Case Study: University of Oxford cuts storage expansion costs with StarWind Software's Virtual SAN

Department of Physics in the University of Oxford decreased the price of storage expansion with StarWind Virtual SAN

The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford needed to scale its vSphere-based HA storage but found expansion prohibitively expensive. Their Dell and Viglen SANs, tied to third‑party HA software and proprietary hardware, created vendor lock-in and high costs for additional compute and storage capacity.

They deployed StarWind Virtual SAN, a hardware‑agnostic, easy‑to-manage solution that leverages existing hardware and removes the need for vendor‑certified installation. This lowered the cost of storage expansion, simplified administration, and paved the way to extend StarWind to their Hyper‑V environment to replace CA Arcserve RHA and reduce resync time during host reboots.

University of Oxford

John Harris

Windows System Administrator