flexbit reduces infrastructure costs and shortens project delivery times by deploying a 2-node high-availability cluster with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), flexbit had no shared storage or hyperconverged platform in place. The company was building Microsoft Hyper-V based solutions for small customers, but every project required custom design and complex planning. There was no simple way to create reliable 2-node clusters without adding expensive SAN hardware. This limited flexbit’s ability to offer affordable high availability to small businesses.

Traditional solutions on the market were either too costly or too complex for this segment, and did not fit flexbit’s pricing model. As a result, the company needed a hyperconverged solution that could become a standard building block for many years and for many customer environments, while keeping deployment simple and predictable.

StarWind VSAN was our first solution to make small hyperconverged clusters for us and our customers for many years. Performance is perfect.

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SOLUTION

flexbit chose StarWind VSAN because it allowed the company to build small 2-node clusters with local disks and no external storage. The pricing model was fair and matched flexbit’s needs, which made the solution easy to offer to small customers. The resulting infrastructure delivers perfect performance and fully meets all technical requirements.

Deployments are now repeatable and fast, and flexbit can standardize its designs for multiple projects. StarWind support also became a key value, helping the team during planning and rollout. Today, flexbit continues to use StarWind VSAN as the core platform for small customer clusters and plans to rely on it for future projects.