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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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Scale Computing Platform Reviews (265)

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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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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 Automotive
AA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Faster Cloud platform"
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Easy to navigate and proper backup systems in cloud platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

Customer service need to more competent person. 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.

CC
IT Coordinator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Solid hyper-converged solution for small/medium businesses."
What do you like best about Scale Computing Platform?

Simplicity. Honestly, at first I thought it looked too simple, but after fully migrating over to Scale from VMware I realized I didn't require the thousand tweaks that it offered. Plus, most SysAdmin's dread upgrades to VMware and with Scale it is an absolute breeze. I spend barely anytime having to manage our 3-node cluster compared to what I was doing with our VMware cluster.

We've been running Scale for a little over 2 years and it's been exceptional. Support is all US based and timely.

We will be putting in our first DR node in a few months so we are committed to Scale. Also, no need to purchase additional licensing for replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Scale Computing Platform?

There are few things I wish they would add such as Hot Add CPU/Memory, Dynamic Memory, firmware management (the ability to managed drivers/firmware for the hardware), advanced networking (netflow within the hypervisor), VM metrics, VM boot order, and VM affinity (I want to make sure my Domain Controller's are running on different hosts).

Even with these features missing they weren't enough to sway me to stay with VMware or move to Nutanix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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GU
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Last activity over 3 years ago

What is HC3?

GU
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Last activity over 3 years ago

What hypervisor does scale use?

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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