Hyper-V Virtualization Across the District

As students and teachers increased their usage of the applications and data available in the classroom, the growing load on the physical servers was becoming an issue. Technicians were fielding too many service-related phone calls every week to deal with the under equipped servers. Because data only existed on the directly attached disks on each server, management of the data was also challenging. In one instance of server outage the team scrambled to restore student and teacher data off of a server that would be offline for multiple days due to hardware failure.

“After meeting with Scale, it really broadened my perspective of what I needed - such as the ability to expand the storage. If I need to do a terabyte at a time, I can. And not only am I gaining storage, I’m gaining more caching and network ports to the storage. Other vendors were telling me I had to buy all that extra storage today. I didn’t need it - and it was doubling the price.”

- Chris Rogers,
  Technology Coordinator, Morgan County