A school division covering about 110,000 square miles replaced a fragile Hyper-V setup with a cluster that was running 30 minutes after power-up.
The situation
Northland School Division No. 61 serves about 2,900 students in 24 schools across northern Alberta. Its Hyper-V servers and SAN offered poor fault tolerance, and the hardware had roughly a year of life left.
What they did
The division deployed a three-node Scale Computing cluster running 19 virtual machines, with an offsite second cluster considered for disaster recovery.
The result
The system was up 30 minutes after power-up and building VMs within the hour. The network administrator no longer provisions SAN disk space and LUNs.
Why it matters
Remote schools, long distances and small teams are a Canadian reality. Built-in fault tolerance means a failed node is a ticket, not a crisis.
Source: Cantech Letter (2016). This organization is a Scale Computing customer, not a Connex client.