Scale Computing HC3 vs VMware vSAN

• 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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• I have had zero problems with vSAN storage and don't even think about it on a day-to-day basis.
• It allows me to throw a bunch of JBODs together and make an enterprise grade SAN out of it.
• Allows a single pane of glass for managing our virtual infrastructure.

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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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• It would be nice to have fabric-based storage acceptance to disaggregate storage and expand beyond the node concept. The assumption that increased storage needs require increased compute or ram is simply not true.
• The licensing costs are high but you do get what you pay for.

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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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• The ROI for VMware vSAN seems very positive. We have yet to need to upgrade since we put it in a few years ago, but without the heavy cost of dedicated storage, we have already seen reduced hardware maintenance costs and reduced management time spent.
• With the cost of dedicated storage and its separate maintenance costs, all this is rolled back into the hosts. The hosts cost more with drives in them, but not near as much as the separate dedicated storage did.
• Before VMware vSAN, you had hosts and storage devices aging out, running out of capacity, or underperforming. With vSAN you only have to worry about the hosts.

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