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Hyper-V Cluster Deployment for Orange Water and Sewer Authority

Q4 2020

OWASA’s configuration at their Waste Water Treatment Plant consisted of Microsoft’s Hyper-V clustered on an HPe StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). The software-defined hyper-converged solution was recently announced to be reaching its end-of-support lifecycle in HPe’s portfolio. Additionally, OWASA’s data capacity needs were growing beyond the expandable capabilities of the VSA, and local networking capabilities were limited to 1 GbE of traffic. OWASA needed a solution that could scale both horizontally and vertically.

Data Networks recommended and implemented a Microsoft Hyper-V cluster deployment leveraging Microsoft Server 2019 Data Center Edition, replacing the existing cluster hosts systems with new Dell R640 servers. Additionally, Data Networks deployed a new pair of Juniper switches as a “Top-of-Rack/LAN & SAN Aggregation layer,” creating a modern, scalable solution with more dynamic performance to meet OWASA’s IT capacity requirements.

Tags: SLG, local, government, agency, hyperconverged, HCI