Case Study: City of Milwaukee Water Works achieves high-availability business continuity without costly physical SAN with StorMagic SvSAN

Milwaukee gets business continuity for its water services without the cost of a physical SAN

The City of Milwaukee Water Works, which provides water and services to more than 860,000 residents, needed a cost-effective high‑availability solution with two mirrored data centers so losing one site would not interrupt services like billing, phone systems and water quality databases. After evaluating options, the City chose StorMagic and its SvSAN product to deliver mirrored datastores that meet their business‑continuity requirements.

StorMagic implemented SvSAN as a vCenter plugin and a two‑server mirrored storage solution that the City brought online in minutes, with StorMagic technical support assisting the rollout. The result: reliable, duplicate sites that maintain online applications without disruption while avoiding the high capital and operational costs of dual SANs, extra switches and added power consumption — delivering the continuity the City required at an affordable price.

City of Milwaukee Water Works

George Knops

Network Administrator