Case Study: ProPortion Foods achieves up to 80% reduction in virtualization infrastructure implementation and maintenance costs with StarWind Software

ProPortion Food achieved IT TCO reduction and ensured scalability with StarWind

ProPortion Foods, a retail and foodservice company founded in 2009 with production facilities in Los Angeles and Round Rock, had an 80%‑virtualized VMware environment running on HP hosts backed by an aging, costly HPE MSA SAN. High warranty and upgrade expenses and the difficulty of achieving affordable high availability created a pressing infrastructure and budget challenge.

ProPortion deployed StarWind Virtual SAN on existing HPE servers (running as a Linux‑based VM), which simplified administration, made upgrades easier and reduced warranty costs. The solution delivered scalable, production‑grade storage on commodity hardware and cut virtualization implementation and maintenance costs by up to 80%, while halving Operational and Capital Expenditures.

ProPortion Foods

Nathan Hess

Director of IT