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Scale Computing Platform

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353 Reviews and Ratings

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Screenshot of Scale Computing Fleet Management Dashboard - At-a-glance summary of the health of the fleet upon login.
Screenshot of Cluster Details - Details of a particular cluster, including health, fleet manager connectivity, nodes, and VMs
Screenshot of Scale Computing Fleet Manager - Manages an organization’s fleet of Clusters.
Screenshot of Hypercore UI - Simple Web Interface for Local Management of the Cluster and its Workloads

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Screenshot of Scale Computing Fleet Management Dashboard - At-a-glance summary of the health of the fleet upon login.

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Scale Computing Platform - 2024 Review

Seth Wheeler
Systems Administrator I in Information Technology at Specialty Coating Systems (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Scale Computing Platform to host our production servers in a virtual environment. The ability to scale out our VMs according to our business needs is a great help. We are a Small-to-Medium Business and the ability to be "hands off" with our hosting platform has been a great help.

Pros

  • Simple UI and Controls
  • Live VM Exporting to File Shares
  • Turns Virtual Environment maintenance into an easier task

Cons

  • Dedicated Lights-Out Solution for low-end systems
  • Ability to replace smaller storage drives with larger ones, rather than requiring the addition of an entire node for storage increases
  • Different UI views for VMs: ability to minimize certain groups and have that persist through log-ins

Return on Investment

  • Positive: Having our hardware, software, and support costs under one umbrella makes it easy to track renewals and compare year-to-year costs.
  • Positive: 5-year terms on software/support allows us to essentially depreciate costs over a longer period.
  • Negative: In order to upscale our cluster, we cannot add individual components to our nodes like with other competitors. The cost of adding a node just to get additional storage or memory can be painful.

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi, Hyper-V and XenServer

Other Software Used

Remote Desktop Manager, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, FortiClient

Fantastic Product!

Matthew WestView profile
Automation Professional in Engineering at Barilla America (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As the Automation Professional for a large pasta manufacturer, I use the SCALE computing platform to host all of the plant's automation servers. As a 24/7-363 operation, these systems are critical for our day-to-day operations. We have been using the SCALE computing system for five years and have found it to be reliable, easy to operate, and manageable. In the rare case when I've had to call for technical support, the service has been prompt and professional. I would highly recommend SCALE Computing and their products!

Pros

  • Creation of VM's are easy and quick.
  • Managing updates.
  • Tech Support.
  • Quick turnaround of replacement components.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to create VM's save time and money on development.
  • VM's can be spun up quickly and dynamically without the need to upgrade hardware.

Other Software Used

FactoryTalk by Rockwell Automation

Getting a leg up with SCALE.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Scale Platform allowed us to migrate several of our aging bare metal systems to a virtualized environment that allowed us greater redundancy, lower operating costs, and easier management. Despite being a small company, we had many initiatives that required in-house systems for development and production. Additionally, a reluctance to move our services to the cloud prompted us to run the services we needed (email, file services, database services) on systems we personally maintained. The use of Scale provided a more efficient and cost-effective solution for managing the individual group of on-premise systems.

Pros

  • Exchange 2019.
  • Microsoft Server 2022.
  • Spinning up new servers or virtual workstation terminals for quick testing or providing temporary workspaces to transient staff/contractors.

Cons

  • Better efficiency of resources use for the purpose of being able provision the systems in the cluster with fewer resources but still support failover to two of the three systems in the cluster.
  • Integration with legacy storage and processing resources.
  • More robust redundancy with network architecture.

Return on Investment

  • Lower power costs.
  • Simplified management = more hours spent innovating.
  • Responsiveness to client and staff computer resource requirements.
  • Fully integrated backups for easy and fast recovery.

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi and CentOS Linux

Other Software Used

Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS

Scale Platform support our local police dept.

Incentivized
Bob OKeefe
Director of Technologies in Information Technology at City of Gardner (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, we have a 3-node Scale Cluster running the servers at our Police Department. We had a VMWare solution, but for the local tech staff, it was too cumbersome and expensive. Scale is very simple for the Police Dept to manage.

Pros

  • Updates - Almost a single button to push and then Scale completes all updates.
  • Cloning - Again a single button and done.
  • Setup - The setup of all 3 nodes took approx 1 hour.

Cons

  • We have used Scale for just under a year and have not yet noticed any area that needs improvement.
  • I actually joked with my Scale rep that the system is so easy to manage and foolproof that we don't login to the console often enough and can never remember the password

Return on Investment

  • Simple management has freed up staff to do other tasks.
  • Our plan established a simple annual budget which is needed in a local government.

Other Software Used

VMware vSphere, Azure Virtual Machines

Great hyper-converged server solution

Incentivized
Carlos Coque
System Administrator in Information Technology at IBEX Payroll Services (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Scale Computing Platform servers to run our online web application. These servers are easy to update, have reliable performance, and work in high availability, which means that if one node in the cluster fails, the system will remain online. They also have copies of our data in multiple drives, which means that if a single drive fails no impact is noticed. Scale support is quick and competent as well and that is an asset when you have trouble and need to react quickly. These were the main concerns that were improved when compared with the previous set of servers we had.

Pros

  • Reliable performance
  • High availability
  • Easy firmware updates
  • Great support

Cons

  • Management interface
  • Hardware upgrades on the current servers
  • Longer server/system support/lifespan
  • Pricing

Return on Investment

  • Increased confidence in our service availability
  • Increased resources to grow up to the hardware limit
  • Replication between environments

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and HPE SimpliVity

Other Software Used

Malwarebytes

Usability

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