Scale Computing Platform Reviews & Product Details

Scale Computing™ was founded to fulfill an IT infrastructure need often hindered by the complexity, time, and resources that traditional virtualized IT environments demand. Today, Scale Computing delivers a platform solution for data center, edge computing, virtualization technology, and hyperconverged infrastructure to customers worldwide. Award-winning Scale Computing Platform™ edge computing solution eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. 1. Simplicity Engineered Eliminate mundane management tasks and save IT administrators valuable time. SC//Platform's simplicity directly impacts IT with higher productivity and lower costs. Using patented Scale Computing HyperCore™ virtualization suite technology, the self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects problems in the infrastructure in real time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. 2. Scalable Plan the perfect future by not predicting it. Simply mix and match old and new hardware and applications on the same infrastructure for a future-proof environment that can scale up or down as needed. The storage system avoids issues inherent in traditional network storage approaches (SAN and NAS). By embedding storage with the hypervisor, resources can be automatically pooled across an entire cluster, and new storage is automatically added when new nodes are introduced. 3. Secure SC//Platform is designed to be 'Secure by Default,' meaning security isn't an option—it's a fundamental component ingrained in every aspect of the system. This approach eliminates the need for extensive configuration or additional security layers post-deployment. Unlike alternative solutions that require a long and complex “security best practices” checklist, SC//Platform limits the potential for misconfiguration vulnerabilities. 4. Manageable Scale Computing Fleet Manager™ edge orchestration software combines centralized management with cloud and local automation, allowing infrastructure and applications to achieve and maintain the desired state throughout the entire life of the environment. Zero-touch provisioning decreases the time of installation by 90% or more Secure Link allows access to the HyperCore UI for in-depth cluster management with the click of a button without needing expensive or complex remote access solutions such as VPN or RDP Real-time monitoring of all workloads across a global fleet of SC//HyperCore clusters is made even easier with a searchable and customizable view 5. Cost-Effective Reduce IT infrastructure costs in almost every way. Hidden IT infrastructure costs associated with downtime, management, maintenance, training, and consulting are reduced to almost nothing. For more information: SC//Platform - https://www.scalecomputing.com/sc-platform SC//Fleet Manager - https://www.scalecomputing.com/sc-fleet-manager SC//HyperCore - https://www.scalecomputing.com/sc-hypercore

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Scale Computing Platform Demo - Scale Computing Fleet Manager

Manage your organization’s fleet of Clusters.

Scale Computing Platform Demo - Scale Computing Fleet Management Dashboard

At-a-glance summary of the health of your fleet upon login

Scale Computing Platform Demo - Cluster Details

Details of a particular cluster, including health, fleet manager connectivity, nodes, and VMs

Scale Computing Platform Demo - Hypercore UI

Simple Web Interface for Local Management of the Cluster and its Workloads

You might be perfectly satisfied with your VMware investment's price, management overhead, and reliability. If so, it's all good. Or you might be wondering if there is an alternative.

Taylor Leick, Senior Product Manager, demonstrates Scale Computing’s Fleet Manager, a robust tool managing over 14k systems with simplicity and scalability in mind, featuring single sign-on, role-based access control, and real-time data .

Reduce costs and data complexity with your current IT team through automation. Organizations are constantly battling with the demands of growth and doing more with less.

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Conrad W.

IT Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/17/2024

"A Virtualization System That's Easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I like how we don't have to deal with the constant update and configuration issues we had with EXSI. Support is available on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Sometimes it's hard to know what's going on "in the background". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/1/2024

"Excellent experience with Scale Computing"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Simple, easy to use platform for virtualization and hyperconvergence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Not deal killers by any means but is missing some features offered by the other players (hot add memory for example). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Juan F.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/7/2023

"Proper Private Cloud"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The Scale Computing Platform provides a solution for our needs for our core infrastructure. The platform is reliable, and as a full-service solution, the GUI provides a simple responsive platform to work with. Since early 2014, we have depended on the Scale Computing Platform to host our core infrastructure. Scale Computing has been able to support our growth. Additionally, we have leveraged their technical support, which has always been timely and outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Through the years, Scale Computing has been able to integrate many things that were missing. It is difficult to find anything to complain about with Scale Computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scale Computing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Scale Computing, our IT Services are able to be flexible with the needs of our employees and their requirements. We are able to stand up and/or tombstone servers or computing environments to support our applications. We are able to maintain our private cloud environment and support our needs quickly, whether we are changing server configurations that already exist or adding servers to support our needs. Our main need for Scale Computing is server virtualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonah F.

IT Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/22/2023

"SCALE provides peace-of-mind."

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The most helpful thing about SCALE Solutions is that I can get someone on the phone to help with any issues I may have with the system (even though they are far and few between). Also, the ease of implementation and the support you receive when setting up new hardware. They are with you each step of the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

I don't have anything bad to say about the the system and service. For our small IT office, it is the best fit. When there are only two IT personnel for close to 200 end users, you don't have a lot of time in between calls, so you need something that you can depend on, and people you can depend on. You get that with SCALE systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cliff W.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/7/2023

"Easy to use HC platform with great support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The Scale platform is straightforward to set up and deploy. Once it is up and running, it is easy to spin up new VMs and set up backup scheduling. I like that you can buy a cheap and deep system for snapshots and keep your other systems for your VMs. In the six years we've used Scale, I've only had to contact support four times. Every experience has been friendly and professional. This is one of the main plusses for using the Scale system.

Platform updates are seamless and can be run during the day. We've never had an update fail or interrupt our day-to-day work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

The only issue we've had would be migrating off of the Hyper-V platform to Scale. It isn't a terrible process but it is very transfer intensive - having to export the "blank" VM and then re-import the "loaded" VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wesley A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/7/2023

"Self-propelled environment that is easy to forget about"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The set-up of the environment only took a couple of hours before the environment was up and spinning.

The migration and ease of integration of VMs from the environment we switched from went smoothly, it was not difficult to convert to Scale HC3 disks

The admin user interface in Scale HC3 is compact, informative.

Firmware and feature updates are released to the nodes on a regular basis. You don't have to take down the entire environment to update. One click is needed, then one node is updated at a time. The nodes handle the load balancing between the nodes themselves.

In case of problems with the environment, you can always reach support from a customer portal. The response time for help is short. The help we receive is very professional. If there is a hardware failure, the support sends out spare parts quickly.

Frequency of using the admin portal, is not that often, because verything works and takes care of itself so well that it's easy to forget about environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

What has been most problematic with the Scale Computing Platform, was that the SSD disk was quite sensitive in the beginning. We have had 2 - 3 occasions when they have broken and needed to be replaced. It's all about the quality of the SSD perhaps? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/6/2023

"Tremendous Product and Exceptional Support"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

SCALE just plain works and works well. we have 2 sites that are geographically separated by many miles with only a Microwave link between them. By today's standards, this "data pipe" is very small and creates many challenges. With the SCALE product, we can send snapshots between the 2 sites without any issues. The environment is easy to manage and the few times we have needed help, the support we received was incredibly excellent. Moving servers around is very easy, and setting up snapshots or replication is very intuitive and easy. Just a great product. To add nodes, we did contact support but really with just a few commands the nodes were added and happy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

We have had a few updates stop in the middle to the point that we needed support and even in the middle of the night on a Sunday, we received incredible support and the problem was quickly resolved.

One thing, I wish we could just add storage as needed without adding the other resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scale Computing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Off-site backups, server maintenance, testing new apps, and just giving us reliable server performance. As noted previously, we have an incredibly small data pipe and with the SCALE environment, we are allowed to have our 2 main sites communicate and share data effectively. SCALE allows us to function with only a 13MB pipe. We do not have to maintain physical servers although the "nodes" are really servers but wow are they dependable. We can spin up a test server just to play with an application and then get rid of it if the test doesn't go as planned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brad F.

Sr. Systems Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/6/2023

"Affordable, Functional alternative to VMware"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Easy of use. Simple UI that puts most of what you need in front of you in one place.

Cost is very reasonable for the hardware, OS and support especially compared to VMware

Built-in snapshotting and replication. Virtually instant restore time for data drive or entire VM

SCALE teams interaction with customers. They are constantly reaching out to me for reviews of the product and suggestions for future features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Missing some power user features in the UI.

Ability to sort and show metrics for VMs could use some improvement.

Level of fault tolerance in a single cluster regardless of the number of nodes.

Some lack of ability to mix and match different server node configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scale Computing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Greatly simplified our compute, storage and network stack in our datacenter.

Vastly reduced our costs compared to previous solution freeing up budget for other projects.

Much easier to add extra compute and storage to our array.

Single point of contact for support vs seperate contract for Servers and/or SAN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Josh C.

IT Administrator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/6/2023

"Easy to use and great customer support"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Setup of this hyperconverged solution is super simple, and creating and managing virtual machines is so easy my kids could do it. Customer support is very knowledgable and is there to walk you through the setup step by step. The (rarely needed) support I've received through the years is by far the best I've experienced in the industry. Our company uses Scale clusters on a daily basis for our entire computing environment, and we rarely have problems or need support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

I would like to have the option to continue software support on "outdated" or end of life products. I can source hard drives to replace if they fail, so it would be nice to have an extended software support option to extend the life of products to use as a DR failover, or archive servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scale Computing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's an affordable and simple solution for our company. We are a smaller business with a relatively small IT budget, and I'm the only full time IT person on staff. Scale cuts down on time required to deploy and manage servers and desktops. It's extremely simple to manage and update, which allows for more time to devote to other projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew F.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/6/2023

"Almost a Decade of Dependability: My Long-Term Experience with Scale Computing"

5/5

What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Having relied on the Scale Computing platform for nearly a decade, I can attest to its enduring value in the realm of IT infrastructure. The platform's user-friendly interface remains a standout feature, offering simplicity without sacrificing functionality. Whether managing virtualization, storage, or data protection, the intuitive design has made day-to-day operations a breeze.

Scale Computing's scalability has been a game-changer over the years. From the early days of implementation to the present, the platform has seamlessly grown with our evolving needs. The ease of adding nodes and resources ensures that scalability is not just a feature but a practical reality, making it an ideal solution for businesses anticipating expansion. The integration in existing systems is super simplistic.

In terms of reliability, Scale Computing has consistently delivered. Over the years, its high level of resiliency has proven critical during hardware failures, ensuring uninterrupted operations. The automated failover and disaster recovery capabilities have been a reliable safety net, mitigating the risk of downtime and data loss. We use and depend on the Scale servers frequently every day.

Beyond the platform itself, the ongoing support and collaborative community have added immense value to my experience. Scale Computing's customer support remains responsive and knowledgeable, and the user community provides a wealth of insights and best practices.

In conclusion, my nearly 10-year journey with Scale Computing has been marked by a consistently dependable and evolving platform. For businesses seeking a solution that combines simplicity with scalability and reliability, Scale Computing remains a steadfast choice that has stood the test of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

While Scale Computing has generally been a reliable and user-friendly platform in my experience, one aspect that could be perceived as a drawback is the limited degree of customization in certain features. However, this streamlined approach ensures a more straightforward and intuitive user experience, making it an ideal choice for those who prioritize ease of use and quick implementation over extensive customization options. The platform's commitment to simplicity has been a key factor in its long-term success, catering to a broad user base and ensuring efficient operations without unnecessary complexities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Scale Computing Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Scale Computing Platform adeptly tackles the complexities of IT management, offering a user-friendly interface that streamlines tasks and enhances operational efficiency. Its scalability has proven invaluable, seamlessly accommodating our organization's growth without disruptions. The platform's reliability ensures uninterrupted operations during hardware failures, mitigating downtime and data loss risks. In essence, Scale Computing addresses key IT challenges, simplifying processes, fostering scalability, and providing robust reliability, resulting in a more efficient and resilient IT infrastructure for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.