Item: Scale Computing Platform
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Scale Computing HC3

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It was used at our main datacenter to replace the traditional three-tier outdated architecture. All of our mission critical applications reside on the HC3 system.

We also are using the DR HC3 system at a remote site and have replication enabled for our critical VM's.

It addresses the issue of redundancy, performance and TOC.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Spin up new VM's.
Easy of use.
Allows for grouping of VM's.

Cons

Natively support NLB.
Native support for Veeam/Zerto.
Allow for different types of snapshots (eg. application consistent for SQL).

Support Rating

90% of the time I called support they are very helpful and will handle the issue cradle to grave. They were very responsive.
During implementation I would suggest to raise issues through your project manager vs direct to support as they have more intimate knowledge of your system and can guide you better through the issue.

Return on Investment

Less technical knowledge staff have the ability to admin the system.
Set up once and leave it.
More time to do other IT tasks.

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix AOS and Dell EMC VxRail

Ease of use and TOC.
We needed to go with something simple as our environment is not complex.
The members of the IT team are lower level from a technical standpoint and can easily administer the system.
The GUI is web based so allows us to access the system remotely.
One step upgrades available with no downtime.

Likelihood to Recommend

Small to medium sized organizations where the functionality of Scale meets the business requirements.
TOC - as Scale was a more cost effective solution then the other bigger players.
No hypervisor licensing costs.
Lower technical level staff.

I would not go with Scale:
If a mission critical 24/7 hot DR requirement. Your IOPS requirements is greater then 10,000.

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