Case Study: Marion County R-II School District achieves 100% application uptime with StarWind Software (Virtual SAN)

Marion County R-II School District enhances its educational services by building a highly available (HA) infrastructure powered by StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Marion County R-II School District, a rural K–12 district in Marion County, Missouri, was running independent Dell servers with Hyper-V and no shared storage, which left it without failover, redundancy, or reliable backups. Frequent unplanned host reboots regularly took critical services offline, and budget limits prevented implementing a traditional SAN-based high-availability solution.

The district deployed StarWind Virtual SAN to create a Hyper-V failover cluster with built-in replication and scalable shared storage, plus expert support during setup. As a result, the virtual environment now maintains 100% uptime, servers stay current, key services remain available during maintenance, and the district has a cost-effective, growth-ready platform it confidently recommends.

Marion County R-II

Isaiah Jesch

IT Director