Case Study: Boston University Medical Campus eliminates downtime and simplifies data management with StorMagic SvSAN

Boston University Medical Campus eliminates downtime and simplifies data management with StorMagic SvSAN

Boston University Medical Campus faced aging server infrastructure that required time-consuming, one-at-a-time updates causing downtime and would have needed ten physical servers to support future growth. Seeking a budget-friendly, resilient virtualization solution, BU — advised by Cisco — selected StorMagic SvSAN deployed on Cisco C220-M4 servers to modernize its campus infrastructure.

StorMagic implemented a two-server stretched SvSAN cluster with a remote witness in the main datacenter, integrated with VMware vCenter for simplified management; VMs automatically fail over between buildings so critical services (DNS, DHCP, authentication, monitoring) remain online. The deployment reduced hardware needs from 10 servers to 2 and delivered licensing costs about 30% lower than VMware vSAN, enabled live maintenance during business hours, improved redundancy, and provided responsive StorMagic support.

Boston University Medical Campus

Bryan Bettencourt

Network Engineer III