Case Study: Evanston Township High School achieves set-and-forget nightly VM backups and fast restores with ExaGrid

School District Spends Minimal Time Managing Backups Due to ExaGrid-Veeam Integration

Evanston Township High School (ETHS) District 202 is a single-campus high school in Evanston, IL serving roughly 3,500 students and 500 staff. The IT team supports an on-prem VMware environment of 85 VMs and needed a reliable, low‑maintenance backup and disaster‑recovery solution that would fit a controlled nightly backup window and allow fast restores when needed.

ETHS deployed ExaGrid integrated with Veeam—using ExaGrid’s landing zone, adaptive deduplication, and offsite replication—to run staggered nightly backups across a 12‑hour window and enable instant VM/file recoveries. The result is automated, “set‑and‑forget” backup operations with minimal admin time, consistent backup windows as data grows, quick restores, automated reporting, and tested offsite disaster‑recovery protection supported by a dedicated ExaGrid engineer.

Evanston Township High School

Vincent Stewart

Systems Administrator