Case Study: The Reynolds Company achieves 24x7 uptime and vendor-agnostic high availability with StarWind Software's Virtual SAN

High availability, data safety, and no vendor dependency are there with StarWind Virtual SAN

The Reynolds Company, a long-established manufacturer of water-based, dry-blend and hot-melt adhesives and coatings founded in 1978, faced a critical reliability issue when its VMware ESXi environment running on two NAS servers experienced a split‑brain. Vendor support could not determine the cause, so the company sought a more dependable, vendor‑agnostic way to guarantee data safety and continuous production uptime.

Reynolds deployed StarWind Virtual SAN on its existing off‑the‑shelf hardware to create an active‑active highly available cluster. The solution removed vendor lock‑in, lowered costs, and provided synchronous replication so VMs remain online during host maintenance or failure—delivering the 24x7 uptime the company required.

The Reynolds Company

Jeremy Moffitt

Network Administrator