Simplifying Enterprise IT. 800.283.6387 // datanetworks.com ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND is a liberal arts college located 70 miles southeast of Washington, DC. Boasting several honors undergraduate and master’s degree programs, SMCM has a total student enrollment of approximately 1,800. The college maintains a 10-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio, and 90% of its students live on campus. The challenge SMCM’s Offi ce of Information Technology (OIT) had originally installed and maintained virtual machines (VMs) hosted on a two-node (active-active) cluster of Dell PowerEdge R710 servers. This cluster supports the college’s enterprise software applications, including critical systems such as those for student information and tuition payment recordkeeping. Within two years, the c

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