Case Study: San Dieguito Union High School District achieves seamless datacenter migration and $18,000 annual VM backup savings with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Enables Seamless Datacenter Migration for a Leading California School District, Saves $18,000 Annually on VM Backup

San Dieguito Union High School District (SDUHSD), a large California district supporting four high schools, five middle schools and roughly 160 VMware VMs across 20 ESXi hosts and 13 sites, needed reliable protection for critical systems (AD, SQL, SIS, student records) and a way to migrate to a new datacenter. Their legacy backup was unreliable—frequent failed jobs, orphaned snapshots, multi-day outages and about 8 hours/week of administrative effort—so the district required fast, dependable VM backup and replication with minimal downtime.

SDUHSD deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication (preconfigured virtual appliance) in under an hour. Backups that once took a day now complete in hours, Backup Copy provides simple offsite retention, and VM replication enabled a datacenter move with only minutes of downtime. The district cut backup administration by about 32 hours per month, reduced overtime, and saves approximately $18,000 annually compared with the previous solution.

San Dieguito Union High School District

Matthew Colwell

Network Technician