Blocka Construction Inc. achieves zero-downtime business operations by deploying a hyperconverged IT infrastructure around StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA)

CHALLENGE

Before adopting StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Blocka Construction Inc. relied on a single bare-metal server that hosted all company workloads. There was no hypervisor, no virtualization layer, and no redundancy of any kind. Although files were being backed up, many system settings and configurations were not protected, which exposed the business to data loss and long recovery times. Even short outages caused serious disruption for employees.

The IT team operated with a very limited budget and did not have the capacity to design and deploy a failover cluster from scratch. The company needed an affordable way to modernize its infrastructure, reduce risk, and avoid complex hypervisor configuration, while still gaining enterprise-grade reliability.

With StarWind, our downtime has been reduced from a couple of hours a month to 0. The improved speed and performance have increased productivity and efficiency.

Gregory Gazeley, IT Manager

Blocka Construction Inc. chose StarWind HCI Appliance as a cost-effective, out-of-the-box platform that removed the need for deep hypervisor expertise. The solution provided a clean slate to deploy virtual machines with minimal setup and no hidden complexity. Today, the company runs five Windows Server virtual machines in a fully functional failover cluster. The hybrid configuration places operating systems and databases on SSD storage, while bulk file data is stored on HDDs, delivering both performance and capacity. Downtime has dropped from several hours per month to zero.

The infrastructure has been stable for three years, still has room to grow, and delivers strong performance. StarWind support has remained fast and effective, giving the IT team confidence in the platform.