UAB Rusnava improves application uptime and reduces infrastructure costs by 60% by creating a highly available IT environment around StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), UAB Rusnava operated a traditional IT infrastructure based on standalone physical servers with direct-attached storage (DAS). This setup made scalability difficult, lacked fault tolerance, and couldn’t support high availability (HA) without costly investments in SAN hardware. With no shared storage, the infrastructure was highly vulnerable to hardware failures and downtime.

The team considered SANs, but their high cost and complexity made them unsuitable. Software-defined storage emerged as the only viable option, and UAB Rusnava needed a solution that was affordable, simple to manage, and effective in enabling HA for its Microsoft Hyper-V environment.

The StarWind solution performs reliably, meets all our availability and performance requirements, and has simplified our infrastructure management. We highly recommend StarWind to  any SMB or enterprise looking to simplify HA and reduce infrastructure costs. 

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SOLUTION

UAB Rusnava selected StarWind VSAN after evaluat– ing other options like VMware vSAN. StarWind’s minimal hardware requirements, affordable pricing, and strong support model stood out. By mirroring local storage between two Hyper-V hosts, StarWind created an HA shared storage environment without the need for additional SAN hardware or even a witness node. The deployment eliminated single points of failure, significantly improved uptime, and allowed the company to reuse its existing hardware.

UAB Rusnava now enjoys a streamlined, resilient virtual infrastructure that meets all performance and availability requirements, while saving around 60% on hardware and licensing costs in the first year alone.