TrustRadius Insights for Scale Computing Platform are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Ease of Updates: Users have appreciated the simplicity of performing updates on the Scale Computing Platform, noting that it only requires a single button to push, allowing for efficient streamlining. This has saved users valuable time and effort and has helped them to stay current with software enhancements seamlessly.
Efficient Deployment: Reviewers have highlighted the easy and fast deployment of new servers on the platform, i.e. requiring zero additional space or power making the setup hassle-free. The efficiency in deployment has been crucial for users looking to expand their infrastructure rapidly without complications or delays.
Robust Backup Solutions: Users value the robust backup solutions available on the Scale Computing Platform, mentioning the ease of creating multiple scheduled backups for machines and the speed at which fresh installations can be brought up. This reliability has instilled confidence in users regarding data protection and disaster recovery capabilities.
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Scale Computing Platform Reviews
44 Reviews
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
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Scale Platform allowed us to migrate several of our aging bare metal systems to a virtualized environment that allowed us greater redundancy, lower operating costs, and easier management. Despite being a small company, we had many initiatives that required in-house systems for development and production. Additionally, a reluctance to move our services to the cloud prompted us to run the services we needed (email, file services, database services) on systems we personally maintained. The use of Scale provided a more efficient and cost-effective solution for managing the individual group of on-premise systems.
Pros
Exchange 2019.
Microsoft Server 2022.
Spinning up new servers or virtual workstation terminals for quick testing or providing temporary workspaces to transient staff/contractors.
Cons
Better efficiency of resources use for the purpose of being able provision the systems in the cluster with fewer resources but still support failover to two of the three systems in the cluster.
Integration with legacy storage and processing resources.
More robust redundancy with network architecture.
Likelihood to Recommend
Scale is best suited to environments that do not have excessive external or proprietary peripherals. Integrating with tape drive backups or robot tape libraries can be problematic. The most effective use of Scale systems is for companies running multiple instances of the same operating system. The hypervisor's code/file-sharing nature does an excellent job managing new instances while keeping the increase in storage to a minimum.
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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Production servers running our business, including SQL and Oracle Databases. The scale was easy to deploy, and its simplicity makes it ideal for smaller IT shops with limited resources. After Broadcom bought out VMware, replacing it was required, causing a spike in VMware licensing costs.
Pros
Easy to Deploy.
Ease of use.
Updates are easy and fast.
Cons
Migration process was a little painful.
More views from the web GUI to allow some customization.
Alerting certain things could be better when critical items happen in the environment.
Likelihood to Recommend
Due to its simplicity, it works great for smaller IT shops. However, it may not work if vendors are not fully supporting the platform. The scale needs to be more mainstream for some vendors to accept the platform and support their products, creating potential support issues.
VU
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Scale is the best VMware alternative in the industry right now. Due to recent changes in the VMware pricing model, the renewal cost for customers has skyrocketed. With Scale, you get more features and failover options with way less cost, and it works best for small-to-medium businesses, not just big brands.
Pros
Amazing redundancy.
Secure data transfer.
Secure data storage.
Cost efficient.
Easy to use.
Cons
Can improve GUI to manage cluster.
Likelihood to Recommend
If a customer is using VMware and is affected by the recent subscription changes in VMware, scale computing is the best option for them as they can save capital and get the best tech currently in the industry. Also, the support with scale is amazing.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees)
We use Scale Computing Platform servers to run our online web application. These servers are easy to update, have reliable performance, and work in high availability, which means that if one node in the cluster fails, the system will remain online. They also have copies of our data in multiple drives, which means that if a single drive fails no impact is noticed. Scale support is quick and competent as well and that is an asset when you have trouble and need to react quickly. These were the main concerns that were improved when compared with the previous set of servers we had.
Pros
Reliable performance
High availability
Easy firmware updates
Great support
Cons
Management interface
Hardware upgrades on the current servers
Longer server/system support/lifespan
Pricing
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe that for any scenario where you need a virtualization platform with decent performance, high availability, and a responsive technical support team, Scale Computing Platform servers would be a good fit. To be honest, I'm not sure which scenarios would be less appropriate.
We utilize the Scale Computing Platform as a central
element of our IT infrastructure. SCP provides us with a highly
scalable and flexible solution. By consolidating servers and efficiently utilizing resources, we have reduced complexity while lowering operating costs. Furthermore,
the platform's high scalability has enabled us to quickly grow into upcoming demands without compromising performance. Additionally, we have successfully integrated SCP into our
disaster recovery strategy, leading to highly improved resilience and data
security.
Pros
VMs transitioning from one host to another without any sort of hiccup or service interruption
all in all very thoughtful and strategic usefull GUI
Automated and transparent replication of VMs towards DR nodes
Cons
Shell access for experienced and SCALE certified users
Likelihood to Recommend
Very good for linux and windows guests, also VDI is working hillarious. But I'd rather not use it for Docker or Portainer scenarios
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Internally we use Scale HCI to run proof of concept solutions (software) for our clients. We also use it to show our clients what it can do, and how easy it is to use.
Pros
Ease of deployment
Ease of operations
Ease of updates
Cons
VM Encryption
Likelihood to Recommend
My company has deployed Scale for small to med sized work loads. It is perfect for the SMB market running 30 or less VM's with site to site replication. The management interface is super simple, and flexible. It is also more cost effective to deploy than some single host solutions. I would be hesitant to deploy Scale in a high compliance environment because it can not native support KMS for drive encryption. This is one of the only issues I have seen so far.
Scale is our number one recommended hypervisor platform and becomes the backbone of our clients IT infrastructure. When selecting scale for clients we look at overall cost savings, ease of use and scalability. (No pun intended) We implement Scale for clients that have as little as 5 users to clients that have over 8000 users! With the ease of use it takes the burden off of the IT department for both the hypervisor and backups. Our clients can sleep better at night and can "Set it and forget it".
Pros
Snapshots are lean and fast, so restore time is simply amazing. When you don't have time to wait after a crypto attack to restore, I have found nothing faster!
Clients can never fully know their growth for years to come, and sometimes it is only a year after the original install. This is no problem we can build on to the system like Lego blocks. Just simply adding a node or two and there is no downtime!
There are many functions that can be done while servers are running that help to maintain the most uptime, as an example disk size on the primary disk can be expanded without shutting down the server.
Cons
Currently there is nothing I would change.
Likelihood to Recommend
Scale has worked perfectly for all of our clients with no issues to date.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (1-10 employees)
After attending SpiceWorld last year 2022 and speaking with the Scale Sales Team, I decided to look into Scale to repalce the Dell Server running Hyper-V that was out of warranty. I was sold on switching after the demo, plus the cost of a Scale Cluster was much less than buying new servers. Running a 3 node cluseter has greatly improved performance, that my end users have even noticed, and now I also have in the event one server fails they virtual machines will failover to the other 2 servers.
Pros
Server Redundancy
Cost
Virtualization
Customer Support
Cons
At this time I can't think of anything
Likelihood to Recommend
Onboarding with Scale was such a breeze. I worried about how difficult it would be to migrate my servers from Hyper-V over to Scale, it was the easiest migration I've ever had.
Anywhere that requires highly available, highly scalable setups. As optics on the client are required prior to quoting, it's difficult to undersell, which is a huge bonus.
We currently utilize a 3-node system made up of the Intel nucs. It now houses our servers that were once on an 11-year-old Dell server that was on its last leg. The backup solution at that time consisted of writing to a hot-swappable HDD that needed to be swapped out every morning. Moving to Scale Computing, we spun up a backup server with a solution that mirrors the backups on our local storage/NAS and moves them off-site to a cloud backup repository making them immutable and untouchable unless needed. That was the deciding factor in going with Scale Computing was the redundancy of multiple nodes limiting downtime in the event of a hardware failure.
Pros
Customer/Technical Service is top notch.
Communicate with Customers in regards to updates, news, how-to's.
They do not overstate the systems capabilities to simply make a sale, 100% honest.
Cons
Market their user community more as it is a great tool!
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for use in an environment where downtime isn't an option; production can't stop. Even for our small shop, if something goes wrong or an HDD on a standalone server fails, we need to be up and running within an hour and Scale allows this, within minutes typically having multiple nodes at our disposal to migrate a server to.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
