Case Study: Jan-Pro Calgary achieves a highly available (HA) data center and $20,000 cost savings with StarWind Software (StarWind VSAN)

Jan-Pro Calgary ensures business continuity by building a highly available (HA) data center around StarWind VSAN

Jan-Pro Calgary, a Canadian commercial cleaning services firm, built its own data center to support multiple offices across Western Canada but faced a major challenge: as an SMB with a shoestring budget and older servers, it could not implement shared storage redundancy with built-in Microsoft tools for its 2-node Hyper-V failover cluster.

The company deployed StarWind Virtual SAN to provide cost-effective, redundant shared storage and full HA for both hosts and storage, avoiding the need for double hardware purchases and saving about $20,000. The solution delivered uninterrupted production during a RAID failure—servers were rebuilt and replicated without downtime—and Jan-Pro plans to expand its disk system while continuing to use StarWind.

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Dean Mueller

IT Admin