DAZN Group enables continuous service availability for live sports broadcasts by deploying a failover cluster with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the IT infrastructure of DAZN Group relied on a single non-redundant host running VMware. This architecture created a single point of failure. Any hardware issue or planned maintenance could lead to service interruption.

The company needed storage redundancy to build a highly available (HA) cluster, but implementing VMware vSAN required licensing costs that were considered too high. As a result, the organization required a reliable and flexible alternative that could deliver shared storage and HA without increasing infrastructure costs significantly.

Our VMware vSphere cluster provided by StarWind VSAN has been working like a charm since day 1 and has prevented downtime during node maintenance and failover.

Pierre Lebrun, DevOps Engineer

SOLUTION

DAZN Group selected StarWind VSAN as a robust and customizable alternative to VMware vSAN. The solution created a software-defined storage layer that abstracts local storage across multiple nodes and presents it as highly available shared storage for the VMware vSphere cluster. This eliminated the single point of failure and enabled seamless failover between hosts.

Since deployment, the infrastructure has operated reliably and supports node maintenance without downtime. The company achieved a stable and HA environment while saving approximately €30,000 in licensing costs.