalability while avoiding the high costs of purchasing direct-attached storage (DAS). Additionally, they needed to optimize the performance of their virtualized workloads between ESXi hosts.

So, A. L. Thompson’s required shared storage to support high availability (HA), all without costly proprietary components.

StarWind’s price was in our budget and the product fit the business requirements.

Chaz Hill, DevOps Manager

SOLUTION

A.L Thompson’s selected StarWind VSAN because it offered a full-featured shared storage solution that could be implemented without the need for expensive DAS or replacing their existing hardware. StarWind VSAN eliminated the need for physical shared storage, operating entirely on its current hardware infrastructure.

With StarWind VSAN, A. L. Thompson’s achieved the required scalability and HA at minimal cost. The solution allowed the company to efficiently move virtual machines (VMs) and balance virtualized workloads between ESXi hosts, optimizing performance and resource utilization.