Case Study: Westmoreland Mining LLC achieves highly available, cost-effective HCI without buying new shared storage with StarWind Software

Westmoreland Mining Upgrades Its Legacy Infrastructure to a Highly Available HCI Without Buying New Physical Shared Storage Thanks to StarWind

Westmoreland Mining, a 150‑year‑old energy-sector company with a focus on sustainable and responsible operations, needed to modernize virtualization at its remote office/branch office (ROBO) sites. Those locations relied on legacy SANs managed by VMware vSphere and faced end‑of‑life infrastructure and the risk of costly over‑provisioned VSAN solutions; the company wanted a cost‑effective path to hyper‑converged infrastructure without buying new physical shared storage.

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) delivered flexible compute and storage at the ROBO sites, providing highly available storage on affordable hardware and enabling modern HCI benefits and rock‑solid performance. The deployment replaced end‑of‑life equipment, avoided expensive new shared storage purchases, and met the IT team’s needs while staying within budget—backed by proactive support from StarWind.

Westmoreland Mining LLC