Case Study: Vmhotel achieves zero-downtime, highly available cloud infrastructure with StarWind Software

StarWind Becomes the Heart of Cloud Service Infrastructure for its Reliability, Availability, and Resilience

Vmhotel, a London‑based cloud service provider founded in the mid‑2000s, needed enterprise‑level resiliency for its small‑business customers as it moved to Microsoft Hyper‑V. To enable Hyper‑V clustering and Live Migration without the cost and complexity of traditional SANs, Vmhotel required an affordable, Windows‑based software iSCSI target that could support failover clustering and keep storage running continuously during maintenance.

Vmhotel selected StarWind Virtual SAN (deployed since 2008) for its performance, Windows integration, and active support. StarWind delivered a highly available virtual SAN that enabled server clustering and Live Migration, let Vmhotel upgrade hardware and OSs with zero VM downtime, avoided vendor lock‑in and extra storage costs, and ultimately provided the operational flexibility and reliability that retained customers and kept services continuously available.

Vmhotel

Aitor Ibarra

Director