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Scale Computing Platform

Overview

What is Scale Computing Platform?

Scale Computing offers edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions for customers around the globe. Scale Computing HyperCore software promises to eliminate traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system…

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Love SCP

10 out of 10
December 07, 2023
Incentivized
We utilize the Scale Computing Platform as a central element of our IT infrastructure. SCP provides us with a highly scalable and …
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Pricing

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HE151

$3,300

On Premise
per node

HE501

$6,800

On Premise
per node

HC1300

$11,900

On Premise
per node

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.scalecomputing.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $3,300 per node
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Product Details

What is Scale Computing Platform?

Scale Computing offers edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions for customers around the globe. Scale Computing HyperCore software promises to eliminate traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. The vendor says that, using patented HyperCore™ technology, the SC//HyperCore self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects problems in the infrastructure in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. The vendor says ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO are key differentiators. The product works for distributed enterprises, global retailers, and SMBs alike.

According to the vendor, its 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 Screenshots

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 VMsScreenshot 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

Scale Computing Platform Videos

SC//Platform Success Story - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
SC//Platform Success Story - American Foundry Group
SC//Platform Success Story - Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township

Scale Computing Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Unix
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobally
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Scale Computing Platform starts at $3300.

VMware vCenter, VMware ESXi, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are common alternatives for Scale Computing Platform.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Scale Computing Platform are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Scale Computing Platform Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)20%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)70%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)10%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • 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
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Deploying new servers is ridiculously easy and fast. New servers require zero additional space or power.
  • Scale Computing Platform affords a powerful and convenient backup capability. Not only by snapshots of whole VMs, we can fetch individual files out of those snapshots.
  • Updates to the Scale Computing Platform itself are beautifully self-contained. The backend software moves VMs and processes between running nodes as they update and reboot. There are no user interruptions and no notifications of same are needed.
  • In my experience, we use Active Directory and Scale Computing Platform has yet to implement robust support for domain controller snapshots. This Microsoft feature (VM-Generation ID) allows a restored domain controller to properly re-integrate with AD.
December 07, 2023

Love SCP

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • VMs transitioning from one host to another without any sort of hiccup or service interruption
  • all in all very thoughtful and strategic usefull GUI
  • Automated and transparent replication of VMs towards DR nodes
  • Shell access for experienced and SCALE certified users
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer support and service is outstanding.
  • Updates and upgrades are hassle-free with no downtime.
  • No need to worry about hardware, BIOS, drivers, firmware.
  • Outstanding handling of snapshots with thousands of snapshots possible with almost no disk cost and no IO costs. We snapshot each VM every hour and keep snapshots for 48 hours and 2 weeks.
  • REST API can be used to create your own reports and scripts.
  • The Hypervisor just runs. No downtimes since it was integrated 2 years ago.
  • Replication to another cluster is very easy
  • It exposes no backup API. You have to treat VMs as physical machines, with all the drawbacks. This is a huge problem, since the official partner Acronis can't deliver. If you ever worked with Veeam you want it back very very badly.
  • Assigned RAM is used RAM. The hypervisor can't share memory or only allocate what is used etc. It's wasted RAM most of the time.
  • No logging and auditing. (There is, but not visible to the customer).
  • The GUI is quite bad. It looks like done by a designer instead of an IT expert. But it's improving constantly.
  • The company relies heavily on KVM, but seems to have no developer in the open source community. This leads to answers like "we can't do anything about QEMU drivers". Yes, you can. Have delevopers working on it.
  • You can't do basic things like list all of your VMs and see how much RAM/disk, etc. they are using (e.g. in a list view).
  • No rules on which VMs start on which nodes, which VMs to prioritize, etc.
December 07, 2023

... we did it !

Alois Höller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Snapshot handling
  • Failover handling on the nodes
  • easy to use dashboard
  • Support
  • with Acronis there is only one backup solution partner, there are still topics to solve
  • only real time performance parameters as CPU, RAM, networking, to chance to analyze
December 06, 2023

Can't Beat Their Support

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tech support.
  • Loading ISOs.
  • Updating firmware.
  • Migrating VMs into Scale is not as easy as it was with VMware.
  • Our nodes are Lenovo, not a fan of Lenovo.
  • Would like to see more historical performance metrics in the UI.
September 28, 2023

Simplicity delivered

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to set up and install, you can get a clust up and running in undar an hour
  • Great costumer support
  • Snapshot capabilitys helps with cloning for testing
  • It doesn't have an area where you can view the cluster's resource consumption over time, only the current consumption.
  • It does not have integration with the leading backup players in the market, requiring the installation of agents on individual VMs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • In terms of relations between the distributor and partners
  • support and TAT for concerns and technicalities
  • Product highlights and technology that fits customers' requirements.
  • easy access to reconfiguration of the nodes
  • 24/7 technical support (online)
  • built-in firewall since another brand has this feature.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Snapshots are lean and fast, so restore time is simply amazing. When you don't have time to wait after a crypto attack to restore, I have found nothing faster!
  • Clients can never fully know their growth for years to come, and sometimes it is only a year after the original install. This is no problem we can build on to the system like Lego blocks. Just simply adding a node or two and there is no downtime!
  • There are many functions that can be done while servers are running that help to maintain the most uptime, as an example disk size on the primary disk can be expanded without shutting down the server.
  • Currently there is nothing I would change.
Chad Mayton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer Service is top notch and they have real concern for customer needs.
  • Technical assistance/setup is excellent and knowledge base is thorough.
  • Ultra-responsive sales and support team that can get through highly improbable challenges.
  • Possibly more engineers/techs due to scheduling being very tight timeframes.
  • There were features I wasn't aware of till a year after (example some API capabilities).
Rob Honma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Price Performance
  • Easy Administration
  • US-Based Support
  • Migration Tools - Uses Third Party software to implement
  • Lack of third-party backup tools that are industry standard
  • Reduce the friction from migrating from Vmware to Scale
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Back up and DR
  • Server performance
  • Single pane of glass for easy server management and creation
  • Support for Cisco OVAs and servers
  • Better explanation of snapshot usage
  • Better explanation of data usage
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simplifies maintenance and upgrade times.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Robust backup solutions available.
  • Compatible with leading backup vendors such as Acronis and Wasabi.
  • Better support for legacy OS's.
  • Better support for legacy hardware.
  • 3rd party implementation documentation.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use
  • Setup was not complicated
  • Support has been good to work with
  • The node devices have fans that are fairly loud when they spin up. We had to insolate our network room door to keep the noise level down.
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