I love our Scale
February 02, 2018

I love our Scale

Darren Woolston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Scale Computing HC3

[It's being used] To host most corporate servers including AD, file, print, CCTV and app servers.
  • Ease of use
  • Superb value compared to traditional competitors
  • The time between order and delivery seems slow.
Good pre-sale support. We had excellent initial setup support. It's a good knowledge base, but I've have seen better. Implementation of Server 2016 was a bit slow though.
We currently host:
- Active Directory
- File Servers
- Print Servers
- Security Camera system & storage
- Stadium concession systems (critical game-day system)
- Stadium 50-50 system (critical game-day system). Our 50-50's are a huge deal in this part of the world.
  • Hewlett Packard
Impressive greater value for similar sized system
If you need to consolidate 4 or more servers, I don't know of a better way to do it currently. We currently have 10 VMs and I would dread doing it the old-fashioned way now. VMWare and its ilk seem clunky and overbearing in comparison now.

User Experience with Scale Computing

General ease of use.

Using Scale Computing HC3

The whole business in one way or another.
2 - IT - Virtual system experience helps, but I wouldn't say its necessary.
  • Active Directory
  • File & Print services
  • Security Camera system & data storage
  • Stadium Concession system
  • Satdium 50-50 draw system
  • We are currently testing a new Windows 2016 domain setup
  • I hope to one day host the Football Operations Video services on the same system. Football Coaches use a dedicated system currently.
Great value, and ease of use.

Using Scale Computing HC3

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
None
  • Creating a new VM
  • Adding OS Media
  • Creating VM snapshots
  • I wish I could change the size of disk volumes easily.