Hyper-V vs Scale Computing HC3

• Allows you to dynamically add storage, memory, and networking, all without powering down the VM.
• You can set VM resources to adjust dynamically in response to what other VMs are doing, including weighting VMs based on the criticality of their functions. This is a great feature to ensure VMs "behave" themselves when dynamic resource allocation is utilized while ensuring that VMs that are spiking in utilization can automatically ramp up their resources to match the load.
• The Replica feature means you don't have to invest in expensive and complicated clustering technology if your goal is simply to achieve resiliency against hardware failure. Replica works really well, is easy to set up, and can even be placed in a remote location.
• If you're a Windows SysAdmin, Hyper-V is intuitive to deploy, monitor, and manage.
• I like that you can specify the boot order of the VMs when you power on the Hyper-V server. You can also stagger the "on" state of each VM so you don't overwhelm the host, and you can specify what happens to each VM after the host reboots.

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• Simple solution to managing storage, virtualization and snapshots on one page with not more than 3 clicks
• Excellent technical support with support built into the suite for quick access when required by the Scale Computing Technicians.
• High performance out of the Flash and Spinning Disks through HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering (HEAT)
• High availability feature helps in ensuring that there is no single point of failure

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• Initial Setup. Adding in new VMs is not an intuitive process. Going through the boot file, the ISO, and figuring out how to get that initial configuration right can be challenging.
• Stability. Overall, it's pretty stable, but I have had my VM crash unexpectedly more times than I expected. It's caused me to take certain precautions in how I handle the data that I keep on there.
• Connectivity. Although the Switch Manager is easy to use, establishing that initial connectivity within the VM can be tough. In a few instances, I had to do a number of resets and reboots in order to get it to work properly.

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• As with everything, I wish the price was a bit cheaper but by comparison to others but it's not bad when compared to similar solutions.
• Not that it was needed in my case but the option to have a Scale engineer on site for setup might be nice for some instances.
• The scheduling of the setup calls and training could be explained a little better and even possibly a quick overview of how to use the scheduling portion of the customer portal.

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• Being able to use one higher powered machine to then virtualize a multitude of other machines has definitely saved on hardware costs. The exact amount, however, is difficult to calculate.
• Initial setup of Hyper-V can be time consuming, and setting up individual VM's is more time consuming than setting up a real machine. However, once the initial setup is done, overall time costs are lowered.

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• The platform saved us 40% at deployment vs. traditional alternative and was a substantially smaller investment that alternative hyper-convergence solutions with similar performance specifications.
• We have been able to reduce head-count by one with the HC3 platform in place.
• We have been able to eliminate the annual licensing cost associated with VMware which added to the ROI of HC3.

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