Lancaster Baptist Church Meets the Perfect Companion to Their Ever-growing IT Infrastructure — StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

April 30, 2024

Tom Francis

IT Director. An experienced IT professional with expertise in customer support, team building, and large-scale system testing.

CHALLENGE

Before implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Lancaster Baptist Church operated a Hyper-V cluster with a single storage server utilizing a RAID 5 array of SSDs. With over 1000 devices, 150 access points, and 50 switches accessing dozens of critical applications and services, the infrastructure lacked the necessary redundancy for expansion, upgrades, and disaster recovery (DR).

The church had previously experimented with Synology and considered Microsoft’s datacenter options but found them lacking in performance, support, and stability.

We needed redundancy to allow for expansion, upgrades, and DR. We have them now! The support is exceptional, the product is stable, and the pricing fits our budget.

Tom Francis, IT Director

SOLUTION

Lancaster Baptist Church chose StarWind VSAN as it provided the redundancy, high availability (HA), and DR capabilities the institution required, all within its budget. The solution not only provides the necessary redundancy for expansion and upgrades but also ensures business continuity in the event of unforeseen disasters.

The church plans to further increase its storage capacity as it migrates existing systems to Hyper-V. With StarWind as its partner, Lancaster Baptist Church is confident in its ability to scale its infrastructure while maintaining the level of reliability and performance required for its ministries.