Case Study: Newcastle High School for Girls achieves resilient Hyper-V clustering and seamless expansion with StarWind Software

Newcastle High School for Girls solves its clustering problem and achieves a desirable performance with the help of StarWind

Newcastle High School for Girls (GDST), a private UK school for ages 3–18, needed to expand its server infrastructure to introduce Remote Desktop Services but lacked the resiliency for a larger deployment. The school was running three separate Hyper‑V hosts with replication for DR and found traditional dedicated SAN options either expensive, a potential single point of failure (two would be needed), or would require a costly migration to VMware.

By deploying StarWind VSAN the school quickly added a SAN and built a full Hyper‑V cluster with much greater redundancy at a reasonable cost. The new setup tolerated a host failure with no noticeable downtime for end users, and the school is now confident it can scale RDS by adding another host in the future.

Newcastle High School

Andrew Taylor

ICT Operations Manager