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$189.00
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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.
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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 .
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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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Users consistently praise the ease of use and excellent support provided by the Scale Computing Platform, highlighting its intuitive interface that simplifies tasks like VM management and deployment. Many appreciate how quickly they can set up and scale their virtual environments, making it a reliable choice for businesses. However, some users note that expanding resources often requires adding entire nodes, which can be a limitation.

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"Stable, Easy Setup, and Excellent Support"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I really like how stable the Scale Computing Platform is and the ease of adding additional nodes into the cluster. The superior support and excellent uptime are big pluses for me. The hardware is robust and easily manageable, which makes my work much smoother. It's also very easy to set up; we had the clusters up and running in under 25 minutes. The cost difference from VMware and the support were significant factors in our decision to switch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Would love to see more options on the GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joshua T.
JT
Sr Systems Administrator/Manager of Information Technology
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Outstanding Support and Responsiveness"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The level of support has been outstanding. Always responsive and knowledgeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

The interface could be a bit more customizable. The use of Tags is a good way to sort VMs but having different view options, like a tree view, would be welcome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SH
Systems/Network Administrator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great platform, amazing support, highly recommend."
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The best thing about scale is the simplicity of their platform and their support. Navigating through the dashboard, deploying VMs, taking snapshots, reverting back to snapshots, managing resources on the VMs like CPU, storage, and RAM, and everything else is very user friendly and easy to learn. Their support is also some of the best I have dealt with from a technology vendor. They are quick to answer and they almost always can fix my issue during that phone call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

There aren't really many downsides to Scale. The platform itself is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathan H.
JH
IT Coordinator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use, and a caring support team."
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The small Electric Cooperative I work for would not be able to function on the level we do without our Scale system. It has become invaluable. We host multiple critical servers on our Scale system. I love how user friendly the interface is. I have had little to no issues using our Scale system to grow our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Honestly, nothing so far. Once the system is in place, it has been easy to use, and any trouble I have had on our end was quickly resolved by the support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TE
DIR of IT
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"SCALE hypervisor; easy to manage and cost-effective for SMBs"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I like the form factor (6U) for close to 1Pb of storage, 3 hosts. The management interface is super simple. As someone who came from ESX and Hyper-V I found scale to much less complicated and streamlined for this company's smaller virtual environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Simple is great, but if you really want to dig deep into an issue or configuration, you might need to engage SCALE support. However, I've found them to be super fast to respond, super knowledgeable, and super helpful in quickly resolving any complicated setup or issue for a virtual machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services
AL
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Effortless Setup and Outstanding Support"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

It is very quick and easy to get going with Scale. Out of the box experience is very smooth and the assistance provided by support was on target and simple to follow. You don't need experience with other solutions to get this running reliably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Due to its ease of us, some features that power users would like are missing. There is no virtual networking, there is no storage management, there is no native support for OVAs. While it can convert the containers, it requires an SMB share which may not be available in some environments. Additionally, there is no timeout for the hypervisor admin login (well, there is but I was told its 12 months), which may be a major security concern for some. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

"Highly Scalable with Exceptional User Experience"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I use the Scale Computing Platform as our primary virtual environment and appreciate its scalability with resources, space, and time. The platform is really easy to use and offers great flexibility to system administrators. My favorite part is the user experience because, despite being new to virtual environments, I found Scale easy to understand and use. I think the ability to effectively re-allocate resources quickly is crucial, as it allows us to solve performance problems on our production VMs. The setup was also very easy, thanks to the streamlined process by the Scale support team. I also like that we switched to Scale from Veeam due to better pricing and scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Maybe development of some kind of full login page for all of your Scale clusters. I am aware of the feature within the console to navigate to other clusters, but I feel like it could be easier to use/understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

"Streamlined Interface, Needs Real-Time Resource Management"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I appreciate how Scale Computing Platform offers ease of use for migrating our existing VM workload and building out new VM infrastructure, which is crucial for modernizing our IT operations. The streamlined interface and functionality are great for the day-to-day management of virtualized infrastructure, saving time and resources and enabling our IT team to focus on other priorities. The initial setup was quite easy and the documentation is clear, plus their deployment support is great to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Scale Computing Platform is definitely lacking in a few areas such as adding or modifying VM resources in real time without the need to power down the VM. Integration with major backup vendors is another concern, although this is less of an issue now with official support for Veeam. We’ve faced limitations when adding or removing NICs without rebooting the server, or changing the VLAN assignments to the vNICs. There are also bugs, like adding a second vNIC causing a blue screen on the server, which haven't been resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS
Network Analyst
Retail
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Affordable, Scalable Solution with Quick Setup"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I like the scalability of the Scale Computing Platform. I'm able to quickly and easily spin up new instances while also making virtualization changes without affecting our production environment. I can add resources on the fly to production servers and create new server stacks as needed with very little effort. The platform is also affordable, offering similar performance at a lower cost than the previous solution we used. The initial setup was very easy, thanks to their quick setup guide, which takes very little expertise to work through, and with snapshot recovery, setup was finished quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

I'm not a huge fan of the interface. It feels outdated. Error message pop up in the field of view, not able to suppress or move them to a different view. Also, we are not able to add or customize the widgets showing stats on the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew C.
MC
Information Technology Coordinator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ease of Use and Cost-Effective Failover"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I really appreciate the Scale Computing Platform's ease of use. The initial setup was simple and fast, which was a huge plus for me. I also find the dashboard very helpful as it provides all the information on my virtual machines in one place, supported by great filters and tagging that make everything easy to find. It's also worth mentioning that compared to alternatives, it offers failover and redundancy at a better price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Nothing at this time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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GU
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What hypervisor does scale use?

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What is HC3?

Pricing Options

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Standard

$189.00
1 Software License Only. Per core, per year, 5-year term. Per Year

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$238.97
1 Software License Only. Per core, per year, 5-year term. Per Year

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$3,485.00
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