Budget-Conscious College Achieves Balance with Virtual SAN
Budget-Conscious College Achieves Balance with Virtual SAN
4 PagesBudget-Conscious College Achieves Balance with Virtual SAN The IT department at an Oregon-based college manages two open-use computer labs and one computer- equipped classroom. Because of financial restrictions, the college had originally purchased all of its servers with local storage, but that infrastructure could not handle the school’s growing workloads, and it required time-consuming upkeep. The college turned to the new VMware Virtual SANTM product, which addresses these and other concerns while offering a simple and scalable solution that fits within its budget. The Challenge The college’s computer lab infrastructure was procured over time. With the increasing use of technology in the curriculum, the loads placed on the computer lab infrastructure were outpacing bandwidth. “I had sp
