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Scale Computing

The Virtualization Platform designed to deliver simplicity, availability and scalability in a single appliance
Scale Computing is a developer and manufacturer of unified, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized business (SME). The entire Scale portfolio is based on its uniquely flexible Intelligent Clustered Operating System (ICOS) technology that offers full-functioning, advanced storage features at a fraction of the price of comparable solutions.

  1. HC3 OneTouch™ Provisioning - in a matter of minutes, you have all the resources provisioned to have your environment up and running.
  2. HC3 OneTouch™ Configuration - Rapidly configure your resources to match your applications using our automated, easy to use web portal.
  3. HC3 OneTouch™ Deployment - Once you've provisioned and configured, just set the thresholds your business needs, and HC3 does the rest for you.
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HC3 Virtualization Platform

Simplified, highly-automated infrastructure that keeps your apps and business running.

They combined servers, storage, and virtualization into a single solution to make IT infrastructure easier for organizations of every size. It doesn't matter if you have hundreds of IT administrator or hundreds - or just one. Scale's award winning HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure eliminates complexity, lowers costs, and frees up management time.

Using an appliance-based approach to virtualization, Scale's HC3 infrastructure solution is easier to manage, faster to deploy and allows you to scale seamlessly as your organization grows.

HC3 Edge Solutions

Self-healing, right-sized infrastructure that runs critical apps, right where they’re needed.

With edge computing, you can run applications and process data outside centralized data centers, at the edge of your network closest to where that data is created and utilized. Centrally monitor and manage hundreds or thousands of distributed edge infrastructure deployments with few or no on-site IT personnel.

HC3 Cloud Unity

Connect your HC3 system to the cloud to protect your critical assets.

Appliances

HC3 is available on a variety of hardware platforms to meet all your needs.

HC3 brings together virtualization, servers, storage, and backup/disaster recovery into a single solution, eliminating the need for third-party components or licensing. The result is a highly efficient virtualization infrastructure that’s easy to use and effortless to maintain, producing substantial cost savings in both the short and long term.

Appliances

HE150 Series

The HE150 appliances are designed for small-scale data center infrastructure, for edge computing, for remote sites, and for disaster recovery.

HE150
CPU: Intel® Core i3-10110U 2C/4T 2.1GHz/4.1GHz, i5-10210U 4C/8T 1.6GHz/4.2GHz, i7-10710U 6C/12T 1.1GHz/4.7GHz
RAM 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Type: DDR4
STORAGE 1 x M.2 NVMe 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB
NETWORK 1 x 1GbE
Dimensions 1.5” (38mm) H x 4.6” (117MM) W x 4.4” (112mm) D
Power 1 x 90W Power Supply Unit

HE500 Series

The HE500 series appliances are designed for edge computing, small remote sites, and for disaster recovery.

HE500 HE550 HE550F HE500T HE550TF
CPU: Intel® Zeon® E-2100 1 x E-2124 4C/4T 3.3GHz, 1 x E-2134 4C/8T 3.5GHz, 1 x E-2136 6C/12T 3.3 GHz 1 x E-2124 4C/4T 3.3GHz, 1 x E-2134 4C/8T 3.5GHz, 1 x E-2136 6C/12T 3.3 GHz 1 x E-2124 4C/4T 3.3GHz, 1 x E-2134 4C/8T 3.5GHz, 1 x E-2136 6C/12T 3.3 GHz 1 x E-2124 4C/4T 3.3GHz, 1 x E-2134 4C/8T 3.5GHz, 1 x E-2136 6C/12T 3.3 GHz 1 x E-2124 4C/4T 3.3GHz, 1 x E-2134 4C/8T 3.5GHz, 1 x E-2136 6C/12T 3.3 GHz
RAM Size: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Type: DDR4 Size: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Type: DDR4 Size: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Type: DDR4 Size: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Type: DDR4 Size: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB Type: DDR4
STORAGE 4 x HDD 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB 1 x SSD 480GB, 960GB; 3 x HDD 1TB, 2TB, 4TB 4 x SSD 240GB, 480GB, 960GB 4 x HDD 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB; 8 x HDD 4TB, 8TB 4 x SSD 240GB, 480GB, 960GB
NETWORK 4 x 1GbE; 4 x 10GbE SFP+ 4 x 1GbE; 4 x 10GbE SFP+ 4 x 1GbE; 4 x 10GbE SFP+ 2 x 1GbE* 2 x 1GbE*
DIMENSIONS 1U Rack Height: 1.7” (43mm) H x 17.1” (434mm) W x 19.6” (498mm) D 1U Rack Height: 1.7” (43mm) H x 17.1” (434mm) W x 19.6” (498mm) D 1U Rack Height: 1.7” (43mm) H x 17.1” (434mm) W x 19.6” (498mm) D 17” (430mm) H x 6.9” (175mm) W x 22.3” (565.7mm) D 17” (430mm) H x 6.9” (175mm) W x 22.3” (565.7mm) D
POWER 2 x 450W Power Supply Units 2 x 450W Power Supply Units 2 x 450W Power Supply Units 2 x 550W Power Supply Units 2 x 550W Power Supply Units
CERTIFICATIONS UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC
Notes: *Single node configuration only *Single node configuration only

HC1000 Series

The HC1000 series appliances are designed for data center infrastructure, for edge computing, for remote sites, and for disaster recovery.

HC1200 HC1250 HC1250D HC1250DF
CPU: Intel® Xeon® Scalable Proc. 1 x Bronze 3204 6C/6T 1.9GHz; 1 x Silver 4208 8C/16T 2.1GHz 1 x Silver 4208 8C/16T 2.1GHz; 1 x Silver 4210 10C/20T 2.2GHz; 1 x Gold 6242 16C/32T 2.8GHz 2 x Silver 4208 8C/16T 2.1GHz; 2 x Silver 4210 10C/20T 2.2GHz; 2 x Gold 6230 20C/40T 2.1GHz; 2 x Gold 6242 16C/32T 2.8GHz; 2 x Gold 6244 8C/16T 3.6GHz 2 x Silver 4208 8C/16T 2.1GHz; 2 x Silver 4210 10C/20T 2.2GHz; 2 x Gold 6230 20C/40T 2.1GHz; 2 x Gold 6242 16C/32T 2.8GHz; 2 x Gold 6244 8C/16T 3.6GHz
RAM Size: 64GB, 96GB, 128GB, 192GB, 256GB, 384GB; Type: DDR4 Size: 64GB, 96GB, 128GB, 192GB, 256GB, 384GB; Type: DDR4 Size: 128GB, 192GB, 256GB, 384GB, 512GB, 768GB; Type: DDR4 Size: 128GB, 192GB, 256GB, 384GB, 512GB, 768GB; Type: DDR4
NL-SAS STORAGE 4 x 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB, 12TB 3 x 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB, 12TB 3 x 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB, 12TB
SSD STORAGE 1 x 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB 1 x 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB 4 x 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB
NETWORK 4 x 10GBase-T bonded active/passive, 4 x 10GbE SFP+ bonded active/passive 4 x 10GBase-T bonded active/passive, 4 x 10GbE SFP+ bonded active/passive 4 x 10GBase-T bonded active/passive, 4 x 10GbE SFP+ bonded active/passive 4 x 10GBase-T bonded active/passive, 4 x 10GbE SFP+ bonded active/passive
DIMENSIONS: 1U Rack Height 1.7” (43mm) H x 17.2” (437mm) W x 25.6” (650mm) D 1.7” (43mm) H x 17.2” (437mm) W x 25.6” (650mm) D 1.7” (43mm) H x 17.2” (437mm) W x 25.6” (650mm) D 1.7” (43mm) H x 17.2” (437mm) W x 25.6” (650mm) D
POWER 2 x 500W Power Supply Units 2 x 500W Power Supply Units 2 x 750W Power Supply Units 2 x 750W Power Supply Units
CERTIFICATIONS UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC

HC5000 Series

HC5200 HC5250D
CPU: Intel® Xeon® Scalable Proc. 1 x Silver 4208 8C/16T 2.1GHz; 1 x Silver 4210 10C/20T 2.2GHz; 1 x Gold 6230 20C/40T 2.1GHz 2 x Silver 4208 8C/16T 2.1GHz; 2 x Silver 4210 10C/20T 2.2GHz; 2 x Gold 6230 20C/40T 2.1GHz; 2 x Gold 6242 16C/32T 2.0GHz
RAM Size: 64GB, 96GB, 128GB, 192GB, 256GB, 384GB; Type: DDR4 Size: 128GB, 192GB, 256GB, 384GB, 512GB, 768GB, 1024GB, 1536GB; Type: DDR4
NL-SAS STORAGE 12 x 8TB, 12TB 9 x 4TB, 8TB, 12TB
SSD STORAGE 3 x 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB
NETWORK 4 x 10GBase-T bonded active/passive, 4 x 10GbE SFP+ bonded active/passive 4 x 10GBase-T bonded active/passive, 4 x 10GbE SFP+ bonded active/passive
DIMENSIONS: 2U Rack Height 3.4” (87mm) H x 17.5” (445mm) W x 28.3” (720mm) D 3.4” (87mm) H x 17.5” (445mm) W x 28.3” (720mm) D
POWER 2 x 1100W Power Supply Units 2 x 1100W Power Supply Units
CERIFICATIONS UL/CB, CE, FCC UL/CB, CE, FCC

HC3 Virtualization Platform

Overview:

Scale Computing HC3 and the HyperCore architecture were designed to provide highly available, scalable compute and storage services while maintaining operational simplicity through highly intelligent software automation and architecture simplification.

HyperCore puts intelligence and automation in the software layer and was designed to take advantage of low cost, easily replaceable and upgradable “commodity” hardware components including the virtualization capabilities built into modern CPU architectures. By clustering these components together into a single unified and redundant system, these attributes combine to create a flexible and complete “datacenter in a box” that operates as a redundant and elastic “private cloud” with additional nodes being automatically “incorporated” into the cluster and failed hardware being expected, and easily replaced with minimal effort or disruption.

Server Virtualization

  • Integrated hypervisor based on proven, open source technology with no additional licenses
  • Integrated management with the patented HC3 HyperCore Software
  • Live VM migration
  • Cluster to Cluster Replication
  • Easy migration from physical or virtual environments to HC3

Integrated Management

  • Web based UI
  • VM console access from within a browser
  • No separate management server
  • Self-healing including automatic failover of VMs
  • Rolling upgrades and patching with no downtime

Storage

  • Software-defined, hybrid storage system
  • High performing spinning disk with optional SSD storage tier
  • Streamlined, direct block-access data path
  • Wide striping across cluster with redundant data placement
  • Thin provisioning, snapshots, cloning

Flexible Scalability

  • Industry Standard Hardware
  • Remote support
  • Mix and match node types after initial cluster with different storage, RAM and CPU footprints
  • Appliance configurations optimized for size, variety of hardware capabilities
  • Turn key plug and play expansion

HC3 HyperCore Software Features

The HC3 virtualization platform brings together servers, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery into a single, feature-rich solution. This guide describes all of the features that make HC3 the perfect infrastructure solution for any data center or edge deployment.

Rapid, Easy Deployment

An HC3 cluster can be racked, cabled, powered on, configured in a matter of minutes, and VMs can be deployed and running in under an hour. Manage from your preferred web browser to the HC3 web interface. There is no extra software to install, simply upload ISOs to deploy VMs with your favorite guest OS.

Non-Disruptive Scale-Out

When a cluster needs more resources, a new node can be added within minutes without any downtime to the existing nodes or VMs. After racking, cabling, powering up, and assigning an IP address, the new node and its resources are seamlessly absorbed into the cluster, including the storage capacity being immediately added to the storage pool. Adding nodes results in an immediate performance increase to the running VMs as the resource pool is expanded.

Mix and Match Nodes

With HC3, appliances from different HC3 families can be added to and coexist in the same cluster and contribute to the cluster storage pool. Even appliances with dissimilar storage such as all HDD, hybrid HDD + SSD, or all SSD can be combined together as a cluster grows. This allows clusters to grow not just linearly but in whatever way is needed or desired. This support for different size cluster nodes can facilitate non-disruptive upgrades to the infrastructure by adding newer, bigger nodes and then retiring or repurposing older small nodes if desired, all while keeping the VMs running. Check with our ScaleCare support engineers for best practices for your particular cluster.

HyperCore

The heart of the HC3 platform is the HyperCore operating system which includes a fully integrated KVM-based hypervisor with our patented block access, direct-attached storage system called SCRIBE. SCRIBE includes HEAT to automate tiering across our own hybrid flash storage architecture.

HC3 Web Interface

The entire HC3 solution including hardware and software is managed from a single web interface that can be accessed from any node in a cluster. The simple interface design allows both storage and compute resource management and virtual machine management from a single pane of glass. Resource statistics are displayed in real-time along with IOPS, both per VM and cluster-wide. VM consoles are also immediately available from the web interface.

Remote Multi-Cluster Management

Multiple clusters or single nodes across multiple sites may be managed within the HC3 Web Interface. The remote systems can be monitored for errors, warnings, or other issues at a glance. Manage dozens of sites from a single interface for simple, scalable management.

Multi-User Management

For clusters and sites with multiple administrators, HC3 features multi-user administration to allow each administrator a unique account and login. Multiple administrators can be managed with unique logins and activity logging to help troubleshoot issues based on administrator activity.

SCRIBE

SCRIBE is a wide-striped storage architecture that combines all disks in the cluster into a single storage pool that is tiered between flash SSD and spinning HDD storage. Blocks are striped across all nodes in a cluster redundantly to protect both against individual drive failure and node failure. The use of every drive through wide striping gives a performance advantage to every VM on the cluster. Performance is also enhanced through direct block access because of the direct integration between the storage and the hypervisor resulting in Hypervisor Embedded Storage. There are no inefficient storage protocols that would normally be found in SAN or NAS-based storage solutions including Virtual Storage Appliance architectures.

HEAT

HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering is the part of SCRIBE that manages data efficiently between the flash SSD tier and the spinning HDD tier in the cluster storage pool. It prioritizes blocks of data on SSD or HDD based on an I/O heat map that tracks I/O against each virtual disk. Although HEAT is primarily automation happening behind the scenes, it provides the ability for the user to tune the relative priority of every virtual disk in the cluster to further optimize the SSD usage where it is needed the most. You can literally turn it to 11.

Deduplication

SCRIBE includes data deduplication that eliminates duplicate blocks on virtual disks, significantly increasing disk capacity. Deduplication is done with minimal impact to running VMs. Reducing the storage footprint of data to increase your data storage capacity.

Live VM Migration

VMs on HC3 clusters can be non-disruptively migrated between nodes with no downtime. This not only allows for rebalancing resource allocation across the cluster but also allows VMs to be relocated automatically during our rolling update process for the HyperCore OS firmware.

Thin VM Cloning

HC3 uses a unique thin cloning technique that allows cloned VMs to share the same data blocks as their parent VM for storage optimization, but with no dependencies. If the parent is deleted, the clone is not affected and continues operating without disruption.

Non-Disruptive Rolling Updates

HC3 receives software/firmware updates directly to the HC3 Web Interface where they can be applied automatically with no downtime. A single click updates the hypervisor, the storage system, the firmware, and any other part of the complete HC3 system. The automated update process will automatically relocate VMs between nodes to free up the nodes, one at a time, to be updated. When all of the cluster nodes are updated, the VMs are returned to their original configuration across the cluster.

Self Healing

The HC3 architecture is built with layers of redundancy, such as dual active/passive network ports, redundant power supplies, and redundant block storage striped across all cluster nodes. Intelligent automation handles drive failures and node failures, redistributing data across remaining drives and VMs across remaining nodes and automatically absorbing replacement drives and replacement nodes into the resource pools.

VM High Availability

If a node fails within the cluster, all VMs running on that node are automatically failed over to one of the remaining cluster nodes. Failover happens within minutes for minimal disruption. After the node has been restored or replaced, the VMs can non-disruptively be live migrated bak if desired.

Snapshot Scheduling

VM snapshots can be scheduled intuitively and flexibly from the HC3 Web Interface. Schedules can include multiple rules spanning schedule intervals based on minutes to months. Schedules are created as templates that can be assigned to one or more VMs across a cluster.

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 as often as every 5 minutes. Granular selection of VMs for replication allows a range of between one and all of the VMs on a cluster to be replicated. Replica VMs on the target cluster can be booted up within minutes in the event of a failure of the VM on the primary cluster.

VM Backup and Quick Recovery

Full agentless snapshot-based VM backup can protect your VMs to a local or remote site or to our ScaleCare Remote Recovery hosted datacenter. Not only can VM backups be recovered instantly at the DR site, but the data can be quickly restored to the original VM by restoring only differential data.

Remote Support Access

HC3 offers a remote access point exclusive to ScaleCare support to help diagnose support issues and take corrective actions if necessary. This remote access dramatically speeds up support issue resolution by giving ScaleCare support engineers the ability to see issues firsthand and in real-time.

HC3 Cloud Unity

The uniqueness of the Scale Computing solution is its patented HC3 Cloud Unity. HyperCore is preloaded onto all HC3 nodes, ready deploy straight out-of-the-box, fine-tuned for each HC3 node type with nothing additional to license or install. HyperCore continuously monitors all virtual machines, software and hardware components to detect and automatically respond to common infrastructure events, maintain application availability and simplify datacenter management.


Scale Computing partnered with Google Cloud Platform to offer HC3 Cloud Unity. Learn more about this easy, hybrid cloud solution.

For on-prem infrastructure, no solution is easier to implement and manage than HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure. The automated management of server resources and storage means that the management interface is as simple as any public or private cloud environment.

Partnering with Google, we’ve extended the reach of HC3 hyperconvergence to the cloud. Nested virtualization in Google Cloud Platform allows Scale Computing to run HC3 in the cloud and replicate data between cloud and on-prem HC3 systems. Connecting HC3 systems between on-prem and cloud opened the way for the built-in data protection features to be used for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).

Now, with HC3 Cloud Unity, your on-prem HC3 system can be connected to, and protected by, the cloud. By deploying a virtual HC3 appliance on Google Cloud Platform, VMs can be replicated securely and protected for failover and disaster recovery. HC3 Cloud Unity is an ideal option for smaller organizations without a second site for disaster recovery, or for organizations that prefer the flexibility and availability of the cloud.

Documentation

Products Datasheets (.pdf)

White Papers (.pdf)

Product Videos

HC3 Virtualization Platform from Scale Computing

Scale Computing's CEO discusses the innovative HC3 Platform. Built from the ground up for virtualization environments.

Scale Computing - HC3 Video Surveillance

The rapid growth of video surveillance and security allows you to transform traditional security systems into integrated, well-managed extensions of business IT.

Edge Computing from Scale Computing

With edge computing, you can run applications and process data outside centralized data centers, at the edge of your network closest to where that data is created and utilized. Centrally monitor and manage hundreds or thousands of distributed edge infrastructure deployments with few or no on-site IT personnel.