Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc. enhances IT service reliability by virtualizing its storage infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc. relied on a standalone storage setup under VMware. This configuration posed serious limitations: the lack of redundancy left critical workloads vulnerable to downtime, while performance bottlenecks frequently disrupted operations. As the business grew, the infrastructure’s inability to scale or provide high availability (HA) became an increasing concern. Traditional hardware-based SAN solutions were explored but ultimately dismissed due to their prohibitive cost and complexity. The company needed a reliable, cost-effective alternative that wouldn’t require a complete overhaul of its existing infrastructure or introduce complicated management tasks.

StarWind provided a simpler, more economical solution, enabling redundancy and high availability without requiring extensive hardware investments or complex management.

IT Manager

SOLUTION

Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc. chose StarWind VSAN because it allowed the company to transform its IT environment into a resilient, highperformance infrastructure without heavy hardware investments. By deploying StarWind’s software-defined storage, the company created a virtual SAN across its existing hardware, achieving full redundancy, seamless failover, and significantly improved performance. Storage is now synchronized across multiple nodes, ensuring continuous data availability and eliminating the risk of downtime. StarWind’s solution also simplified infrastructure management and scaled effortlessly to meet