Scale Computing Platform vs. VMware ESXi

Scale Computing Platform

350 Reviews and Ratings

VMware ESXi

810 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Scale Computing Platform	Score7.9 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Scale Computing offers edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions for customers around the globe. Scale Computing HyperCore software promises to eliminate traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. The vendor says that, using patented HyperCore™ technology, the SC//HyperCore self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and…	$249 per year per core
VMware ESXi	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	A bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server. With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.	N/A

Pricing

Scale Computing Platform

VMware ESXi

Standard: $249
per year per core
Professional: $312
per year per core
Professional Essentials: $5,600
one-time fee

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Pricing Offerings
Scale Computing Platform	VMware ESXi
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

Pricing shown in U.S. Dollar. Pricing for other regions available on request.

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Scale Computing Platform	VMware ESXi
Considered Both Products	Scale Computing Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform KVM: Scale HC3 Hypervisors builds on KVM, but extends it massively with their hassle-free setup, integration and support. Proxmox: Also builds on KVM, but needs much more manpower to keep it running. VMware ESXi: I'm a long-time ESXi expert and had to deal with all the hassles … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale provides similar features to VMware ESXi. The ease of use and price point were the main drivers for our infrastructure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale is much less expensive than VMWare and much more user-friendly than Linux. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform The scale is as robust as VMware's but needs more vendor support, such as VEEAM, for backup. Scale overall costs caused us to move to the platform to reduce our overall costs from hardware and maintenance costs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform These other alternatives are much more expensive and lack the ease of use that Scale Computing Platform provides. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform We used a mixture of VMWare and stand-alone servers prior to moving to the Scale Computing Platform. After the initial investment, this has lowered our cost to maintain our server environment. Incentivized Helpful? Sara Fair Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at Williams Construction (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Easier to use, better performance. Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Ferriter Network and Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Community High School District 218 (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale was overall the better option for us due to the ability to get a very powerful system for a cheaper price than what it would have been to achieve the same with VMWare. Although, this has changed now that Scale has seemingly gone to a subscription model for it's software … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform I can't speak to large organizations however Scale seems like the perfect fit for small to medium size organizations. We could not justify the cost of VMWare with our needs, and the uncertain future of Hyper-V led us to pick Scale. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform At the end of the day, and in the environment we are in, Scale just fits the bill, both price-wise and functionality-wise. Upgrading our VM environment was always a week-long process, now, it is a twenty-minute process, implementing, converting VMs, and rolling everything over … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale Computing is much more simple to manage and set up, and use right out of the box than the competitors. One can be up and running out of the box within an hour. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Beane IT Director in Information Technology at Ambassador Baptist College (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform One stop show for both hardware and software. The Hypervisor is specifically designed to work with their Hypervisor. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform For an organization our size, Scale is the complete package at a lower cost. While it doesn't have anywhere near the amount of configurability of VMWare, the features we really needed are included. Staff required almost no training (compared to VMWare), and setup of the cluster … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Hardcastle VP / IT Director in Information Technology at Table Rock Community Bank (Banking, 11-50 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Price was a huge factor. Of the products we looked at the Scale HC3 package was considerably cheaper, but had processing, storage and virtualization we needed. I spoke to other companies in our line of business that own the Scale servers and all were so happy they moved over to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale was the right fit, it was ready to go immediately! No complex setup needed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform When it was time to refresh our old previous virtual environment, we looked at traditional server/storage, server/san, as well as other HCI competitors. We evaluated many solutions, but decided on Scale Computing for its simplicity to manage, use and setup, cost, but most of … Incentivized Helpful? Rodd Ahrenstorff Director of Operations, Partner in Information Technology at KT Connections, Inc (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform VMware has significantly more complexity. Nutanix no longer addressed the SMB market very well or edge-computing. Incentivized Helpful? Tomislav Ilic Electronic Technician - IT in Information Technology at Telford Offshore (Oil & Energy, 501-1000 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale Cluster Computing HC3 has much better GUI for non-professional users to manage and operate. Replication is fairly simple to implement and configure. The allocation of physical storage is much better than alternatives. The most important thing is that scale software … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Martini Director Of Information Technology in Information Technology at HR Imaging Partners Inc. (Photography, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale Computing HC3 runs as well or better than our previous VMWare environment at a much less overall cost. Incentivized Helpful? Collin Coe Lead Engineer - Technology Services in Information Technology at Greenleaf Hospitality Group (Hospitality, 501-1000 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform The price to performance for Scale Computing HC3 is something that made the final decision for our organization easy. While Scale may lack some of the advanced features of VMware, as a shop that had used VMware for over 7 years, I can confidently say that in my time with the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform There is no nickel and diming for features. Incentivized Helpful? Durgesh Kalya Senior IT, I&C Systems Coordinator in Information Technology at JX Nippon Chemical Texas Inc (JXNCTI) (Chemicals, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform The vendors that I mentioned offer solutions very close to Scale Computing however, we found out that their solutions had many pieces and a lot of overhead. The overall ability to consolidate different pieces such as Backup-replication, Storage, Virtualization Software, … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Selby Director - Infrastructure & Cybersecurity in Information Technology at Echo Energy (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform We have built out several test environments and have demoed all of these products and we were not able to build out or purchase an environment that performed as well or had the features as Scale HC3 for the same investment. Incentivized Helpful? Tracy Burton Network Administrator in Information Technology at Insight Lighting (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale replaced a VMWare solution. We compared Scale against a new VMWare solution as well as against a Nutanix hyper-converged solution. After looking at the costs, features, support, and hardware, Scale was the easy choice for our business. It fit every need we had and after 6 … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware by Broadcom Tom Blazek IT Manager in Information Technology at Rancilio Group North America (Wholesale, 11-50 employees) Chose VMware ESXi I think VMware ESXi is a better solution than Hyper-V was at the time. Mainly because you don't need to run a Windows OS to run ESXi. I also think the integrations available with [VMware] ESXi are superior[.] Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Scale Computing Platform

VMware ESXi

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Scale Computing Platform and VMware ESXi
Feature	Scale Computing Platform - Ratings	VMware ESXi 8.2 128 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	8.0116 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	9.0128 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	8.0112 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	8.0116 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	00 Ratings	8.0117 Ratings

User Ratings
	Scale Computing Platform	VMware ESXi
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (244 ratings)	9.0 (129 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (22 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (40 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (245 ratings)	10.0 (55 ratings)
In-Person Training	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	5.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)