Halls Construction ensures uninterrupted daily construction operations by deploying a hyperconverged IT infrastructure with StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA)

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Halls Construction ran its IT on aging Dell servers with Hyper-V and Failover Cluster Manager. The hardware and virtual servers came from older projects and past design choices. Many systems were tied to legacy setups, such as Windows Small Business Server (SBS), that consistently could not deliver full performance. Resources were overused, and reliability was a concern as SBS aged and new Windows Servers versions were needed.

Expanding or modernizing the environment was a very difficult and major change because past IT managers had poorly managed SBS and other servers. The team needed better uptime, simpler management, and a stable platform for business systems.

Our StarWind infrastructure was set up correctly, quickly, and professionally, and now we hardly need to manage any of it, except for updates and bragging to friends about it. Serious players need serious hardware and software, and we found both in StarWind!

Spencer Lines, IS/IT Manager

SOLUTION

Halls Construction deployed StarWind HCI Appliance using new servers with a fresh server OS and fully loaded, functional StarWind software, opted for a service support plan for the next seven years. The platform unified compute and storage and optimized resource use. High availability reduced risk and improved service continuity. Management became simpler, and daily maintenance dropped to basic updates. Performance increased, and systems ran faster and more reliably.

StarWind support played a key role, helping the team resolve issues over the years. The company now has a stable, modern infrastructure and plans to repeat the same StarWind-based design in the future for continued speed, fault tolerance, and reliability.