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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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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
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SC//Platform Success Story - Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Unix |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Globally |
| Supported Languages | English |
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- SC//Platform is a platform for running applications at the edge, with all of the software, hardware, and services needed. Regardless of the user's hardware requirements, the same innovative software, SC//HyperCore, and SC//Fleet Manager help to run infrastructure efficiently at scale
- Scale Computing HyperCore saves resources because its software, servers, and storage are in a fully integrated platform that power infrastructure regardless of the hardware configuration.
- Scale Computing Fleet Manager is a cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool built for hyperconverged edge computing infrastructure at scale. It can be used to monitor and manage an entire fleet of clusters running Scale Computing HyperCore. For IT Managers with multiple clusters, maintenance time can be reduced.
- This document describes 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.
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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
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 70% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 10% |
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January 30, 2018
Scale Computing HC3 - You won't Be Sorry
Our servers, physical and VMware VMs, have all been migrated to Scale HC3. Our engineering, assembly and machining departments depend on our Scale system for access to their 3D data. Our self-developed ERP system and in-house Wiki both exist in our Scale environment as well. Additionally, our software and training departments request VMs to be created to aid in development and testing of our applications.
- Scale provides a solid worry free VM environment for any SMB. We were looking to upgrade our VMware environment and found it quite daunting trying to piece together all the components necessary for a vm environment as well as the inevitable support contracts that would be scattered across different vendors. Scale combines everything you need into one turnkey solution. One appliance, one vendor, one support contract.
- Companies with a limited IT staff or who would rather free their staff from the administration concerns of a typical vm environment will benefit greatly from a Scale HC3. It truly is plug and play. Even the system updates are automated, moving vms around the nodes in realtime while each node updates with no disruption to the VMs.
- Built in High Availability, built in Load Balancing. Storage, Servers, VM os.. it's all self contained.
- Working with the VMs (creating, deleting, cloning) is easier on an HC3 than on anything else I have seen.
- I would like to have some access to the host system itself but I can see why it is locked away from the user. One of the main selling points of the system is it's hands free reliability. End users mucking things up would work against that.
- I would like to see a bit more robust back up system to have a truly 100% self sustained VM environment. The system allows you to create snapshots very easily, both manual and scheduled. But it would be nice to be able to set up a backup/restore with deduplication to external locations.
We use HC3 to virtualize ALL server assets. High performance, delegatable interface.
- Super easy to use, easy to delegate to technicians
- Much lower cost than most competing products
- Excellent support
- Could use better integration with UPS's. Currently UPS shutdown has to be handled by a separate windows system
- Sometimes, migrating other vendor's VM appliances can be a bit "fiddly"
January 29, 2018
Scale Review
We use Scale to house all our Windows servers, roughly 25 total. The reliability has been tremendous. Only real problem we have had is resizing hard disks in our VMs.
- High availability. We have had no unplanned downtime.
- Technical support is amazing. Very responsive.
- Easy to expand and grow.
- Can only use static memory
- Too cumbersome to expand hard drive in VMs
- Too hard to manage snapshots and storage
January 26, 2018
Scale HC3 is the Best
We have utilized Scale Computing HC3 to virtualize our entire server environment for our whole organization. This solved the issues of hardware related failures since the Scale Computing HC3 is in a cluster. It also solved the issue of us needing to update our hardware and provided us with a single pain of glass to view everything on it at once.
- Speed - Scale has increased our server performance drastically.
- Ease of use - The system is so easy to use and set up!
- Support - The scale support team is awesome and really knows their product.
- PRICE - You can't touch their price elsewhere for the performance that you receive.
- Make it easier to migrate from other hypervisors to scale without having to buy third-party software.
January 25, 2018
Scale Rules
It is used in our department for a variety of services. We have created different data storages and even created VM machines.
- Their service technicians are very professional. They assisted us with issues that we have encountered with our Scale product.
- At the present time, I do not see any missing functionalities with this product.
January 24, 2018
Scale is worth a look!
The Scale cluster manages the virtual machines which all employees utilize.
Currently only the IT team, which consists of 6 members, interacts with the Scale environment directly.
Currently only the IT team, which consists of 6 members, interacts with the Scale environment directly.
- Simple VM management interface
- Provides easy access to support streams
- Immediate system performance and alerting
- A granular user management system is required. The Scale interface lacks the ability to add user accounts with limited access to manage individual or groups of VMs. Remote access is an all or nothing security model.
- VM export is missing. An ability to export a VM from a cluster for external backup or transfer to another cluster which is not linked is also not supported.
January 23, 2018
Simply Amazing, the Node Cluster that can't be beat!
We use the Scale Computing HC3 across our whole organization to supply our Staff and customers with our software application. This infrastructure solves the issue we had with stability and redundancy when using servers in the past. Since purchasing and upgrading to this node cluster, we have never been happier or more confident in our solution to support our staff and clients.
- Hardware redundancy. Although I haven't had a need to use it yet, I know that all main failure points of any hardware has a redundant secondary to pick up in any failures.
- Easy upgrade; to update the Hyper visor or installing a new node is simple and easy to do. The configuration is a simple step by step process that even a non Techy person can follow.
- Automatic Snapshots; with the latest update for automatic Snapshots & Backups, I can control what backup schedule I want and mange my snap shots with ease
- VM Creation. I am constantly creating new Virtual machines for my programmers. With the easy to use tools provided by Scale, I can have a new VM up and running in seconds.
- Automatic Exports. Although they have the ability to create scheduled snap shots, I am waiting on the tool to allow us to automatically create exporting schedules to a 3rd party NAS
- Historical Reports, the Hypervisor allows us to see real-time reports of our cluster, but it would be nice to have detailed historical reports of this data to look for patterns in our software resources
January 23, 2018
Scale Computing HC3 Review
Scale Computing HC3 is being used across the organization to host several virtual server instances. It helps address our need for multiple, specialized, virtual servers, including redundant domain controllers, file servers, document management and enterprise resource planning servers. The separation of these server roles allows for finer control of potential downtime and reduces end-user impact.
- Virtual machine snapshots are an absolute breeze to create, store and recover if needed.
- The interface is incredibly intuitive and easy to use.
- Remote virtual machine management can be completed completely through a web interface rather than Remote Desktop Services, reducing our vulnerability footprint.
- The amount of RAM you specify when ordering the system is not completely available for virtual machines. You need to calculate the ability for VMs to fail over to remaining nodes in the event a single node fails.
- Integration with backup product vendors is severely lacking, causing difficulty in backing up full snapshots off site.
- The interface login is a simple username and password. It would be nice to integrate two-factor authentication to increase security.
January 22, 2018
My Weigh In on Scale Computing
We currently use Scale Computing HC3 as our central cluster for all of our VMs. It's mostly just our IT department that controls and uses it daily, while everyone around us benefits from the centralized product. We run web servers, point of sale, and network distributing virtual machines with our cluster. It provides a great and convenient interface that makes it easy for anyone of any networking background to manage and operate. It has been of great service towards our company in the past couple of years!
- Scale Computing HC3 provides a very efficient GUI, that makes it easy for us to maneuver from VM to VM.
- The displayed information of disk usage and RAM space helps us determine in what capacity we can use our cluster.
- We have dealt with the cosmetic issue for our individual VMs, where the disk space is showing incorrect on the interface, in contrast to the actual disk space showing within the VM itself.
January 22, 2018
A worthy investment
We utilize Scale computing products for deploying virtual systems within our company. These systems serve a variety of roles across our organization including individual workstation virtual desktops to dedicated file storage and domain controllers.
- New virtual systems are easy to set up and configure.
- Easy to transfer systems between nodes on the cluster offers great flexibility and control over the environment.
- The technical support they offer is great. The few times I have needed to contact them they have been quick to respond and resolve any troubles or questions.
- Customers need to be able to configure backups/snapshots of the systems. This is a bit of a confusing process that previously involved contacting support and have their engineering team update scripts when we bring a new system online.
- Pricing is a little high, but for the amount of features and services the Scale units provide, we have been able to justify the costs.
Our entire VMware infrastructure was replaced by the Scale HC3. This replaced all our VM servers, with the exception of a few that were transitioned to the cloud (AWS). It is being used to host servers that are used by 500-600 of our organizations staff. Scale has solved a number of different business problems we faced as a non-profit, one of which was the rising cost of other solutions and other vendors changing their tiering pricing structure forcing us into tiers that were overkill and overpriced for what we actually needed. Scale also allowed us to implement a disaster recovery solution which we did not have previously. Scale has consolidated administratrion of what used to be 4-5 disparate systems into one easy to manage and administer system.
- Disaster Recovery - We needed a disaster recovery solution that could get us up and running within hours if a primary node failed, and the disaster recovery tests and simulations we did proved to us the superiority of Scale compared to other onsite VM solutions. The process was very quick, easy, painless to clone and replicate VM's back to our primary nodes.
- It is so easy to manage VMs and set up automated snapshots.
- Migration from VMware and other solutions is easy and straightforward.
- Implementing true deduplication, though that is actually scheduled for a future release.
- More granularity in performance reports on servers and VMs.
- Error logs occasionally aren't helpful, e.g. too vague.
January 19, 2018
Time to Replace VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V with Scale HC3
Scale Computing HC3 is being used across the whole organization with a cluster at the corporate office configured for full two-way replication with another cluster at a branch office. This provides complete disaster recovery capability for both sites. Performance of both clusters is outstanding. Operational maintenance is almost non-existent. Setting up replication required only providing the name and administrator credentials for the remote cluster -- amazingly simple and automatic.
- Firmware updates are a non-event. They are released about twice a year and when you are ready to apply the update, you just click the button to authorize it. Then it just happens automatically, rolling from one server to the next with no down time. Of course you should verify that you have a full set of backups first and probably will want to do this during a "quieter" time but you could do it in the middle of a work day with only minor performance impact.
- Any agent-based VM backup, like Veeam Backup & Replication, works fine.
- I like that the failure of a disk drive is not a critical-level event. The cluster raises an alarm, automatically ensures that all data is re-duplicated, and a replacement disk is sent to you the next day for hot-swap. During the disk failure event all you have is just a little less disk storage available.
- The HEAT system which automatically migrates active data between fast SSD disks and the usual spinning kind as required to meet your performance priorities, is completely hands off.
- The recent addition of automatic disk data deduplication means better performance and less disk space usage.
- Taking snapshots is almost instant and does not "cost" additional disk space.
- Growth is amazingly simple and easy to do -- just rack another node, add it to the cluster then walk away -- in short time it's a fully functioning member of the cluster sharing the load.
- HC3 Cloud Unity with Google Cloud Platform is an unmatched hybrid cloud solution. Usually hybrid Clouds require lots of very sophisticated networking to tie the local network to the cloud network -- Unity does all of this automatically and transparently -- the Cloud instance looks like it's on your local LAN. A single Scale HC3 web interface can manage your local and remote on-prem instances together with your cloud instance.
- Scheduling of snapshots is fairly flexible but a little restricted when combined with Replication. Looking forward to the next major firmware release where this is scheduled to be improved.
- There is a single-node server available for remote offices but it would be nice to have a two-node version for those small offices to be able to avoid all down time (for updates).
January 19, 2018
Scale helped consolidate our network needs into one solution
We are using Scale HC3 as a 3 in 1 solution. We use the Scale virtualization software for our servers, including a VDI server. We utilize a 16TB SAN for all of our Virtual servers, user files, etc. Finally, we use a 2nd Scale cluster at our 2nd location as a Disaster Recovery solution between sites.
- Disaster Recovery using snapshots. Easy clones and restores.
- Virtualization of servers is seamless and very intuitive.
- San is provisioned internally by HC3 eliminating dead and wasted space.
- Control panel is intuitive and easy to use
- Would like to see ability to expand partitions without Scale Support.
- Would like to be able to have restores to folder or file level
January 17, 2018
Net Admin
We're converting our XenServer Virtual Infrastructure over to HC3 Scale. It's faster, easier to use and takes up less space. Setting up SCALE was easy. We rack mounted it, set it up in about 20 minutes. Since purchasing our first 3 servers, we recently just cut a PO to expand to 8. Overall, it's a great product.
- Its simplicity is a load off my shoulders. There are not hours of forums I have to sift through.
- No more licensing problems.
- Remote support is a super easy.
- I would like to see more information about my VMs
- Historical Data would be nice such as 30 day chart for CPU usage.
January 16, 2018
Good for simple deployments.
It is being used across an entire physical location, around 100 people. It hosts the core virtual machine infrastructure, which is 100% Windows.
- Simple
- Good Support
- V2V is a complete nightmare. We ended up just giving up. This is half the reason we don't recommend Scale any longer.
- Backups are a pain. VEEAM spoils you. With Scale you have to manage each endpoint at its layer. Frustrating, and the other half of the reason we don't recommend Scale.
January 15, 2018
Scale Support Nightmare
Whole Organization.
Upgrade of physical servers
Upgrade of physical servers
- virtualization
- ease of use
- ease of configuration
- Sales team should not undersell to sell again at a higher price
- Lot of improvement is required in support
- Lot of improvement needed in installation support
- Quotes not provided to months
- No information provided once order is placed
- Delivery too slow - awaiting hardware for last approx. 2 months
January 15, 2018
Scale Computing - A+ on cost and function.
It is the backbone of our network. We use it for our ERP and we have Scale at our DR site that we replicate to and can spin up servers in that environment in the case of a disaster. We also have most of our file sharing on the Scale hardware.
- Snapshots and replication
- Ease of configuration and use
- Cloning of new servers
- Support
- Cannot run Windows 2003 Servers
- Cannot run 1 of our ShoreTel servers for conferencing
January 15, 2018
Scale - what others are weighed against!
Most of our environment is virtualized - all on Scale. The performance and ROI have been phenomenal!
Their support shines above all vendors that I have dealt with over 25 years. Their system monitoring is proactive and they fix problems before they are even apparent.
Scale is considered a key vendor in our infrastructure.
- Ease of configuration. Spin up a new server with ease.
- Stability - rarely even have to think about this environment.
- ROI - the Scale environment let us get into virtualization for a very cost effective value.
- Lower cost on the SSD solution. But then don't we always want the latest for less.
January 15, 2018
Scale Computing HC3 Review
For our company, we running most of our application servers on our Scale HC3. Most of the servers were migrated from VMware and the rest of them were virtualized from physical servers.
- High Stability
- Super easy to manage VMs
- Automatic failover when node fails
- I wish they could have more log features, for example, graphical statistics for hardware usage over time.
- Overall, the Scale HC3 is preforming really well for us.
January 15, 2018
Scale HC3 Review
We use Scale to virtualize 50 servers across the whole organization.
- Easy to manage and stand up machines
- Easy to migrate machines from one node to another
- No VMware costs
- Additional networking ability
January 12, 2018
Scale
We are using Scale to move past our VMware and iSCSI connections.
- Support is great
- Software industry standard
- Fast
- Network drivers crash often,
- Need backup API to Veeam, badly. Backup is like a step back in time, and no, snapshots are not backups.
January 11, 2018
Solid option for SMBs who don't want to spend their time administering virtual environments.
We use a Scale cluster as our primary computing infrastructure, hosting SQL, ERP, WMS, RDS Cluster, file storage, IIS, and some other minor server VMs. All our VMs are currently MS OSs.
- Ease of setup and operation. We have a very small IT bench, and these individuals are not virtual infrastructure engineers. They have little to no experience in VM environments. Yet they have no problems standing up VMs, setting up or modifying replication, cloning, shifting VMs to other nodes, etc. They can modify resource draw easily (with one notable exception) and generally can stay out of the VM management world and stay in the server and application management worlds.
- Hardware support. I can only recall one hardware issue we had. Rather than going back and forth, or trying to fix one part at a time to reduce costing, Scale had a new box to us I think the next day or the day after. Hard drive swap and we were back in business at 100%.
- Tecahnical support. There are some minor headaches working outside of the normal hypervisor realms of Hyper-V/VMWare. But Scale support has been there to help us whenever we hit one of those stumbling blocks.
- Modifying the size of an instantiated virtual hard drive. You can change memory/cpus core with a few mouse clicks, but hard drive size increases are time consuming, complicated, and annoying in the current environment.
- There is some room for improvement with regards to SQL writes. The hyperconverged solution is exceptional in durability and reliability, but large quantity small size SQL writes seem to cause a speed bottleneck larger than one would expect given the power of the architecture. Could be caused by spanning between nodes?
- Not sure if this is a Scale issue or an MS issue, but we have never been able to clone an RD server with all apps installed and add it to the RDS cluster; we have to clone a barebones server, install everything and build all the printer connections, and then add it to the cluster.
January 11, 2018
Scale Computing HC3
We use the Scale HC3 platform at our corporate office to host the majority of our virtual machines. We are using it to host many different platforms and applications, such as application servers, file servers, vehicle routing and dispatching software, SharePoint, SQL, terminal servers, utility servers, domain controllers, and VOIP. It hosts both locally accessed applications and remotely accessed applications within the organization. The HC3 platform allows simple and efficient hosting and management of several virtual machines. The platform also provides high availability and disaster recovery.
- Disaster recovery/high availability. Useful and essential for data protection and application availability.
- Ease of use/management. Simple and easy to use and manage virtual machines.
- High performance. The HC3 platform provides exceptional computing resources.
- More information
- More statistics
- Ability to download media (ISOs) stored on cluster
January 10, 2018
Scale saved me from a VMware upgrade nightmare!
We moved our entire VMware environment onto HC3. We use it to run our Windows servers. We are about to spin up our DR site as well. All of our Active Directory servers, FileCloud server, print servers, QuickBooks run on it. We will also be using it to replace Splashtop for users logging in remotely.
- HC3 is easy to set up.
- The administration is so simple that you can give admin to less experienced employees.
- The VMs are very fast!
- The interface needs more color.
- Integrate the Doubletake software into the system.
- Cloud replication?
January 10, 2018
Review of our Scale HC3 system
We use the Scale Computing HC3 platform across our whole organization. With its ease of use, we are able to obtain 99.9% uptime as well as a full DR site with 100% of our data. It solves the need by not requiring complicated switching equipment, advanced networks, etc. All of the systems are essentially self-contained and require near 0 maintenance.
- DR - Scale does DR really well. With a few clicks, you can have a (or more) multiple DR sites.
- Ease of use - The system is extremely easy to use through it's GUI. With a few clicks, you're able to spin a VM up and have it set up snapshots and replication to other sites.
- Ability to share or use dynamic memory.