Pitt St OSD — consolidating VMware production and DR into a single 6-node Hyper-V S2D cluster
A complete migration from a 6-node VMware vCenter environment (3-node Production plus 3-node Disaster Recovery, managed via Site Recovery Manager) to a consolidated Microsoft Hyper-V Storage Spaces Direct platform. The result: lower licensing costs while keeping full high-availability and DR capability.
The Challenge
Two separate VMware clusters, one consolidation opportunity
The Pitt St OSD environment ran on a 3-node Production vCenter cluster and a separate 3-node Disaster Recovery vCenter cluster, orchestrated through VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). This dual-cluster model carried significant ongoing VMware licensing costs and added operational complexity: two environments to patch, monitor and manage instead of one.
What Rinfras Delivered
A single consolidated Hyper-V S2D cluster with full redundancy retained
Rinfras migrated the entire environment onto a modern Microsoft Hyper-V Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) platform, consolidating what had been two separate 3-node VMware clusters into a single 6-node Hyper-V S2D cluster. The new platform keeps full redundancy across the environment while removing the overhead of managing Production and DR as two separate VMware estates.
VMware to Hyper-V S2D migration
Full migration of a 6-node VMware environment (3-node Prod + 3-node DR via SRM) to Microsoft Hyper-V S2D
Single consolidated 6-node cluster
Production and DR consolidated into one highly available, resilient Hyper-V S2D cluster, with full redundancy retained
VMware licensing eliminated
Removing VMware vCenter and SRM infrastructure delivered significant ongoing licensing cost savings
Simplified management
One platform to manage instead of two separate VMware environments, cutting operational complexity
Outcomes
