Item: Scale Computing Platform
Rating: 6
Author: Jamie Yennie

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

Support Rating

Support is very responsive and have solved all problems we have had with 1 hour

Apps Run

We run our terminal server which all company users use to access our accounting system and our ERP.

Return on Investment

No real positive or negative impact
No real positive or negative impact
No real positive or negative impact

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Clustering

Scale was much cheaper to implement.

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect for small business that needs high availability, but cannot afford traditional clustering technologies.

Scale Review

Overall Satisfaction with Scale Computing HC3