Case Study: Cubic Mission Solutions achieves 4x faster deployments and 91% equipment weight reduction with VMware vSphere and vSAN

Cubic Mission Solutions Supports U.S. Troops in the Field with VMware

Cubic Mission Solutions builds compact, military‑grade C4ISR systems for U.S. and allied forces but faced the challenge of delivering secure, highly reliable compute and storage that are lightweight, rapidly deployable, and compliant with stringent DISA STIG security standards—without forcing troops to carry bulky, redundant storage hardware into the field.

By upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7 and vSAN (with automation via PowerCLI and monitoring with vRealize Operations), Cubic created rugged, small‑form‑factor servers that form virtual storage arrays in minutes. The result: a 91% reduction in equipment weight, field infrastructures stood up in under two hours (about 25–30 seconds to configure a host), roughly 4× faster deployments, all‑flash vSAN performance up to 700% faster, and hundreds of thousands of dollars saved while maintaining military‑grade security and availability.

Cubic Mission Solutions

Thomas Lynott

Director of Software Architecture