Scale review
December 12, 2017
Scale review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Scale Computing HC3
We use SCALE to host our production/test/dev environments across the organization - We are currently in a transition from physical servers to virtual, and have extremely limited resources to manage a virtual environment. We needed a solution that was flexible, affordable, and did not require a lot of dedicated resource commitment.
Pros
- Simplifies deployment of a resilient virtual platform with minimal dedicated resource commitment on our part.
- Excellent tech support.
- Very stable environment that recovers well from unexpected system glitches.
Cons
- Reverting to a previous snapshot is a bit convoluted, not as straightforward as in VMWare.
- Increase granularity of visibility into VM operations - they have been adding details to the main GUI, and are making progress, but still leaves a bit to be done as far as monitoring/managing individual VMs - overall system monitoring is good, but would be more useful if we could also drill down to individual BMs.
- Currently there are unexpected issues with changing networking after the system has been deployed (for example: we need to change our default gateway - same subnet, but a different IP, and under the current version, we are required to take the entire system down for that one small change. SCALE is working on a better modification policy and we are hopeful they can develop a different solution so we do not have to totally shut down the system).
- Has allowed affordable scalability for our on-going transition from physical servers to virtual.
Back in 2012-2013 we evaluated multiple products, but decided on SCALE because of the overall cost and flexibility of the system. SCALE provided a turn-key system that required minimal dedicated resource commitment from us, and has been a stable component in our environment for us ever since.
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