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

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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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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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Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Seamless Platform for VM Management"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The Scale Computing Platform is seamless and straightforward to use for IT administrators. It was relatively easy to implement the Scale nodes for the first time as Scale support technicians are very knowledgeable and willing to help. The remote connection tool built into the HyperCore System is very cool as it allows multiple users to view the remote display at the same time. Lastly, when receiving remote support, it is really easy as there is a remote connection tool the support technicians can use with your permission to connect to the server nodes in question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Everything has been great with Scale except for one instance where we had a drive fail after around 6 months of using the Scale nodes, which is a bit concerning. The support around this was exceptional, however, as we received a replacement drive with expedited shipping free of charge. There was no data lost as the drives run with redundancy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BB
Server Administrator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Dedicated support"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The support is top notch. Working with support has been great. They are very responsive and will get you answers ASAP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

With simplicity of Scale Computing cluster's and other system comes vendor lock in. It can be restrictive if you already have other virtualized infrastructure it may be difficult to integrate both vendors. With that being said if you don't already have the infrastructure in place or you want to completely move into something new Scale computing 3 node clusters can't be beat. They fill the extremely large market hole of Small business VM needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron G.
AG
IT Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"High Performance and Uptime at a Great Price"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Easy to use interface. High uptime. Low cost. High performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Not allowed to add your own hard disks, has to use proprietary drives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Effortless Cluster Management and Streamlined Operations"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

The scale platform takes many of the pain points of running a cluster away. Simplifying server management, rollout and backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

I think there is a lack of available granular configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rich C.
RC
Director of Technology
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simple and flexible services for a K8 school"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

I love how simple it is to set up and manage. We don't need a lot of features, bells and whistles that we'll never use. Affordably priced as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

we have had some bumps in getting started. Wrong nodes were built but Scale caught it before shipping. Had what we thought was a bad hard drive but turned out to be a bad controller. Support sent out a new unit pretty quick so all is good. I'm a little concerned about microservers quality of hardware but time will tell. The only thing I really dislike is console access in VM's. It's not as good as VMware remote web access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Wholesale
AW
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Scale - Moved from VMware and will never look back"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Scale is very easy to use and was very easy to migrate from VMware to their platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Dashboard is a basic, but that doesn't really hold you back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
AP
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Elmwood School Scale HC3 installation."
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Besides the manufacturing delay. Set up and schduling for online support to onboard the cluster was great. HC3 interface is simplistic to use compared to VMware Vcenter .

Spinning up VM was flawless comapred to Vmware or Virtual box Able to see metrics in Fleetmanger was good but could use more details and better graphs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Idid notice their documentation neeeds to be updated. Thier netowrking guide needs to be based on current switches and Cisco Model. Fleet manager and HC3 Node login needs multiple MFA support beside Okata. DUO or Microsoft Azure MFA app needs to be included. Able to do bare metal and VM backups without snapshots to NAS or Azure or Google Cloud could improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason M.
JM
SEO Specialist, Web Design, IT Guy
Automotive
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy and Awesome Product"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

It was super easy to setup, support is quick and friendly, and is American based. The cluster we purchased was slightly oversized but we purchased as recommended, and it came in handy because we were able to add a bit more we weren't planning too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

There is not one thing I can we dislike about it. It has been a pleasure working with the company from start to finish, and even now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DH
Systems Administrator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"New to Scale - So far so good"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

simple interface, ease of restoring snapshots Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

have found that not all software likes the scale environment. Had to use a workaround to get Solidworks licensing to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
AO
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great platform, great service, migration is lacking"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

It was easy to get installed and configured. The management interface is simple and fairly easy to figure out. Creating new virtual machines takes 3-4 clicks. Support is fast and responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

The Carbonite-based migration tool and licensing was not good. SC support relied on Carbonite for support and I was finding solutions to issues faster than they were. Our migration licenses expired because we spent so much time troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Options

Pricing provided by Scale Computing Platform.

Standard

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

Professional

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

Standard Essentials

$3,485.00
With One-Time Purchase
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Server Virtualization
Storage Virtualization
Network Virtualization
Dynamic Scaling
High Availability
Data Security
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