We performed a comparison between Scale Computing HC3 and SteelFusion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."This has helped to improve the reliability of service and operation in all departments, without having to stop in case of emergency situations."
"In our case, the cost and high availability are the two most important factors which we were looking for in a solution."
"The Windows-based StarWind GUI is easy to use and understand and integrates seamlessly with VMware's vSphere portal as well."
"It is extremely stable."
"StarWind vSAN has allowed us to leverage our server infrastructure more completely without the need to add more hardware."
"The ROI is great on this product."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is a very mature software that supersedes its capabilities with my use cases."
"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 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."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I rate Scale Computing support 10 out of 10. They're accessible and responsive."
"The most valuable features are the appliance-type feel and that you don't need additional licenses as everything is built-in."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the nice GUI."
"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."
"There should be some kind of active monitoring connected to StarWind vSAN, so you will be able to act when needed."
"For me, the product could be improved by it being made cheaper."
"It is not very clear within the StarWind Management Console or the StarWind support documentation how to perform maintenance on a single node in a two-node HA cluster."
"The main thing I would like to see improved is the level of documentation."
"The interface of the management console of the StarWind Virtual SAN is complex, and it's difficult for the novice user to interact with the management having less knowledge or training in the product."
"The software monitoring should be web-based to be reachable from any VLAN workstation."
"It would be great if the Linux version of the management console offered the same features as Windows."
"It should reclaim white spaces after big files are deleted."
"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."
"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."
"The product struggles to cope with bigger workloads. In the next release, I'd like some backup solutions to be added."
"Scale HC3 improvements would involve literally fixing up the replication."
"I would like bigger clusters with more than eight nodes."
"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."
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Scale Computing HC3 is ranked 21st in HCI with 7 reviews while SteelFusion is ranked 27th in HCI. Scale Computing HC3 is rated 7.6, while SteelFusion is rated 9.0. 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 SteelFusion writes "Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices". Scale Computing HC3 is most compared with VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VxRail, Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure and HPE SimpliVity, whereas SteelFusion is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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