The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) employs 500 faculty and administrative personnel and runs over a thousand client systems supported by 32 servers serving nearly 2TB of data. Recently, enrollment had increased, resulting in several strains on the IT infrastructure. Exploding user data added 150 GB to the SAN each year and despite a regular purge, capacity was growing by over 4X annually.

The user space on the FC SAN was reaching nearly 90% utilization and allocating more storage for user data was not an easy option. Upgrading the existing FC SAN was estimated to cost at least $60,000 per switch, and the system could still only support 140GB drives.

Download this white paper to discover how VMI used iSCSI SANs to ease their spending and capacity issues, as well as server virtualization technologies to reduce their management challenges.