Queensland Tissue Products reduces the running costs for storage systems byadopting hyperconvergence with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Queensland Tissue Products ran on a single physical Dell server with Hyper-V. Maintaining a separate NAS system for the VM infrastructure added complexity, increased costs, and required additional effort for upkeep. The company wanted to minimize the number of physical servers while ensuring redundancy and reliability, but achieving this without a specialized solution was challenging. The existing setup lacked streamlined storage management and was not cost-efficient. To address these issues, the company needed a solution that could both consolidate resources and provide high availability (HA) without the need for a sprawling, maintenance-heavy hardware environment.

StarWind VSAN lets us keep the server number down, and no need to worry about redundancy. It’s saving the running cost for the storage server and redundancy.

IT Manager

SOLUTION

Queensland Tissue Products chose StarWind VSAN because it allowed the company to reduce the number of physical servers while eliminating the need for a separate NAS. StarWind VSAN delivered built-in redundancy, ensuring HA without additional hardware investments. The streamlined setup reduced running costs, simplified maintenance, and improved operational efficiency. The new environment met all performance and reliability requirements, and with plans to potentially expand nodes in the future, the company is confident in StarWind’s ability to scale alongside its business needs.