Other Competitors

Scale Computing
Scale Computing HC3 Features Overview
– Self Healing
– Includes layers of redundancy, such as dual active/passive
network ports, redundant power supplies and redundant block – Storage deduplication
storage striped across all cluster nodes – Virtual disks are de-duplicated, post-process.
– Handles drive failures and node failures, redistributing data
across remaining drives and VMs across remaining nodes and – Single node cluster
automatically absorbing replacement drives and replacement – Offers a single-node that can be run as a replication
nodes into the resource pools target or for small/remote environments.

– High availability – Disaster Recovery

– If a node fails within the cluster all VMs running on that node are – Offers DR-as-a-Service where users can replicate and
automatically failed over to one of the remaining cluster nodes. store VMs in the Scale Computing cloud

– Live VM migration – Migration Utility

– VMs can be non-disruptively migrated between nodes with no – Offers migration utility to move VMs from other
downtime that allows VMs to be relocated automatically during hypervisors (no choice to use VMware, Citrix or Hyper-V).
the rolling update process for the HyperCore OS firmware

– Cluster to Cluster Replication

– VMs can be replicated between two HC3 clusters with native,
built-in replication.
– Replication can be local or remote across any distance and can
be configured to replicate changes (every 5 minutes)
Scale Computing - Competitive Points
‒ Scale computing is not a true HCI solution as it includes only storage, compute only and does not include
networking component like SimpliVity with Plexxi

Not a true ‒ Scale Computing is positioned as a “Niche player” in Gartner report “Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged
1 Infrastructure” (published in Feb 2018), not a leader in HCI market.
HCI solution
‒ The solution is narrow focused not beyond SMB market and lacks visibility among enterprises of all sizes, thus
limiting adoption

‒ Scale Computing solution is integrated with KVM hypervisor, hence it cannot be expanded to other hypervisor
support
Architecture ‒ Need minimum 3 nodes even for initial configuration and each node must run its hypervisor
2 Limitations
‒ HC3 hypervisor support is limited to its internally developed hypervisor based on KVM, making it less attractive for
customers that have chosen VMware or Microsoft hypervisors as part of their stack

‒ Data efficiency is based on software and includes only de-duplication feature and it is only post process de-
duplication which does not yield any performance benefits

Data efficiency ‒ Scale Computing has not published any performance report on data efficiency
3 Limitations
‒ No support for compression

1 – “Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (Feb 2018)

Scale Computing - Competitive Points
‒ Data protection is based on snapshots and entire VM needs to be replicated to another HC3 cluster

‒ Though it supports 1-1, 1-many topology, same VM cannot be replicated to multiple systems

4 Data Protection
‒ Replication are asynchronous and recommends to use WAN optimization for network latency which is vulnerable to
Limitations data loss

‒ No data efficiency benefits during replication

‒ Simple expansion only, can scale up to maximum 8 nodes (maximum 7.68TB SSD per node)
Scalability
5 Limitations ‒ Single-node cluster can scale only up to 72TB HDD (for DR and Edge computing)

‒ Offered with proprietary GUI which adds complexities to IT admin to learn new interface
6 Management
Complexities ‒ Can manage up to 25 clusters via GUI and not beyond

1 – “Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (Feb 2018)

Scale Computing – Other Competitive points
– Average size deployments is maximum 5 nodes configuration (Only max 8 nodes cluster was tested)
– HyperCore OS runs on each host which might lead to performance overheads
– Scale Computing’s solution supports flash storage as a tier, not a cache and features an automated
tiering software that moves data based on priorities set for each VM
– HC3 dynamically places virtual machines on the nodes in the cluster, based on the resources available at
the time of startup (no dynamic placement of VM after startup)
– No stretched cluster, no container support
– Since the majority of Scale Computing deployments are in North America, its support infrastructure in
EMEA and Asia may be less mature and responsive
– Replacing Failed nodes will lead to disruption
HPE SimpliVity vs Scale Computing HC3 – Competitive Summary
Vendor Not true HCI Not a leader in Limited Data
Lock-in solution HCI market efficiency
KVM hypervisor integrated Does not include networking Gartner positioned it as No compression support (not
with proprietary software component Niche player only published any report)

No Flexibility of No built-in
Hypervisor data protection
No VMware and Hyper-V Offers only basic data
support protection via snapshot

Scalability Management Limited Multi-site

Limitations Complexities Deployments Limitations
Scales up to a maximum of 8 Includes proprietary GUI for Less adoption in EMEA and No stretched cluster support
nodes only admin to learn new interface Asia
HPE SimpliVity vs Lenovo Scale Computing solution – Competitive
Summary
Lenovo partnered with Scale computing and offering HCI solution on their server.

No clear HCI No single vendor

strategy support
Lenovo does not have its HCI Customer needs to contact Scale
strategy and partners with existing computing which adds to delay in
vendors resolving issues

Not a leader in Deployment

server market Limitations
Lenovo is not leader in the server Scale computing software can be installed
market compared to HPE server who only by authorized Lenovo channel
is leader. partners on specific server nodes
Top reason to choose HPE SimpliVity Solution

Hypervisor
Greater Data Built-in Data
Agnostic
Efficiency Protection
Architecture

Global Low Entry

Management Cost

Superior Software
Multi - Site
Hardware Optimized
Benefits
Platform Solution