Scale Computing Platform vs. VMware vSAN

Scale Computing Platform

350 Reviews and Ratings

VMware vSAN

59 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Scale Computing Platform	Score7.8 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 vSAN	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	VMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.	N/A

Pricing

Scale Computing Platform

VMware vSAN

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 vSAN
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
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 vSAN
Considered Both Products	Scale Computing Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Under 10 nodes and less than 2 sites, I would rather sell and support Scale. It's just as fast as any other HCI and more stable then VXRail. It's easier to setup and deploy, and get VM's running, and replicating between CLUSTERS. The only reason I would not consider Scale … Incentivized Helpful? Joao Camargo System Administrator in Information Technology at Servix (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale Computing Platform provided all the functionalities we needed for our daily operations, with features that align with our processes. It has the advantage of a unified software package, without add-ons, which proved to be a financial advantage during the acquisition. It … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Mattson IT Director in Information Technology at Uintah County (Government Administration, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform We purchased about 3 years ago. At the time the pricing of these other options was massively higher than Scale HC3. Most of the other options have steep learning curves. Nutanix like HC3 runs on a KVM architecture making it similar but other than a few bells and whistles I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform As a long-time HPE shop, we did look at Simplivity (even knowing that HPE's lackadaisical support was likely to poison Simplivity post-acquisition), but we were very underwhelmed by the demonstrator's lack of expertise in the product, and some basic limitations surrounding the … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware by Broadcom No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Scale Computing Platform	VMware vSAN
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (244 ratings)	10.0 (17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (22 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (40 ratings)	9.2 (4 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (245 ratings)	7.5 (5 ratings)
In-Person Training	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)