Case Study: Harpeth Hall School achieves increased processing rate and improved storage speed with StarWind Virtual SAN (StarWind Software)

With StarWind Virtual SAN® on Board Harpeth Hall School Enjoys Increased Processing Rate and Saves Budget

Harpeth Hall School, a private girls’ college-preparatory in Nashville, needed an urgent replacement for its EMC ViPR storage after it became a single point of failure and delivered insufficient performance. Director of Technology Justin Dover reviewed alternatives (Nimble was too costly; VMware would have required a costly migration from their Hyper-V environment) and sought a cost-effective, compatible solution.

They implemented StarWind Virtual SAN on their Hyper‑V infrastructure—bundled with Dell servers and 5nine antivirus—keeping costs down and avoiding platform rework. The deployment stabilized the virtualization environment and boosted storage performance: VEEAM observed processing around 300 MB to a 5-disk QNAP NAS, and overall processing rate and storage speed improved.

Harpeth Hall School

Justin Dover

Director of Technology