Proxmox VE vs Scale Computing HC3 | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 16 reviews and ratings

Score 9.7 out of 10

Based on 249 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Proxmox VE

Scale Computing HC3

Virtual machine automated provisioning

Management console

Live virtual machine backup

Live virtual machine migration

Hypervisor-level security

Pros

Provides an easy to use management interface
Works with Ceph, a distributed storage natively
Virtualizing different platforms

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CTO

Maila NetworksComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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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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Senior IT, I&C Systems Coordinator

JX Nippon Chemical Texas Inc (JXNCTI)Chemicals, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Several options are available for storage. CephFS, the clustered built-in network storage, needs to be installed via the console or ssh. Other options like iSCSI do not support host migration.

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Technical Support Analyst

Nova Scotia Provincial GovInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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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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Network Administrator

Insight LightingElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE provides the most capable, yet stable virtualization platform in the market today. Licensing options are also competitive and cost-effective for support, and support is extremely fast and knowledgable of getting issues resolved as quickly and soundly as possible.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scale Computing HC3 8.1

Based on 9 answers

Since I have had no issues with downtime; easier management of my cluster and the ability to lower the number of devices in my Infrastructure, I will gladly renew my support contract with Scale Computing HC3 and upgrade my equipment with them when it comes time for it.

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Director of Technology

Systems 24-7Computer Software, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Out of every product I have used for this, Proxmox VE is the most concise, clear, and functional I have ever seen. I continue to use Proxmox VE even after occasionally comparing alternatives available because of it's usability, design concept, and great support of features. It's very unlikely I will find a product that can even compete with Proxmox VE in every angle of what Proxmox VE provides.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scale Computing HC3 9.1

Based on 6 answers

I was able to learn how to manage this system in minutes. I can go weeks without touching it and never have a problem. If something comes up like an update, I simply get an email notifying me to login and update my Cluster OS.

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Director of Technology

Systems 24-7Computer Software, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Proxmox VE 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE's ha-cluster functionality is very much improved, though does have a not-very-often occurrence of failure. In a 2-node cluster of Proxmox VE, HA can fail causing an instance that is supposed to migrate between the two nodes stop and fail until manually recovered through the command-line tools provided. Other than this, the HA clustering capability of Proxmox VE has proven to be reliable in 3 or more clustered environments with much less chance of these failures to occur.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scale Computing HC3 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Never had an outage or an error. Once a hard drive failed, but Scale kept on working flawlessly without interruption.

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Director Of Technology

Sabine Pass ISDEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Performance

Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE's interfacing is always fast to load, both the Web interface and the command-line tool interfaces. Reporting is practically real time almost all the time, and you can see everything in mere seconds, easily able to identify if something is wrong or it everything is in tip-top shape as always desired

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scale Computing HC3 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Performance has been just as outstanding as reliability. I have never experienced delays in any aspect of usage.

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Director Of Technology

Sabine Pass ISDEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

They are fast, understanding, very intelligent, know their product very well, fast, responsive, and concise. Need I say more?

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scale Computing HC3 9.9

Based on 174 answers

We had a lot of interaction with Scale support when we were getting started. Since then, we have only had a few (mostly routine) support issues. Every time, no matter which tech we speak to, we always feel like we are Scale's most important customer. The help we receive is excellent and well-informed. We never get the sense that someone is guessing, and most of the time we receive additional help or insight that increases our knowledge of, and appreciation for, the product. The people at Scale love their product.

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Director Of Technology

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLPLaw Practice, 51-200 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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Scale Computing HC3 1.0

Based on 1 answer

I did not do in-person training.

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Director Of Technology

Sabine Pass ISDEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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Scale Computing HC3 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Because Scale is so simple, the training is just as quick and easy.

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Director Of Technology

Sabine Pass ISDEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It worked, was easy and super fast to deploy, and provided everything we needed in a matter of minutes

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scale Computing HC3 9.1

Based on 2 answers

Purchasing the migration service or tool if one has older systems, a large number of servers, or coming from another VM solution would be a great advantage.

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Director Of Technology

Sabine Pass ISDEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

The Proxmox Cluster solution only requires a browser to control and manage all of your server resources. The other solutions require you to run a specific Operating System to manage them, getting awkward since the underlying technology runs on another OS. The native integration with Ceph is big move on this wonderful Storage Technology

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CTO

Maila NetworksComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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We chose Scale primarily because it was a completely self contained system. That meant one vendor and one support contract. Researching the different hardware components required for a vm system and multiple vendors of each component quickly got old. And thinking ahead toward maintaining such a system we did not want to deal with the headache of tracking down which component was causing us trouble and then having to prove that to the vendors.

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IT Manager

Tarus Products, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

Proxmox VE 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Proxmox VE provides everything you need to quickly add new storage mediums, network and local, as well as networking interfaces, such as using Linux standard bridges and now Open-vSwitch bridges which can be even more scalable than before. Proxmox VE 4.0 dropped support for OpenVZ in favor of the more well supported and native LXC and made an upgrade path to it very simple.

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System Administrator

Mobiquity, Inc.Recreational Facilities and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Scale Computing HC3 9.1

Based on 1 answer

HC3 is one of the best products I have purchased for our district. It is unbelievably reliable to the point that they shoot themselves in the foot on support contracts.

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Director Of Technology

Sabine Pass ISDEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Proxmox has allowed us to provide completely free training and an application development environment by reusing desktop hardware.

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Technical Support Analyst

Nova Scotia Provincial GovInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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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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Marshall Curtis

Director of Information Technology

Compass Housing AllianceNon-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Proxmox VE Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Scale Computing HC3 Editions & Modules

Edition

HC1200	$8,500¹
HC1250D	$15,170¹
HC1250	$9,665¹
HC1250DF	$16,750¹
HC5250D	$25,700¹

Per Node

Additional Pricing Details

Pricing shown in U.S. Dollar. Pricing for other regions available on request.

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