Case Study: Anchor Brewing achieves high-performance, cost-effective VDI storage with StarWind Software

Anchor Brewing Implements StarWind as a Storage Solution for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Anchor Brewing Company, a historic San Francisco craft brewery, faced a full IT refresh after new ownership exposed obsolete hardware and software and growing strain on a WAN link between San Francisco and a San Diego data center. With limited time and budget, the IT team needed a fast, reliable shared storage solution to support a VMware VDI rollout on-site and avoid costly WAN upgrades.

They chose StarWind Virtual SAN and installed it on a Dell server in under 20 minutes, using default settings to support about 40 virtual desktops. StarWind delivered high IOPS, faster VM boot times, continuous data protection with snapshots and CDP, and centralized management—resulting in smooth VDI performance, reduced expenses through dual-purpose hardware, and fast, point-in-time recovery for business-critical data.

Anchor Brewing

Daniel Covell

IT Consultant