Case Study: Nitroserve achieves high availability and eliminates single point of failure with StarWind Software's Virtual SAN

StarWind Helps Hosting Provider to Overcome Single Point of Failure in Hyper-V Environment

Nitroserve, a Netherlands-based hosting provider that runs about 5,000 websites from a green data center in Rotterdam, faced a critical storage challenge: its load-balanced IIS and SQL clusters relied on single RAID10 iSCSI storage, creating a single point of failure. The company needed synchronous real-time replication with automatic failover and failback to eliminate downtime and ensure reliable, scalable service, but most solutions tested did not provide true real-time syncing.

After a month-long trial (including deliberate failure tests), Nitroserve adopted StarWind Virtual SAN for Hyper-V, which delivers synchronous mirroring, active‑active high availability, and automatic failover while running on existing Hyper-V hosts (no additional storage hardware required). The result was a fault-tolerant SAN that handles all iSCSI targets, maximizes use of existing servers, and provides the high availability and business continuity Nitroserve required.

Nitroserve

Sander van't Hullenaar

IT Director