Case Study: MUM Industries eliminates IOPS performance bottlenecks cost-efficiently and gains high availability with StarWind Software's Virtual SAN

MUM Industries has removed performance bottlenecks in a cost-efficient way with StarWind Virtual SAN

MUM Industries, an industrial manufacturer of electrical enclosures and pumps, was running a VMware vCenter cluster of two hosts backed by an all‑HDD SAN but its IOPS‑hungry ERP system suffered severe month‑end performance bottlenecks. Replacing the SAN or moving to an all‑flash array would have been overkill and over budget, so the company looked for a virtual SAN solution.

MUM deployed StarWind Virtual SAN from StarWind Software, Inc., chosen for its minimal hardware footprint, cost efficiency and positive feedback on Spiceworks; unlike other solutions it runs on two hosts and avoided buying an extra server. Combined with targeted hardware upgrades, the deployment removed the bottlenecks, provided mirroring of data for high availability (keeping production running even with one host down for maintenance), and was less expensive than adding another host—an outcome Network Administrator Bryan Schuler endorsed.

MUM Industries

Bryan Schuler

Network Administrator