SC//HyperCore™ Hypervisor
Simplify your systems and move beyond traditional IT silos.
IT teams often stitch together separate vendors for compute, storage, and virtualization, each with its own management overhead, update cycles, and failure points. SC//HyperCore Hypervisor delivers scalable storage and compute, non-disruptive flexibility, built-in data protection, and security, without adding operational complexity.
Highly Available Computing Without the Complexity
Scale Computing’s self-healing technology automatically corrects issues, so you can avoid an IT crisis from occurring at just the wrong time. Keep systems up to date, and repair failures as part of a regularly scheduled maintenance cycle.
Use fewer resources, while cutting major costs. The overall efficiency allows the use of much smaller platforms, while still reserving resources to run user workloads. This provides significant savings when multiplied across hundreds or thousands of edge sites.
Secure your data. Reduce latency while eliminating the need for traditional storage management. SCRIBE combines SC//HyperCore storage drives into a single storage pool, requiring zero user administration, and is available to all nodes of the system without requiring any file systems, protocols, or VSAs.
SC//HyperCore Technology—Scalable, Accessible Computing & Storage That Maintains Simplicity Through Automation & Design
AIME
Self-healing automation that continuously monitors compute, storage, and networking, then detects and resolves issues automatically before they impact uptime.
SCRIBE
Enterprise-class, clustered storage layer built directly into the hypervisor, delivering high-performance data access with no VSA overhead.
HEAT
Automated data placement, powered by real-time I/O tracking, that keeps your busiest data on flash and the rest on spinning disk.
SC//HyperCore Platform Overview
Software-defined Storage
All components—storage, virtualization, software and hardware—interface directly through the SC//HyperCore hypervisor and SCRIBE storage layers to create an ideal computing platform that can be deployed anywhere from the data center to the edge of the network.
- Clustered, block storage layer purpose-built to be consumed by the KVM-based SC//HyperCore hypervisor directly
- Enable configurable SSD priority allocation at the individual virtual disk level and intelligent data block priority based on block I/O heat mapping
- Discover all block storage devices, including flash-based solid-state disks (SSDs) and conventional spinning disks (SATA or SAS)
- Aggregate block storage devices across all nodes into a single managed pool of storage
- Allow sophisticated data redundancy, load balancing intelligence, and I/O tiered prioritization
- Efficiently use flash storage when available for tiered data placement
Scalable, Flexible Architecture
SC//HyperCore virtualization suite is designed to scale as your business grows, without downtime, disruption, or rigid hardware requirements. Start with a single node at the edge, scale out in the data center, and manage it all the same way. The same architecture supports the smallest and most demanding workloads alike.
Appliances of different sizes and storage types (all-HDD, hybrid, or all-SSD) can coexist in the same cluster, so growth doesn't have to be linear—it can follow whatever shape your workloads need.
The system also connects seamlessly with SAN environments, offering a cost-effective alternative to VMware and Nutanix that extends infrastructure life while adding automation, scalability, and simplified management on top.
- Add, replace, or remove nodes without disrupting running workloads
- Seamlessly introduce newer, more powerful nodes to the cluster and retire or repurpose older ones, all while keeping virtual machines running
- Extend the value of your SAN infrastructure while modernizing IT capabilities
- Range runs from a 2-node cluster with a lightweight witness for high availability at smaller sites, up through large multi-node clusters for demanding workloads
High Availability and Data Protection
If a node goes down, running VMs automatically move to another healthy node in the cluster—no scripts to trigger or downtime window to plan around. That same non-disruptive movement is available on demand: live VM migration lets you rebalance a cluster, retire an old node, or roll out an upgrade without taking workloads offline.
Every VM gets native, per-VM snapshot scheduling down to the minute, with flexible retention policies you control. Replication sends only changed data blocks—not full copies—to another cluster locally or across any distance, so you can meet your own RPO/RTO targets without added bandwidth cost.
Recovery and failback are just as granular: restore an entire VM, or use file-level recovery to pull back a single file without a full restore. And, because all of this is built into the SC//HyperCore platform itself, there's no separate backup software or licensing to manage.
- Automatic VM failover to a healthy node if one goes down
- Non-disruptive live VM migration during maintenance, upgrades, or node retirement
- Per-VM snapshot scheduling, down to the minute, with flexible retention
- Efficient replication (changed blocks only) to a local or remote cluster
- Fast recovery and failback, plus file-level restore without a full VM restore
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
SC//HyperCore virtualization suite is built for the way modern IT teams work, with automation, consistency, and control across every environment. Whether you're managing one site or a thousand, our virtualization technology integrates directly into your infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Comprehensive REST API library to automate cluster operations, integrate with existing tools, and build end-to-end workflows across sites
- Support of cloud-init radically improves how users run containerized workloads by injecting configuration data directly at boot, ideal for remote deployment and onboarding with no manual touch
- Automated installation of the operating system, container runtime, and workload containers
- Enable consistent change control and more reliable updates through standardization
- Use Terraform to create, power on/off, resize, and delete VMs, attach or remove virtual disks, configure networking, manage replication, and orchestrate snapshots
- Red Hat Ansible Certified Collection for SC//HyperCore to deploy and manage virtualization environments as part of your broader automation strategy
Security
Because compute, storage, and virtualization run in one integrated stack, there's no patchwork of third-party components each carrying its own vulnerabilities to track and patch independently. Scale Computing controls and patches every layer of that stack directly, with no root or privileged access granted to outside parties.
Access to the cluster is tightly controlled. Every action is logged, with native syslog support for centralized logging and PII tagging to control access to logs containing sensitive data. The result is a role-aware audit trail built in from the start, not bolted on after the fact.
- Integrated architecture with no third-party VSA or storage controller to separately patch and secure
- OIDC single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and role-based access control so administrators can limit what each user can see or do
- Native syslog support with PII-aware, role-based audit logging
- Virtual TPM for secure key management, supporting guest-level encryption (BitLocker, LUKS)
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