GHG Corporation halves the cost of its IT operations and ensures redundancy by building a hyperconverged IT infrastructure around StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA)

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), GHG Corporation relied on a Dell EqualLogic SAN running VMware ESXi. This infrastructure presented an “inverted pyramid of doom,” where two or three hosts were connected through two switches into a single Dell EQ SAN, resulting in a single point of failure (SPOF) and no redundancy. This lack of failover capacity made the IT setup highly vulnerable and placed the company at risk of significant downtime. Adding redundancy by purchasing additional SAN units was too costly.

The company needed a solution that would provide high availability (HA), redundancy, and scalability without breaking the bank.

StarWind HCI Appliance works well and satisfies all the requirements. Helps me sleep better at night and, at the same time, StarWind Support is top-notch.

Company Representative

SOLUTION

GHG Corporation selected StarWind HCI Appliance because it allowed to achieve redundancy and eliminate the previous setup‘s SPOF. StarWind HCI Appliance consolidated CPU, networking, and storage into an efficient two-host solution, delivering HA and high performance. The new setup allowed GHG Corporation to perform upgrades on individual hosts while keeping other VMs and hosts operational.

StarWind HCI Appliance delivered redundancy at half the cost of implementing two Dell EqualLogic SANs, two switches, and additional hosts, significantly improving efficiency and reducing total costs.