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Milchwerk Jäger GmbH saves $1.5–2 million annually on its IT costs by deploying a hyperconverged infrastructure around StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA)

September 25, 2025
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Igor Beck
IT and Infrastructure Administrator. Has over 11 years of experience, specializing in virtualization, VPN solutions, and hardware management.
IT and Infrastructure Administrator. Has over 11 years of experience, specializing in virtualization, VPN solutions, and hardware management.

CHALLENGE

Before implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) and later StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Milchwerk Jäger GmbH operated its IT infrastructure on standalone Windows Servers with Hyper-V, relying on Microsoft’s built-in replication for important VMs and using Synology SHA clusters for high availability (HA). However, performance degradation issues due to an unresolved iSCSI bug made the Synology storage unfit for handling more than four VMs.

The subsequent shift to IBM Storwize V3700 with SAS interfaces improved performance but posed limitations – it required both nodes to be physically close. These constraints made the infrastructure difficult to maintain in the long run.

StarWind showed us the best possible configuration and tweaked our existing system a lot. Every future system that we build or buy either runs with StarWind software or is part of their StarWind HCI Appliance lineup.

Igor Beck, IT and Infrastructure Administrator

SOLUTION

StarWind offered a game-changing solution with its VSAN and HCI Appliance. Milchwerk Jäger GmbH first tested StarWind VSAN using a personal 3- month trial license, later seamlessly transitioning to a full license without any downtime. StarWind’s team assisted with optimal configuration and finetuning.

The iSCSI performance bottlenecks were eliminated thanks to StarWind’s unique multipath configuration combining loopback and dedicated NICs. With everything operating over Ethernet, the nodes could finally be separated into different buildings. The resulting infrastructure met all operational requirements while drastically reducing yearly IT costs.

About the Company
Milchwerk Jäger GmbH is the oldest privately owned dairy in Germany, dating back to 1870. Since the late 1960s, the company has focused on producing primarily Italian cheese varieties for export, especially to Italy and later to Eastern Europe.
Region
EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)
Country
Germany
Industry
Manufacturing
Product
StarWind HCI Appliance
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