St. Josefshaus Hospital Selects StorMagic Virtual SAN

St. Josefshaus, a hospital and nursing home in Hausen, Germany offering services to young and older people, has selected StorMagic, Inc. to refresh its infrastructure.

The servers and storage that support all of the facility’s applications (including Citrix Desktop, back office and central infrastructure) were due for a refresh, and their infrastructure had no redundancy – if there was a serious problem with a server, all of the facility’s IT operations could be impacted and restores would have to be retrieved from backups. This proved time-consuming and could impact the quality of care provided to the residents.

St. Josefshaus’ IT department went looking for possible approaches that would deliver the performance and HA at the lowest possible cost. A major consideration was ease of use – they didn’t want to have to spend a lot of time training on a new system or administering it.

StorMagic and their systems integrator, SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH, worked with the IT department to architect a 4-node VMware compute solution – all based on StorMagic’s virtual SAN. This hybrid approach includes a 2-node SvSAN cluster that virtualizes all of the disk drives in the new HPE servers and provides high availability with synchronous mirroring between the two servers. This approach improved performance and it lowered costs.

Overall, St. Josefshaus is happy with the solution delivered as it provides the HA, performance and ease of administration required – and the solution was between 60 and 70% less expensive than other alternatives considered.

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