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What is Scale Computing Platform?
According to the vendor, key features and benefits include:
- Install in less than an hour
- Deploy new VMs in minutes
- Built-in Browser-based Management
- Software-defined, hybrid storage system with automated tiering
- Fully integrated, cluster-wide resource utilization and alerts
- Single vendor support experience, no disparate systems to integrate
- Integrated all-in-one appliance
- Scale-out Architecture
- Mix and match new nodes
- Incremental resources improve performance of existing workloads
- Fast and easy to expand, no downtime required
- No additional licensing required
- Start small and grow as your business grows
- No forklift upgrades
Scale Computing Platform Features
- Supported: Simplicity
- Supported: Availability
- Supported: Scalability
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- SC//Platform is a complete platform for running applications at the edge, with all of the software, hardware, and services needed. Regardless of your hardware requirements, the same innovative software, SC//HyperCore, and industry-first SC//Fleet Manager give you the power to run infrastructure efficiently at scale
- Scale Computing HyperCore saves you time and valuable resources because your software, servers, and storage are in a fully integrated platform. The same innovative software and simple user interface power your infrastructure regardless of your hardware configuration.
- Scale Computing Fleet Manager is the first cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool built for hyperconverged edge computing infrastructure at scale. It’s now easier than ever to securely monitor and manage your entire fleet of clusters running Scale Computing HyperCore. For IT Managers with multiple clusters, maintenance time will be reduced by 50% or more with the simplicity designed into this industry-leading platform.
- This document is intended to describe the technology, concepts and operating theory behind the Scale Computing HyperCore OS that powers it, including the SCRIBE (Scale Computing Reliable Independent Block Engine) storage layer.
Scale Computing Platform Integrations
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
- Parallels Remote Application Server
- Leostream
- Cloud Unity - Google
Scale Computing Platform Competitors
Scale Computing Platform Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 70% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 10% |
Scale Computing Platform Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Unix |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Globally |
Supported Languages | English |
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Scale Computing Platform 6 Month Overview
- Snapshots
- User interface
- Simplicity
- Tech support
- Ability to edit the cluster NICS for each node of the cluster
- 2FA on users logins for the nodes themselves
Scale Computing for the WIN!
- Customer/Technical Service is top notch.
- Communicate with Customers in regards to updates, news, how-to's.
- They do not overstate the systems capabilities to simply make a sale, 100% honest.
- Market their user community more as it is a great tool!
- Eliminates the need for separate storage, compute and networking.
- Simplistic
- Fully integrated right out of the box.
- I do not see anything from a negative standpoint at this time, comprehensive product.
- Server creation
- Redundancy
- Migration
- Pro services - implementation
- Replication data compression
Scale Computing -> Best Value
- Setting up and provisioning a new VM is super simple.
- I come from a VMWare environment but the Scale UI is very easy to understand. I can imagine for someone new they would be able to learn the task of managing the cluster very easily.
- Snapshots and clones are processed super fast.
- I would like to be able to see actual disk availability instead of the raw number of TB.
- The ability to copy and paste from your local machine to a VM seems like missing functionality, it is very useful to have.
- I guess it's not a problem specifically with Scale, probably more with KVM and backup vendors but I really did enjoy having a backup system that worked across the whole hypervisor, it just simplified things a lot.
- I would like to see the breakdown of the VMs and the amount of RAM they are consuming changed a bit. If its a VM with less than 6 GB it doesn't show on the dashboard. Maybe if it was a pie chart it would be easier? Not sure but just something different would be nice so you could see all the VMs.
Scale HC3 Review
- Centralized server management
- Quick visibility of the health of the server environment. It provides tools to provide a quick glance at the infrastructure
- Increased backup/redundancy of data without additional products or implementations
- More server statistics in the environment window
- History of CPU usage, disk space/usage/ net traffic. It is currently being monitored but not logged.
- Ability to customize reports and automate the e-mailing of those reports.
Scale is a great solution with second to none support
- The best thing about Scale is its simplicity. I used a VMWare solution for the past 5 years and never really felt like I had a grip on how to fully use it. I've had Scale in place for less than 6 months and am so confident in it, I feel as though I could almost train someone else on how to use it.
- Scale's technical support is second to none. I've had a couple of issues with it and everyone I've spoken with is knowledgeable, friendly and eager to help resolve any issue.
- With previous solutions, updating firmware is a large endeavor compared to Scale. Scale actually recommends doing it during production time instead of scheduling downtime during evenings or weekends. It makes managing everything easier without me having to come into work on my off time.
- 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.
- The cluster uptime is exceptional.
- Performance is very good.
- There is a solid web based configuration interface.
- Modern SSO Authentication with MFA.
- VM Auto-start controls are missing.
Scale Review
- Management. It is very easy to manage your environment through one pane of glass. You know the health of your hardware by just looking at the main page.
- Support. Their support is all based here in the U.S. They are very timely to get to you, and they keep you informed throughout your issue.
- Price. They are very well priced for what you get.
- Compatibility. Some manufactures don't have products that will run on the KVM kernel.
Scale Computing HC3 is a Business Must-Have!
- Reliability.
- Ease of use.
- Support.
- Expandable
- Combined with Leostream its benefits increase drastically.
- Backup battery interfacing for power shutdowns.
Scale Computing HC3 - Scales up to meet your needs.
- Scale Computing HC3 allows me to spin up a test environment in minutes, not hours.
- With HC3, it is easy to clone a machine, take a snap shot or backup a system. Literally just a few clicks and you are done.
- HC3 also provides peace of mind that if one-node goes down, the other can spin up easily without missing a beat.
- In place upgrades of the interface is great, I don't have to have a maintenance window to do routing updates to the interface.
- I have had very few issues with the HC3 system. It did have a glitch which would not allow me to upload files to the system using the Chrome browser but tech support helped me with a work-around.
- I don't particularly like the way the web-site knowledge base is put together but I am getting used to it. Thankfully, I haven't needed to use it very much.
We run both VMWare and HC3 virtual servers. We are currently running our SQL Server and two terminal servers on our HC3 system. I was reluctant to move the SQL server to a virtual environment due to lag-time issues, but there hasn't been a noticeable lag in our SQL Server. We run all of our payroll, accounting and production software systems on the HC3 nodes. Next up, we will be moving our Exchange system to our HC3 platform as well.
HC3 works for me!
- Their tech support is very good, though I have only had to call a couple of times over the last five years for minor issues.
- Their sales staff keeps in touch on a regular basis. Some vendors will only call for a sale and assume everything is fine if they aren't hearing from you.
- The user interface is easy to learn, from creating and scheduling snapshots to creating virtual machines for running test scenarios.
- Scale Computing HC3 has met all of our company's needs.
Scale HC3 Review
- Support is great
- Easy to add a node
- Snapshotting is simple
- Recovering a VM from a snapshot is cumbersome.
Scale Computing - Why we ditched VMware and Went to HC3
- GUI - The interface is leagues above VMware and is very easy to use. It also supports OSX, which is something we value.
- Ease of VM setup - Once you have the ISOs and drivers loaded, it takes almost no time to spin up a new virtual machine.
- Overview and system alerts - Scale is excellent with providing a snapshot of your system resources as soon as you log in and also sends out timely emails to notify you when there are issues.
- Load balancing - Sometimes when a drive goes out, the entire system has to go through a lengthy re-balancing process.
- Firmware updates - Scale does a great job at improvements on their firmware, getting a swing-cluster to make those upgrades is difficult.
- Support - Scale has amazing phone support and always has a knowledgeable tech available for critical issues. Smaller issues seem to get lost and it can be difficult to keep track of non-priority tickets.
Scale HC3 - a great hyper-converged solution for SMB
- Ease of use - initial setup is very simple, and setting up and using virtual machines through their GUI is even simpler.
- Customer Support - super fast response times, and very knowledgeable staff. I wish all support teams I deal with were as good as Scale.
- Scaleability - adding new nodes is a breeze.
- Difficult to resize virtual hard drives.
Scale tips the scale accross the board
- Easy to use.
- Best support I have ever dealt with.
- Sales that actually listens to you.
- I can't think of any.
Perfect system for us, peace of mind with performance.
- High availability.
- Support.
- Ease of use.
- I am used to more options to tweak. Scale's focus is ease of use but I'm used to being more in control of all options.
Scale is wonderful, not only as a virtualization platform but for increased DR capabilities as well.
- Snapshotting - Scale is great at scheduled snapshots to add a layer of redundancy to any DR plan. it can also send snapshots to a remote scale system to act as a VM platform and a DR platform all at once
- Cloning - If there is an issue with a machine, it is extremely easy to clone it and work on it outside of production
- Ease of use - overall getting it set up required 2 or 3 command line commands and the nodes did all the work themselves. Uploading ISOs is easier in Scale than any other hypervisor I've ever used
- Replication - We utilize a second set of nodes in our DR site that all core servers replicate to hourly. We have never had an issue with failed replications over a VPN
- More support for importing VMs from XenCenter
- I wish the main interface was more organized, I know the users can make it very organized by using tags and such, but by default, it is very chaotic
- Better logs for admins to understand what is going on. The current logs don't let us know anything outside of knowing we need to contact support
- The ability to expand drive size instead of requiring cloning
HC3 will change your server world!
- Backups. I love how I can create multiple scheduled backups for one machine so I can have hourly, daily, and weekly backups of our SQL and then can set lower backup schedule for something as simple and the Domain Controller to once a week.
- Updates. Because we have multiple nodes, we can do the updates and the machines will auto load a balance so nothing has to be down while updating.
- Speed. These units are fast, like bringing up a fresh install of Windows Server 2016 in 20 minutes. Including the install! I find myself duplicating machines all the time just to run small tests because creating a duplicate only takes like 1 minute.
- I did notice when we were switching from our old servers to the HC3 that the importing process was not all that easy unless you were already running on a newer hypervisor.
Scale HC3 review
- Very easy implementation and migration.
- Great support from Scale Computing.
- A good path for expansion and growth.
- Firmware is so simple, Scale technical support backs up our data, implements the updates and verifies all servers are operational.
- I would like to see Scale allow a totally different snapshot scheduling for our offsite backups.
- More training for end users to allow us to see potential issues.
Hyperconvergence made simple!
- Hardware and software support.
- Simple user interface.
- Rapid deployment and resource allocation.
- Remote console is lacking in features.
- Integration with more partners, such as Veeam.
- No reporting.
- HDD storage always reflects maximum usage, not current usage.
- Sort and filter logs.
High-powered hyperconverged environment without the high cost!
- Performance increase over previous virtual environment
- Easy setup and configuration
- Easy migration from previous virtual environment
- Support from Scale Computing was fantastic.
- VLAN setup was a bit tricky due to our current LAN environment and limitations on the number of Scale network interface cards.
One of the best IT decisions I've ever made
- Server virtualization
- I/O performance
- customer service
- None
Scale: Smart, Simple, Effective, Reliable, and so much more...
- Scale's hyperconverged environment presents a single pool of resources that support our VMs. It intelligently handles decisions related to storage provisioning and load balancing across nodes.
- Snapshots and replicas are created in a few clicks within a simple to use web interface. Gone are layers of settings found in some other products we've used.
- The 'at-a-glance' dashboard tells me everything I need to know about the current status and utilization of the Scale cluster.
- The ability to cut, copy, and paste into a console in a browser tab would be wonderful.
- I appreciate the ability to click on the storage gauge on the dashboard and drill down into detail. Shouldn't that be available on every gauge?
- The ability to schedule exports, restarts, etc from the management interface would be useful.
The business team re-organisations were large scale and had been under NDA so minimal preparation could be undertaken. The project had already set a budget in advance.
Therefore we needed a quick to deliver, cost effective way of providing the environments, with DR, within each organisation, for use by employees from the other organisation.
To this end we deployed 16 x Lenovo based Scale HC3 appliances, 4 to each of 4 data centres with each pair of data centres belonging to the individual companies. In this way, we hit the timescales, hit the budget and provided a robust solution hosting, in total, circa 1200 VDIs complete with a replicated DR instance
- As an appliance, it comes ready built and with all licenses included. No VMWare, no vCentre, no fiddly build steps
- On site resilience is built in to the cluster - and it works; as does cross site replication for BCP/DR
- Remote support and the pre tested upgrade facility are good and work - our outsourcers hate it as it doesn't need much outside a service desk call to have some Scale
- Cross site VM migration is a feature on the roadmap we are looking forward to
- When dealing with hundreds of VMs all needing the same change e.g. replication settings, being able to select those as a group or set would have been a good timesaver
- Accessibility to external monitoring could be simpler - it takes a support call to turn it on. Whilst it is understandable that end users are kept away from the configs that make it work, some elements such as simple SNMP names and trap settings could be menu driven.