Virtualization enables University network to escape encroaching fires unscathed

In a case that rather dramatically highlighted the value of virtualization when it comes to business continuity, a team at the online Fielding Graduate University managed to relocate the entire network in just 25 hours as fire threatened to envelope the Santa Barbara, California datacenter where it was originally housed.

This was done by literally packing up the blade servers that the entire University ran on. Indeed, this was possible only because the school had just completed consolidating 30 servers running its Windows network onto a Hyper-V virtualized environment--just month prior. Hardware was in the form of four HP ProLiant BL460c blades with an HP MSA 1500cs SAN for a combined 2.4 terabytes of data storage.

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