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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…
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HE151
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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 - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
SC//Platform Success Story - American Foundry Group
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 |
Scale Computing Platform Downloadables
- 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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October 23, 2020
Great Solution for a Small College
- Reports of VM problems.
- Doesn't use Adobe Flash for their management counsel.
- Spinning up a new VM could not be easier.
- Converting VM from vSphere to Scale can be a hassle.
- When selling half rack servers, send Lenovos half rack server rails with it or at least give that as an option for the purchaser.
October 21, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 allows IT to reclaim time!
- Simplicity is the number one priority for us. It's very simple to spin up a virtual machine and have it up and running quickly.
- Customer support has been fantastic. When we have an issue, usually Scale contacts us before we even realize there is some sort of issue going on.
- Setting up and installation has also been very simple. In the past, we tried traditional 3-2-1 virtual infrastructure but having storage, networking, and compute tied together has made it much easier for our IT department to be able to deploy new items in a timely manner.
- There are times when the alerts can be a little vague if you don't contact customer support to get a clarification of what might be wrong.
- I would like to see some integrated backup support at some time, and not have to use a third-party agent on each virtual machine.
- Cost reduction for virtualized workloads.
- Consolidates storage and networking.
- Simplifies management of virtual servers.
- Efficient backup and disaster recovery.
- The management interface could provide more granular configuration options.
- Monitoring and alerting for replication and snapshots needs improvement.
- Need easier quoting capabilities for partners.
- Scale has reduced the amount of time we spend maintaining host servers.
- The management interface is simple.
- We like to be able to seamlessly move servers with very little overhead.
- The solution lacks support from major backup providers.
- While it is simple to use, sometimes it would be good to have more powerful tools.
- Tools should be included to migrate between virtualization solutions. While tools are available, they are at extra cost per virtual machine.
October 15, 2020
SCALE is awesome!
- No yearly license fees.
- Easy migration.
- Cost savings over 3+ years.
- Working with our Unitrends, was told this was on the radar.
- Superior Support - US based, easy to understand, quick to respond.
- All inclusive package when purchased.
- The Scale interface doesn't seem to have as many options as VMware. Of course I don't use most of these options, but some admin desiring very detailed configs may be disappointed.
- I would like to see a more granular restore. It's easy to restore full snapshots, but we also use this for a file server, and it's very time consuming to restore just a couple files.
October 15, 2020
Scale
- Management.
- Redundancy.
- Easy setup.
- Two Factor in the management console.
- Moving from another VM system could be easier.
October 07, 2020
A partner perspective
- Business resiliency through high-availability of computing resources.
- Simplicity of system configuration, monitoring, and management.
- Exceptional customer support.
- Virtual Machine start up control.
- Virtual disk encryption using TPM.
- Compute resource guarantees to VMs for performance.
- High availability is native, automatic, and requires no configuration.
- Support provided by Scale Computing is top notch. I rarely contact them and when I do the phone calls last less than 10min with resolution and in the case of email support not only is there a quick response but they follow up to make sure everything is going well.
- Scale’s HC3 product line removes all of the complex aspects of configuring storage and compute that exist in products like Citrix and VMWare at a much higher value. I don’t need engineers on staff to maintain it because it can be truly a set it and forget it configuration. This makes it a much more valuable option for small to midsize company and for large enterprises offers an enormous savings that can’t be ignored.
- For me personally I’d like to learn more about the API call functionality to increase the hands off options an IT support team could have. (This is more just needing to learn the API’s.)
- More features in virtual networking perhaps a virtual switching within the system as an option.
- Hardware trade-in and upgrade path. (This may exist but just something that is starting to be a consideration for us.)
October 07, 2020
Fast, Easy, Supported
- Amazing support. Seriously, a skilled team of technicians on the back end that are there to help and aren't reading from a script.
- Easy GUI and interface.
- Easy setup.
- Extremely fast restoration of backups. Minutes not hours.
- Ability to delete multiple snapshots at once.
- Provide more detail as to where vmdk files are stored on drives.
October 02, 2020
Scale can take the weight of your business needs
- Very easy to use; does not require specialized training.
- The Disaster Recovery offering (Cloud Unity) works seamlessly.
- Great customer service.
- I would like to see continued integration with Microsoft-based networks/systems.
- I would like to see a more comprehensive interface.
- I would like to see the ability to create/publish reports and/or export system logs.
- I would like to see independent file-level restore, in addition to volume-level restore.
- I would like to see better/easier volume identification when cloning volumes and mounting to other VMs.
October 02, 2020
Scale Computing, Simple, Cost Effective, Reliable
- Lowering cost on virtual licensing.
- Ease of use.
- Above average support.
- Being able to export virtual machines back into VMware without a 3rd party product.
- The interface should include how much hard drive space is being utilized in a windows environment without having to log into the server.
- Increase integration into other platforms such as agentless backup solutions. One is in the works with Acronis, but having multiple options would be preferred.
October 02, 2020
Simply can't beat it!
- Easy to learn and use user interface.
- Personal one-on-one walk-through hardware installation.
- Very personal training for our organization (which included recording for review later if we missed or forgot something) with a Scale expert.
- Ability to use the USB storage devices (for transfer of large quantity of files on USB devices).
- Ability to use multiple networks (such as a machine that needs access to the LAN and public internet using two different network cards).
October 02, 2020
Our first HCI system
- Spin up new VM's.
- Easy of use.
- Allows for grouping of VM's.
- Natively support NLB.
- Native support for Veeam/Zerto.
- Allow for different types of snapshots (eg. application consistent for SQL).
June 03, 2020
Skip the rest, join the best, do it for less!
- Live migration.
- Simplifies management of VMs.
- Dense storage with great resiliency.
- Dense storage with optional hybrid caching or full SSD.
- Simple, worry-free upgrades.
- In-depth monitoring and control of the VM host/cluster.
- Single pane of glass management (not in public cloud, i.e. not the upcoming edge service).
- In-depth configuration and monitoring of vmhost for security and other aspects.
May 29, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 Review
- Resource monitoring (Excellent GUI)
- Easy to install new instance of virtual machine
- Dynamic disk allocation
- Ability to have real-time replication with easy configuration steps
- Cluster connection directly from one server to another without another piece of equipment
- Better support for GPU offloading
May 22, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 Review
- Hosts virtual machines with excellent performance
- Creates snapshots easily
- Creates duplicate VMs quickly and easily
- Provides a clean, easy-to-use interface
- UI customizability, especially for large screens
- Unity DR is "fickle" regarding bandwidth and latency
- Unity default DR disk space is a little low
February 11, 2020
Scale Computing - Magnificent
- It has the best platform for virtual server management.
- Upgrading memory and disk space was a breeze.
- Customer support is fantastic.
- The setup is still a bit new to some people, so offsite data centers are a bit unfamiliar with it.
October 05, 2019
Simple and high performing solution
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Incredibly simple deployment and cloning of VM's. Makes managing a very high-tech architecture simple.
- Auto negotiates SSD disk usage based on requirements and prioritization, maximizing utilization of the faster I/O for disks that need it.
- Customer Service is great. I think everyone says this (and it was preached to us before and during the sales process) but they really have been great.
- Simple, simple, simple. We kept asking ourselves "Is it really this easy". Some people need more advanced and complicated feature sets, but for us "simplicity that performs at a high level" is very important for our small IT dept. Managing is a 30mins per week job vs 20 hrs.
- Offsite backup configuration options are lacking. There is room for improvement here. Full replication to another HC3 is easy, but customized snapshot and full VM export is lacking. We are confident this will be addressed.
April 04, 2019
Scale Computing - Hyper-Convergence
- Scale offers a great dashboard for viewing VM details.
- Installation of clusters is much simpler than other VM platforms.
- Console view of VMs is in web browser and clientless, which makes administration from any machine simpler.
- I would like to see the ability to mount snapshot points in time rather than having to clone a full machine in order to access older data. I believe this is being released in the latest version, but we had a difficult time restoring data without creating a Linux machine and mounting a disk.
- Import and export of VMs isn't as easy as other platforms. Third party tools had to be used to import VMs. Exporting VMs would require the same time and expense.
- I would like to see more access to back end disk data rather than relying on support. I know Scale is targeted to shops with smaller IT departments and the support is great, but I had to go through support in order to get a disk list on the cluster when I could have just done that myself.
March 30, 2019
Scale Computing, the right systems for the right time.
- Redundancy
- Simple interface
- 24/7/365 support (onshore)
- Relatively inexpensive compared to VMware/SAN solutions.
- Needs a much more robust multi-site management suite
- Hardware choices need to be expanded. I know they are working on this actively.
- More detailed backup instructions. The interface is too simple.
- Redundancy
- Maximum uptime
- Scalability
- Dependability
- Multiple Remote connections options for the same virtual machine
- Online storage of snapshots for DR purposes
- Allow higher speed transfer of snapshots between remote connections
March 29, 2019
Big Impact on a Small Organization - Scale Computer HC3
- The ability to duplicate a server or spin up a server from an existing snapshot within minutes has saved our organization and the IT department countless hours when we have had a server failure. Simply starting up a snapshot, most users do not even realize there has been an issue and it makes support seamless.
- Updating is a breeze, you are notified when there is an issue and you follow the directions. The downtime is limited and it doesn't take hours to complete.
- Customer support is top notch!
- I am very happy with the product. I wish I could tell you I had cons, but I truly don't. I am very happy with the product, its ease of deployment and the overall experience. I would purchase again.
March 29, 2019
HC3 - Truly a breath of fresh air.
- The world's simplest host and storage administration, period.
- Built-in site-to-site replication for one-click DR.
- Excellent performance, easily surpassing the "big guys" -- more cost-conscious hardware solutions get the job done just as well, if not better, than top-tier systems using much more expensive hardware.
- A support experience that cannot be rivaled. Just open a trouble ticket and see for yourself!
- At-rest encryption currently requires a 3rd-party product.
- Would really benefit from a user interface or wizard for creating boot media/migrating common hosts to HC3 (maybe options for physical, Hyper-V, VMWare).
March 29, 2019
Hidden Gem For Education CTOs
- Customer Support - A level of service that all vendors should strive to reach. Their customer service is equally fast and reliable as the product. In the two years of having the HC3, we experienced one hard drive failure. The support team was assisting us within minutes, had the drive replaced in less than 24 hours, and had our node fully functional with no disruption in service nor any data loss.
- Migration - One of the quickest and easiest among all VM solutions. Older Windows operating systems had compatibility issues, but all servers running Windows Server 2003 and higher migrated within minutes with two simply clicks.
- Reliability - The HC3 manages to work seamlessly in real-time with no indication from the end user during maintenance, recovery, or making changes to the VMs. In two years, we have had only one hard drive issue and no software issues.
- Simplicity - The HC3 has the best of both worlds. It's simpler than the free Hyper-V and includes most tools one needs within VMware, yet the installation, operation, and recovery is leaps and bounds easier to manipulate.
- The only negative is the maintenance support costs. What a dilemma Scale has as they produced a robust and reliable product yet the support costs for a 3 node system is almost $6000. After paying this for 2 years and only having one hard drive failure, I have spent $12,000 on one support ticket and three software updates. It defeats the maintenance cost savings.