Case Study: Keiser Corporation achieves resilient, disaster-proof storage and high availability with StorMagic SvSAN

Three-node cluster provides redundant storage, high availability and disasterproofing for sports equipment manufacturer Keiser Corporation

Keiser Corporation, a U.S. manufacturer of exercise equipment used by top professional teams and organizations, faced a critical resiliency gap: all servers and racks were housed in a single room at their Fresno factory with no tolerance for component failure or site-level disasters, and sprinkler-based fire protection posed additional risk. Keiser virtualized servers with VMware and engaged StorMagic to virtualize storage, selecting the StorMagic SvSAN solution to address high-availability and disaster-proofing needs.

StorMagic deployed SvSAN across a three-node cluster of Tyan servers (SvSAN 6TB Gold), placing each node in opposite corners of the factory and presenting highly available shared storage to 22 virtual machines. The SvSAN + VMware vSphere configuration—backed up with SEP Sesam—lets VMs automatically restart on surviving hosts, supports maintenance without downtime, eliminates the need for an external SAN/RAID array, and provides measurable capacity (about 2.5 TB usable SvSAN storage per node pair) and network performance (10GbE mirroring). As a result, StorMagic delivered redundant storage, improved uptime and disaster resilience, and turned hardware failures into non-emergencies for Keiser.

Keiser Corporation

Gus Gustafson

Information Systems Manager