MultiNet Interactive AB ensures continuous availability of customer-facing applications by enabling shared storage with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), MultiNet Interactive AB ran its IT infrastructure on separate physical servers using Hyper-V. Each host had its own local storage, with no replication or shared storage between virtual machines (VMs). This design created a single point of failure for every VM. If one host failed, the workloads on that server stopped. There was no practical way to provide high availability (HA) or workload failover. Solving this without additional software would have required complex storage hardware or a full infrastructure redesign, which was costly and difficult to manage.

The company needed a simple and reliable way to protect VMs and improve availability without replacing its Hyper-V environment.

With StarWind VSAN, we could run virtual machines on two separate machines to split the load but use the “same” storage.

Chris Åkerfeldt Wendel, IT Infrastructure Manager, DBA, CISO, IT-DevOps

SOLUTION

After evaluating multiple options, MultiNet Interactive AB selected StarWind VSAN to add HA to its existing Hyper-V setup. StarWind VSAN created shared, replicated storage between two physical servers while using local disks. This allowed both hosts to access the same data in real time. VMs could now run on either server, and the workload was evenly split. If one node became unavailable, the VMs remained accessible from the second node.

The solution was easy to deploy and fit well into the existing infrastructure. The environment now operates reliably and meets availability requirements.