Case Study: Share IT Limited achieves high-availability storage and zero-downtime maintenance with StarWind Software (StarWind VSAN)

Share IT Limited expands the range of its IT services thanks to enhancing a production environment with StarWind

Share IT Limited is a UK bespoke managed services provider for SMEs that had built a highly available compute and network stack but suffered a single point of failure in storage. The company relied on single-node open‑source arrays that used RAM caching (risking data loss on power failure) and required disruptive downtime for patching, so it needed synchronous replication and a true HA storage solution to complete its infrastructure.

Share IT tested and deployed StarWind Virtual SAN as a 2‑node cluster on existing hardware, presenting iSCSI storage to both Hyper‑V and VMware over a dedicated 10GbE link with real‑time synchronous replication. The solution eliminated the storage SPOF, made RAM caching safe, allowed non‑disruptive patching and maintenance, and delivered markedly better performance and reliability at a reasonable cost while remaining easy to scale.

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