Case Study: Rank Group achieves high availability and full encryption with StarWind Software (StarWind VSAN)

Rank Group PLC Upgrades Its Retail to Highly Available Levels Without Buying New Hardware — StarWind VSAN

Mecca Bingo & Grosvenor Casinos (Rank Group) operates more than 130 venues across Great Britain and needed redundancy, maximum speed, and full data encryption to support 24/7 high-volume transfers. With VMware VSA retired and VMware vSAN requiring costly hardware upgrades, Rank had to find a scalable, fault-tolerant storage solution that would fit space- and budget-constrained retail sites.

StarWind Virtual SAN, already used at corporate locations, delivered a hardware-agnostic, fully encrypted virtual SAN that provided high availability and fault tolerance without adding servers or large racks. Leveraging log-structured write-back cache, mirroring, iSER and data locality, the deployment achieved constant uptime, maximum bandwidth, minimal server requirements, and strong vendor support through migration.

Rank Group

Craig Prosser

Head of IT Infrastructure