Case Study: Chalk Mountain Services of Texas achieves a highly available, cost-efficient virtual server environment with StarWind Software (VSAN)

Chalk Mountain Services gets highly available virtual server environment with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Chalk Mountain Services, a US oil and gas transportation and logistics provider with locations across Texas and New Mexico, was running Microsoft Hyper-V without shared storage and lacked reliability. The company needed a cost-effective software-defined storage solution to enable a highly available (HA) virtual server environment, ensure VM live migration and protect data during outages while staying within a tight budget.

Chalk Mountain deployed StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) on commodity hardware and integrated it into their existing infrastructure, building a failover cluster that enabled live VM migration and maintained HA during outages without sacrificing performance. The solution met reliability goals at a fraction of the cost of traditional shared storage, and StarWind’s support helped get the environment up and running quickly.

Chalk Mountain Services of Texas

Zach M.

Systems Administrator