Compare Scale Computing Software Licensing Features & Benefits
Scale Computing’s new licensing tiers deliver award-winning IT infrastructure with tailored, transparent pricing and include:
- Professional Essentials: A cost-effective 3-node virtualization solution with 256GB RAM per node, designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking to modernize IT infrastructure.
- Standard: Reliable, affordable solutions with essential IT features, including HyperCore virtualization and software-defined distributed storage.
- Professional: Advanced tools like replication and GPU virtualization for AI applications and businesses ready to scale.
Scale Computing Software License Comparison |
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| Key Attributes | Description | Standard | Professional | Professional Essentials |
| Licensing Model | Annual Subscription, based on 1-, 3-, and 5-year terms | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| License Metric | Per Core* * Contact your Scale Computing Account Executive for distributed enterprise licensing inquiries |
✓ | ✓ | Predictable, limited 3-node configuration |
| Built-in Security | ||||
| Zero-trust principles | Ensures strict access controls by verifying every user and device, regardless of their location. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Role-based access control (RBAC) | Role-Based Access Control: A security mechanism that restricts system access based on user roles and permissions. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single Sign-On | Login that allows users to access multiple systems and applications with one set of credentials. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Simplified Operations | ||||
| SC//HyperCore hypervisor | Integrated, enterprise-grade hypervisor designed for simplicity, performance, and high availability. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unified management | Centralized platform to monitor, manage, and optimize IT infrastructure from a single interface. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-monitoring | Automatically tracks system performance and health to ensure optimal operation with minimal oversight. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-healing automation | Detects and resolves common system issues without manual intervention, ensuring continuous uptime. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated remediation | Proactively addresses potential failures by applying corrective actions to maintain system stability. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intelligent ideal state modeling | Predicts and enforces the optimal configuration for workloads to maximize performance and resource utilization. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Virtualization and VM management | Enables the creation, management, and optimization of virtual machines for efficient IT operations. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| UEFI VM support | Supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based virtual machines, ensuring compatibility with modern OS features and security. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| VM-to-Node affinity management | Ensures specific virtual machines run on designated nodes for performance, compliance, or availability needs. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Storage | ||||
| Distributed storage with high availability | Provides fault-tolerant, shared storage across nodes, ensuring data availability even during failures. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated storage tiering | Dynamically moves data between storage tiers to balance performance and cost efficiency. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pooled storage | Combines storage resources across nodes into a unified pool, optimizing capacity and simplifying management. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Orphan block detection | Identifies unused or abandoned data blocks to reclaim storage space and maintain optimal system efficiency. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intelligent data block priority | Prioritizes frequently accessed or critical data blocks to optimize performance and reduce latency. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intelligent I/O heat mapping | Identifies and optimizes frequently accessed data paths to enhance storage performance and reduce latency. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thin provisioning | Allocates storage on-demand to maximize utilization and minimize wasted capacity. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deduplication | Reduces storage usage by eliminating redundant data across the system. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HyperCore Data Protection Suite | ||||
| Manual snapshots and cloning | Create point-in-time copies of virtual machines and clone them for backups or testing purposes. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Live virtual drive expansion | Expand virtual drive capacity on running VMs without downtime, ensuring seamless scalability. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mounting virtual disks for file-level recovery | Attach snapshots to recover specific files without restoring the entire virtual machine. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snapshot scheduling | Automate the creation of snapshots at regular intervals for consistent backups and recovery options. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Replication | Synchronize data between clusters or sites for disaster recovery and business continuity. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Hybrid Cloud | ||||
| Hybrid cloud integration | Seamlessly extends on-premises infrastructure to public or private cloud environments for added flexibility and scalability. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application Performance | ||||
| GPU acceleration | Enhances performance for compute-intensive workloads by leveraging GPU resources for faster processing. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Integration Services | ||||
| REST API access | Provides programmatic access to manage and automate infrastructure tasks, enabling seamless integration with third-party tools. | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SC//HyperCore Ansible Collection compatible | Compatibility with Ansible automation tools to manage Scale Computing HyperCore environments through pre-defined modules and playbooks. | ✓ | ✓ | |
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