Case Study: Lees-McRae College achieves server consolidation, redundancy and $13K savings with StarWind Software

Lees-McRae College relieves its IT infrastructure of server sprawl and goes all-flash with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

Lees-McRae College, a private residential college in North Carolina, was burdened by server sprawl and aging infrastructure: six standalone Hyper-V hosts with end-of-life hardware, frequent spinning-disk failures, no failover, slow 1Gbps live migrations, and time-consuming maintenance that left VMs offline during host updates.

The college deployed StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), moving from six spinning-disk servers to a two-node all-flash hyperconverged cluster that provides redundancy, instantaneous failover, faster VM migrations and simpler maintenance. The consolidation reduced footprint and costs, saved more than $13,000 in upfront expenses, and was supported by comprehensive StarWind implementation assistance.

Lees-McRae College

Ben Holtsclaw

Director of Technology Services