Scale Computing S-Series Reviews

Phil Liva

IT Director at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 25 2017

What is most valuable?

Easy VM snapshotting, cloning and exporting. Easy unattended online software upgrades of the host OS (live with all VMs... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Physical server consolidation, VM cloning for easy backups, easy sharing/allocation of compute, storage and RAM resources.

What needs improvement?

Not really sure. Scale does keep improving the features with their regular software upgrades.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing??

Pricing was more than fair and licensing is not a separate purchase but is instead included with the converged package.

Which other solutions did I evaluate??

I have never used VMware or Hyper-V, but the ease of adopting and using Scale's hyperconverged virtualization has been... more»

What other advice do I have??

Some VMware and Hyper-V images cannot be easily installed on Scale, though with conversion tools (e.g. QEMU), many of... more»

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What is Scale Computing S-Series?

Scale Computing's S-series line of storage products is the storage workhorse for the mid-market. It's perfect for the vast majority of SMB uses cases such as archiving, virtualization, virtual desktops, disk-based backup, and even some database loads. It includes 210 MB of throughput on a three-node cluster.

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Scale Computing S-Series customers

Iron County Schools, Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, City of St. Cloud, Sevier County Bank, St. Richards Catholic College, Summit Pacific Medical Center, Auburn University, Triton School Corporation, Safran, Anamosa School District, Karl Strauss, Jasper County REMC, GEO Foundation