Scale Computing Platform is renowned for swift setup, stability, and performance. It provides a seamless user experience with integrated licenses and efficient management, catering to small IT departments.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Scale Computing Platform | 2.7% |
| VxRail | 10.4% |
| Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) | 9.1% |
| Other | 77.8% |
Users have reported significant returns on investment with the Scale Computing Platform. Many highlight its cost-effectiveness, pointing to the reduction in operational costs and the savings on infrastructure investments as key benefits. They also note improvements in efficiency and productivity, with the platform’s simplified management and ease of use allowing for less time spent on routine maintenance and more on strategic initiatives. Additionally, the reliability and robustness of the platform are often praised for minimizing downtime and associated costs. Overall, the consensus among users is that the Scale Computing Platform offers a valuable and positive impact on their financial and operational performance.
Scale Computing Platform offers a user-friendly GUI and delivers superior performance with exceptional read/write speeds, outperforming competitors like Nutanix. It eliminates the need for additional recovery software and simplifies licensing. Users note its simplicity and efficiency over VMware, Nutanix, and HPE SimpliVity. However, there is a need for improved support, better upgrade processes, and more integration with external backup services. The platform faces challenges with larger workloads, with snapshot technology requiring optimization. Enhancements are needed in dashboard usability and node visibility, and users seek flexibility for on-the-fly changes.
What are the key features of Scale Computing Platform?Implementing Scale Computing Platform in industries supports virtualization needs for organizations operating with fewer than thirty VMs. It's commonly used for hosting internal servers, executing POCs, and running applications like SAGE Computer and QuickBooks. The platform aids businesses in creating private clouds, supporting efficient resource management and enhancing server operations, particularly with Acronis Backup.
Scale Computing Platform was previously known as Scale Computing HC3.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees | 5.0 | Scale Computing Platform offers an easy-to-manage solution for small IT departments, allowing quick VM creation and prioritization of servers, though navigating its graphical interface to identify server-node connections could be streamlined for better clarity. |
| Channel Sales Manager at Softech Microsystems | 4.5 | I use Scale Computing Platform for virtualization in my company. Its simplicity, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness stand out compared to VMware or Nutanix. Although it lacks on-the-fly adjustments, it's not a significant drawback for us. |
| Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees | 4.5 | I run all our VMs on Scale Computing Platform and appreciate its streamlined features. However, I believe the control center could be improved for enhanced management. We use Acronis Backup and have not considered alternate solutions or cloud providers. |
| Chief Technology Officer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees | 3.0 | I use Scale Computing Platform to create our own cloud and virtualization, and I appreciate its user-friendly GUI. However, the solution requires improvement in snapshot technology, performance visibility, and replication, as it occupies more space and lacks critical technical data. |
| President at Claro | 4.5 | I find Scale Computing HC3 stable and highly valuable because service continues seamlessly even if a device fails, preventing delays and complex recovery. It's safer and better than traditional servers, with good support. I recommend it, but wish for backup service integration. |
| Chief Technology Officer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees | 4.0 | I find Scale HC3 stable, fast, and scalable with great, responsive US-based support, outperforming Nutanix in some areas. However, replication functionality needs significant improvement. I rate it an 8/10. |
| IT Director at a renewables & environment company with 201-500 employees | 3.5 | I found setup straightforward and stability excellent, but experienced major issues with sales forcing new hardware over upgrades. Scalability is expensive and inflexible, and backup options are subpar, though technical support quality varies. |
| Technical Presales at CLM Software | 4.5 | I find Scale Computing HC3 highly stable and easy to set up, using it for internal servers and customer POCs. The support is excellent. My main wish is for clusters larger than eight nodes, but I still rate it 9/10. |
| Senior Inside Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees | 3.5 | I recommend this solution for small businesses with under thirty VMs, valuing its built-in features and stability. It struggles with larger workloads and lacks backup, which I hope is addressed. I rate it seven out of ten. |
It provides a dashboard. You can adjust the signature of the drives to prioritize certain servers over others.
It gives the ease of management for a small IT department.
There could be an easier way to see which servers are on each node. It shows you a small graphical interface, but you have to see them all, and you have to really struggle to figure out which nodes are on which interface.
I have been using Scale Computing HC3 for three years.
We haven't had any issues. Stability has been great for the last three years.
We've already had to add another node, and adding nodes to scale was simple.
Support is great.
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The initial setup is straightforward. It took less than a week to get all the servers we needed to move over. A server engineer did it.
I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.
Whenever we need to create a new VM, it only takes a few minutes. I can quickly spin up a new VM from a template, making the process highly efficient.
It fit our budget, so it was great.
Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten because it is stable and very easy to use.
I use the solution in my company for virtualization. If you want to create virtual machines in your organization rather than put physical servers in, opt for HCI solutions the right way.
The solution's most valuable features stem from its simplicity, ease of use, and efficiency, especially when compared to tools like VMware, Nutanix, HPE SimpliVity, or other products. Scale Computing HC3 is very simple, easy to use, and not very labor-intensive. There are no licensing requirements. The tool's deployment is very easy. Overall, the tool is more efficient and cost-effective than the other tools.
Some features go well with other tools like VMware, where making something on the fly or making some changes on the fly in the area of memory or something is possible. On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area. Being able to make some changes on the fly is very risky, but even then, you see customers saying since it is an area that is not possible with Scale Computing HC3, it is better to go with some other tools. My company convinces our customers that opting for another solution is not required since a tool that allows us to make some changes on the fly can be very risky, and it is also not something that fits in according to certain policies or good practices.
I have been using Scale Computing HC3 for two years. My company operates as a distributor for Scale Computing HC3.
It is a stable product. You can choose a minimum of three nodes and three servers so that at any point in time, if one of them goes down, there are two others that are left, and in the meantime, you can fix the one that is down. The tool is always available and highly dependable. With Scale Computing HC3, you can have your own DR site as well, making it a totally perfect tool. Your system, your solution, and your operations will never go down with Scale Computing HC3.
It is a highly scalable solution, especially when it comes to its own line of products.
My company deals with a number of customers, and there are also some potential customers in the pipeline. Pakistan is a developing country, so my company caters to less than ten customers.
I have contacted the solution's technical support team, and I found them to be very prompt in their responses. You can even verify the reports associated with Gartner to see how the product has the highest rating when it comes to technical support.
The product's initial setup phase is too easy.
The product is deployed on the cloud and on an on-premises model.
With other tools like VMware, Dell, or HP, customers spend weeks or maybe fifteen days to a month, and the deployment process continues. With Scale Computing HC3, the deployment process can be completed in around one to three hours.
The product is worth the money, but I would not say it's very cheap or very expensive. Considering the value and budget, I feel that it is a very suitable product, especially if you have virtualization requirements.
The product is so easy to use that it is just like buying a toy and starting to operate it directly. It is a very simple tool to use, and you don't need to indulge in any preparations.
I recommend the product to others, especially since it can be considered a futuristic solution.
For beginners, the product is very easy to learn and use.
I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need.
The product could use a better control center. The dashboard gives you a lot of control, but it could still give you a little more.
I have been working with Scale Computing for a couple of years.
I rate the stability a nine out of ten.
HC3's scalability is good. I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.
I have had to call tech support several times and I am overall pleased with them.
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I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten. When we deployed the solution, I think it took maybe two days. We had everything up and running, and all our servers moved over. There were two of us deploying the solution. We had a server engineer and myself. I'm maintaining the solution because we just need one network engineer to do that.
Scale Computing HC3 is less expensive than other products. I rate HC3's pricing a five out of ten since it is affordable.
I rate Scale Computing HC3 a nine out of ten. I like the dashboard's functionality. It could use a few more options, but it's easy to use.
The primary use case is to create our own cloud and virtualization out of the cloud.
The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI. The solution has a lot of user-friendly features.
The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions. The snapshots are working on the byte level and not the bit level.
The solution has three detriments, there is no performance, we can't see how much CPU each node is using, and we have no technical data on anything that happened on the server. Additionally, replication is also lacking and does not work well, partially to the fact of the snapshot technology.
I have been using the solution for a year and a half.
The solution is stable. I give the stability a nine out of ten.
I give the scalability a six out of ten.
Scale Computing HC3 has limitations because it can only support eight nodes per cluster. If we need to do more, we have to add more clusters. Nutanix, on the other hand, can grow very large.
The setup is very good. The solution is very easy to use. The deployment takes less than one day and only requires one person.
I give the pricing a nine out of ten.
I give the solution a six out of ten.
We have three administrators managing the solution.
New users should be aware of the snapshot and replication problems.
We have over 2000 people that are supported by the solution.
Scale Computing HC3 is used by customers to install their software, such as SAGE Computer, Time Clock solutions, and QuickBooks. It's similar to a normal server with Windows and all the users have access. For example, you install a Windows server, and from then on it works the same as any server in the market.
The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier.
Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial.
I have been using Scale Computing HC3 for approximately one year.
Scale Computing HC3 has been stable.
The scalability of Scale Computing HC3 has been good.
We have approximately seven people using the solution in my company.
The support from Scale Computing HC3 has been good. However, I do not need to contact them often because once the server is running it is operating independently and does not need support.
I pay for Scale Computing HC3 and it includes customer service for one year. We paid for an additional year for customer service but that includes the updates and everything for the software. Additionally, the licensing is for Windows, which is the same for everybody.
I would advise others they should use this solution instead of traditional servers because it's safer, and better for the company. You don't have to rely on complicated setups, if one of the parts goes down, it keeps working. This aspect is the best for companies that don't want to waste time.
Scale Computing HC3 should improve its marketing.
I rate Scale Computing HC3 a nine out of ten.
Technical support is great.
Scale shows you the network switches already configured, which is better than Nutanix, where you really have to have someone who is doing the networking properly and double-checking all your network configurations within Nutanix.
The solution is scalable.
The stability is excellent.
The solution is fast. For example, Nutanix reads and writes are slower than Scale.
Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication. It's the Holy Trinity of snapshot, replication, and bandwidth monitoring. All three must be aligned.
I've dealt with the solution for six months or so at this point. It hasn't been that long. I've used it for less than a year.
The solution is quite stable. It's rock solid. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. it's quite reliable.
The scalability is very good. If you need to expand it, you can.
In Scale, with scaling, there's a different way of scaling in Scale than in Nutanix. With Nutanix if you were going to be doing new mass amounts of machines, meaning you were going to do 1,000 machines, 2000 machines, I would not recommend Scale. Scale limits the cluster nodes to eight nodes. You literally have to put on servers and you have to balance your servers off on the system.
While Nutanix support is good, Scale tech support responds faster and acts faster. We are quite satisfied with them overall.
Scale support is 100% American-based, which is great in terms of language and time zones.
I have both Nutanix and Scale, which are two competitors. Scale does some things better than Nutanix. Nutanix does some things better than Scale. That's why we use both.
I have a staff of two. I have three others on my staff right now that currently know the system. They might only deal with it half an hour a week. The maintenance is minimal. It's pretty self-repairing.
It literally takes maybe two hours to get them fully acquainted with either system. Nutanix is harder to restore. The problem with Nutanix is when you want to restore data and you only want to restore selected data, much more tedious. Where Scale, it's a simple GUI and takes seconds.
I would rate Scale at an eight out of ten.
Scale has major improvements that they need to fix up. However, it is pretty good in terms of capability and scalability.
We were running Dynamics AX, so my environment had 12 VMs. We had one or two 2012 Windows servers and I had two 2012 SQL servers, and an R2 as well.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward.
The stability is very good.
I've had so many issues with support.
I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node.
For example, we would have three cluster nodes, and I was trying to figure out a way to have one more terabytes of space. Instead of letting me do some sort of higher performance, I ended up buying another three nodes, and after I bought those three nodes, then I was stuck with the six nodes, and I migrated everything to the new nodes, and after all that, they did not let me upgrade the hard drives.
The sales department told me "you can just add another cluster. We'll move everything to the other clusters, then you can replace the hard drives." When I did everything, then they came back and they said, "Oh, no. It was a mistake. We did not authorize this. You have to change the hard drives."
It would be great if we had the ability to attach external sends and use another vendor send. We should not just have to buy scale nodes. On top of that, we need the capability to do full back up and exports to those external stores.
The backup solution is sub-par. They make you back up inside the cluster. I would like to have a backup in another environment and scale with the other HCI solution. They just want you to do backups between their environments, which makes no sense nowadays, when we have everything going to the cloud. I don't need to back it up inside the cluster.
I've been using the solution for three and a half years.
The stability is very good. I have no complaints there. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
The solution is pretty scalable so long as you are willing to buy new equipment every time. It can get expensive and frustrating. The biggest gap for scaling is not letting you use external sends. That is the biggest gap. If they don't let you do that, you will always need to buy expensive nodes. They don't sell the nodes for a cheap price.
In the company, in general, we have about under 100 users. There are around 3,000 employees at the company overall. Everybody has been pulling data from our server. I know our manager loves to scale, so we need something that can scale when we need it to.
We had issues with sales support. They told us how to do something one way, then told us something else once we bought the technology. I don't trust them. I'm completely unhappy with their level of service.
In terms of technical support, I've had the opportunity to work with a couple of technicians that were really good and that really know HC3. That said, I sometimes called the help desk, and I got people that really don't know anything about the solution or about Linux (which the solution runs through). Overall, I'd rate the solution six and a half out of ten. The support really isn't balanced. It can be great or awful.
I've been in IT for 20 years. Therefore, for me, the initial setup wasn't too complex. It was pretty straightforward. I can't speak to how easy it would be for everybody, however.
If you need to scale, you need to buy more nodes, and those are not cheap at all. They are very expensive.
We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with the client.
I'm not sure which version of the solution we use, however, it has been fully updated.
All our servers were co-hosted in another location, and I decided to bring everything on-premise due to our need to have the best performance.
They need to change that mentality that they just want to sell the box. It is what it is, that they don't allow us to do upgrades. I think this mentality is like an Apple mentality where you have to buy whatever you want at the beginning and you cannot change, and nowadays, everything is so interchangeable. We need to be able to adapt it to whatever we need. That said, this product and its salespeople are not flexible.
I'd advise others to make sure you buy as fast and as big as possible at the beginning. You won't have many opportunities to do upgrades in the box that you have. For example, if you need 64 GIGs of RAM, buy 128 - at least double. Don't get it back to the wall where you don't have an option to increase.
I would rate the solution seven out of ten.
We use HC3 for our internal servers and POCs for customers to test the solution before buying.
I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes.
I've been using HC3 for six months.
Scale Computing HC3 is highly stable.
Scale Computing HC3 is scalable up to eight nodes. That's something that could be improved.
I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive.
It's straightforward to set up Scale Computing HC3.
I rate Scale Computing HC3 a nine out of 10. My advice is to focus on data center and CSTV workloads.
My primary use is for small-end businesses with fewer than thirty VMs.
The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in.
The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added.
Our company has been working with this solution for ten to fifteen years.
This is a pretty stable product - you set it up, and it works pretty decently.
Scaling for this solution works on a nodal basis.
I haven't heard of any issues with tech support.
My impression is that the setup is fairly simple.
I would rate this solution as seven out of ten.
