We performed a comparison between Scale Computing HC3 and VxRail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Integration with Microsoft clustering has been perfect, allowing us to leverage our investment in MS server licensing to the fullest."
"The virtual tapes can be uploaded to the object storage of your choice with object locking/governance which gives you an extra layer of protection."
"The solution offers easy one-click PowerShell scripts that are ready to run."
"The solution provides great performance for the price it is listed with."
"It has improved our organization in terms of its uptime as our main cluster has never been offline due to a SAN failure."
"This product now allows us to migrate virtual machines between nodes as if we had a dedicated $100,000 SAN in the mix without the additional cost and management of the SAN."
"Active-active work mode leads to true redundancy of storage and allows us to distribute the load between multiple nodes."
"The access to our data is quicker and cheaper than it used to be in a traditional storage system."
"The solution is scalable."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The product's initial setup phase is too easy."
"I like that Scale Computing HCR is slimmed down and gives me the features I need and not features that I don't need."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"The most valuable feature of Scale Computing HC3 is if one of the devices fails, you won't even notice, the service maintains operation. The customers don't have to waste two, or three days on delays. Additionally, you do not have to waste time with recovery software, it is a lot easier."
"VxRail's technical support is very good."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"It's a turnkey solution, which is good for customers, because they are buying into stability."
"With VxRail, we can manage the life cycle of a virtual machine."
"It supports VDI deployment, enabling easy use for running different platforms in similar environments."
"It improved from an operations standpoint as we have reduced failures compared to a previous vendor. The hardware that we previously used had a lot of issues with components failing regularly."
"There is no in-depth config involved nor third-party needed, saving us time and money."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
"Updating the software can be a bit tricky."
"It would be good to have a little more access to control certain aspects within the UI."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"I had to buy upgraded support, which was not a problem, but it wasn't a prorated amount, so I paid for the support, the full upgrade, but I only got a couple of months out of it because it was only good until renewal time."
"I wish there was online support because email return takes a long time and a faster solution should be found."
"I'm sure it needs bug fixes..."
"I wish the sync after a failure, such as hardware failure or power-related issues, for example, was faster."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"I've had so many issues with the sales team when I was looking to make some improvements, and improve the performance. They would create so many excuses to force me to buy new nodes all the time and not let me add more memory to each node."
"On the fly, you cannot do anything on Scale Computing HC3, though it is a very rarely needed area."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"The product could use a better control center."
"Scale Computing HC3 said in an announcement they were going to integrate with a backup service which would be good. If they could do this it would be beneficial."
"The snapshot technology takes up 500 times more space compared to other solutions."
"We used an integrator team for the implementation of the solution. The one person who takes care of the maintenance of VxRail, such as upgrading the software. The upgrading takes too long. We have many nodes which takes a long time, they need to improve the speed of the upgrades"
"I would like to see VxRail add duplication features to its hybrid solution."
"Pricing could be improved."
"Supply chain capabilities are certainly hurting us. We're in the process of placing a large order for more VxRail nodes right now."
"I would like it to tier to the cloud effectively, making sure that cold data can be pushed out to some sort of Bitbucket."
"There could be better documentation and they should allow everyone to access the simulator."
"If VxRail could also offer file services in addition to virtualization, that would be nice because sometimes people want to complement their environment with file services, and you don't have that in VxRail."
"The scalability is limited to a single cluster with 64 nodes."
Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 19th in HCI with 8 reviews while VxRail is ranked 1st in HCI with 120 reviews. Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.8, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Scale Computing HC3 writes "A reliable stripped-down solution that comes with excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Offers a hassle-free, complete package, and is energy-efficient". Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure, HPE SimpliVity and Dell PowerFlex, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and HPE Hyper Converged. See our Scale Computing HC3 vs. VxRail report.
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