Scale Computing Platform Reviews and Ratings

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Scale is best suited to environments that do not have excessive external or proprietary peripherals. Integrating with tape drive backups or robot tape libraries can be problematic. The most effective use of Scale systems is for companies running multiple instances of the same operating system. The hypervisor's code/file-sharing nature does an excellent job managing new instances while keeping the increase in storage to a minimum.

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!

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy to use, super reliable, superb service.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Scale Computing Platform is excellent for building a virtual environment at a remote location. The ability to have 2TB of storage and 32GB of memory in a single node is effective for most sites. It is less appropriate for environments that rely heavily on virtual desktop. The support for Windows PC OS is not quite where it needs to be for that kind of implementation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Production servers running our business, including SQL and Oracle Databases. The scale was easy to deploy, and its simplicity makes it ideal for smaller IT shops with limited resources. After Broadcom bought out VMware, replacing it was required, causing a spike in VMware licensing costs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Due to its simplicity, it works great for smaller IT shops. However, it may not work if vendors are not fully supporting the platform. The scale needs to be more mainstream for some vendors to accept the platform and support their products, creating potential support issues.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Scale Computing Platform has replaced our previous environment which was a mixture of physical servers and a different, more complicated virtual environment. The previous environment was harder to use, and used quite a bit more energy, which once caused a power surge that forcefully powered down everything. Since switching to Scale Computing Platform, the environment is easy to use and manage, we have lower electricity costs, and any issues that have occurred were handled quickly and easily by support. We recently replaced our Scale Computing Platform cluster with a newer version, and the process was seamless.

Likelihood to Recommend

Honestly, I can't imagine a scenario in which I would not want to continue using a hyperconverged environment like this. It's scalable, so it could work for a larger environment than mine. I guess if your environment is too small to justify the cost of a small cluster then this would not be the solution for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the hyperconverged VM system to virtualize almost 100% of our servers. The VM interface is easy to learn and very easy to create and maintain virtual servers. We have about 25 servers running in three clusters of varying sizes. The snapshot backups have given us more security in knowing our data is protected. Additionally having offsite backup locations allows for the snapshots to be stored in a different Scale Computing Platform cluster in case of a physical disaster. We have worked with Scale Computing Platform over 10 years and still have some of the original nodes in use though they will be replaced soon. The best summary I can give you is that it just works!

Likelihood to Recommend

We have used Scale Computing Platform of over 10 years and their product has never failed us. When I have ran into an issue, support has been very quick to resolve the issue and keep us moving smoothly. The snapshot technology has given us confidence we can recover whenever a ransomware attack may come or any other Disaster Recovery as needed.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Scale Computing Platform for almost all of our Windows server systems (we still have one legacy system). I was introduced to Scale Computing Platform about 9 years ago and we have since been through and upgrade and a complete hardware replacement . We are currently planning on upgrading the hardware again next spring. Ease of use and outstanding technical support is why we stick with them.

We have SQL servers, Remote Desktop Servers and an Exchange Server all running on the Scale Computing Platform.

Likelihood to Recommend

I can't imaging our systems with Scale Computing Platform. It is a super reliable, easy to use alternative to VMWare. I have looked at other options but this is the best hyper converged platform I have found. Perfect for the company and the company's IT budget.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a small shop and only need a handful of VMs. Scale Computing Platform is cost effective and very easy to manage. Our 3 person IT staff is able to pretty much set and forget it. Updates are very simple to perform and non-disruptive to production, and support is great. They are fast and courteous. I have nothing but good things to say about my experience with our Scale Computing Platform implementation.

Likelihood to Recommend

For small to medium IT teams, Scale Computing Platform is amazing. You can get up and running in no time. Things just work. Support is fantastic. Management is simple. I have no doubt that you can scale to larger enterprise environments as well, but there might be some management concerns at large scale. Coming from VMWare, Scale Computing Platform is different, so there is a learning curve. It's not very steep, it just requires some getting used to. Once you understand the concepts, it's all very logical.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Scale Computing Platform has been great for our school system. We run servers including domain controllers, deployment servers, file servers, print servers, etc. These all run very fast and reliably. The Scale Computing Platform solution replaced a mix of VMWare servers and standalone servers. Having everything in a single platform minimizes work effort.

Likelihood to Recommend

The Scale Computing Platform is well suited for a school system where tech resources are often spread thin. Little maintenance is required and the product just works consistently.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Scale Computing Platform as our production hypervisor platform to manage 20-40 VMs. We migrated to Scale Computing Platform when we upgraded our data center and decided not to continue with VMWare. Scale Computing Platform offered a simpler, faster, cheaper and compared to our previous environment a more robust solution while providing us a U.S. based single-plane of support (server hardware, hypervisor & Acronis backup solution).

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe Scale Computing Platform shines in the small enterprise environment and it would work well in a medium/edge environment enterprise environment. Based on my experience with VMWare, I believe Scale Computing Platform's solution would struggle to meet the needs of a larger enterprise that relies on more robust, industry standardized system integrations for automation and management. The Acronis backup solution is robust, but Veeam is the industry standard for a reason.