More Scale Please
September 24, 2018
More Scale Please
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Scale Computing HC3
We currently use Scale Computing at our headquarters to host roughly 25 servers that range from application servers to file servers to domain controllers. Scale gave us simplicity to manage our infrastructure. It's also saving us on the bottom line.
- The replication of VMs betweens nodes is incredibly fast. We can recover servers from snapshots very quickly.
- We are saving on VMWare costs by not having to renew licenses for VMWare.
- With Scale's next update, we'll have the capability to do file level restoration.
- When migrating to Scale, it seemed like we we're basically 'tricking' the virtual machine into being a Scale file. So the ability to more easily migrate to Scale would be recommended.
- As of right now, to restore a file, we basically restore an entire VM from a snapshot rather than restoring just that file.
- A lesser option should be available for smaller offices that only have 2 virtual servers.
We currently run all of our domain environment in Scale and several application servers. It's mostly file sharing and print services. We haven't noticed any decline in performance since moving to Scale.
- We're saving $15k per year alone in just hardware support costs
- We're saving even more by no longer needing VMWare.
- Upgrading Scale takes a lot less man hours than upgrading VMWare.
- Nimble, HPE Proliant ML and VMware ESXi
We have one system now rather than 3. We're able to do everything we need to from one management screen