we have a handful of openings at Scale: https://boards.greenhouse.io/scalecomputing#.V2wxDpMrL_Q

How about a 4 year old? A few years back, one of our Sales Engineers had his 4 year old daughter create a VM on HC3...the result is cuteness overload:

Youtube Video

@MattSpeller The best place is probably just clicking around through http://www.scalecomputing.com/ as a starting point. If you want to see it in action though, we have a weekly demo that our office of the CTO usually runs:

http://bit.ly/HC3LiveDemo

It is pretty informal and gives a chance for a lot of questions to be answered as we show the UI/features. Let me know if there are any questions I can answer in the meantime!

Craig M. Theriac
Director of Product Management
Scale Computing

@dafyre you could run 2 single nodes and have them failover manually using the replication, but for high availability in a single cluster, it would need to go from 1 to 3 currently.

@travisdh1 Not really a management position today, but perhaps in the future. It is definitely a lot for 1 person to do, but such is life in a startup

@Breffni-Potter TL:DR - We (Scale) introduced SSDs next to NL-SAS drives in our HC2000 and HC4000 platforms with some awesome new tiering functionality.

@scottalanmiller Yeah, that's correct. You would have to convert the virtualbox image to qcow2 using a tool like qemu-img and then follow the steps to import (...create a VM on HC3, export it, copy over the exported qcow2 with your newly converted qcow2, import). I can't say that I have done it, but would be happy to play around with the process if it is helpful.

There are also tools like HC3 Move which would do this conversion without much downtime. For this tool you install HC3 Move in a VM running on HC3 and the source (virtualbox in your case)...it then continuously captures byte-level changes and transfers them over to HC3. Once the initial synchronization is complete, it continues replicating changes until you tell it to cut over at which point it shuts down the source and restarts the target VM on HC3.

@DustinB3403 if you have them filtered down and want to cut/paste to another tab, you can select "visible cells only" by going to Edit / Go To... / Special... and select "visible cells only" to cut/paste just those rows visible in your selection.

@Breffni-Potter We have a UK office with a number of local resellers (who actually provide value beyond pushing boxes ). I have reached out to some of our local Systems Engineers to jump into the thread to make an introduction. They should be able to coordinate a time/place for you to see one. In the meantime, we do offer a weekly demo as well (http://bit.ly/HC3LiveDemo).

@stacksofplates for HC3 Move it is actually in partnership with Vision Solutions. The full name is HC3 Move Powered by Double-Take...Double-Take Move being the product we are OEM-ing for that.

We have played around with virt-v2v and virt-p2v, but haven't integrated them in the product yet.

@DustinB3403 if you have them filtered down and want to cut/paste to another tab, you can select "visible cells only" by going to Edit / Go To... / Special... and select "visible cells only" to cut/paste just those rows visible in your selection.

@scale @hobbit666 I'll DM you to get some more info

@DustinB3403 said in Scale HC3 cluster for sale:

@scottalanmiller said in Scale HC3 cluster for sale:

As this is an appliance, how does the transfer of support work in this situation?

Paging @scale to answer.

Support doesn't transfer, so you'd have to purchase a new contract/renewal. We offer a "recertification" service for this type of transaction where the nodes are shipped to us to make sure everything is still up to our standards before we can provide support/warranty on the hardware. I believe it is $500 per node (which I think includes the cost of shipment).

@dafyre you could run 2 single nodes and have them failover manually using the replication, but for high availability in a single cluster, it would need to go from 1 to 3 currently.

@stacksofplates for HC3 Move it is actually in partnership with Vision Solutions. The full name is HC3 Move Powered by Double-Take...Double-Take Move being the product we are OEM-ing for that.

We have played around with virt-v2v and virt-p2v, but haven't integrated them in the product yet.

@scottalanmiller Yeah, that's correct. You would have to convert the virtualbox image to qcow2 using a tool like qemu-img and then follow the steps to import (...create a VM on HC3, export it, copy over the exported qcow2 with your newly converted qcow2, import). I can't say that I have done it, but would be happy to play around with the process if it is helpful.

There are also tools like HC3 Move which would do this conversion without much downtime. For this tool you install HC3 Move in a VM running on HC3 and the source (virtualbox in your case)...it then continuously captures byte-level changes and transfers them over to HC3. Once the initial synchronization is complete, it continues replicating changes until you tell it to cut over at which point it shuts down the source and restarts the target VM on HC3.

@travisdh1 Not really a management position today, but perhaps in the future. It is definitely a lot for 1 person to do, but such is life in a startup

we have a handful of openings at Scale: https://boards.greenhouse.io/scalecomputing#.V2wxDpMrL_Q

@Dashrender the HC1150 is shipping with Samsung's SM863 today. As with all of the components we ship in our appliances, we are constantly looking for alternatives that can offer similar performance/endurance/price to protect customers (and our company) against supply chain issues. So a blanket "subject to change" statement is probably warranted.

@Dashrender standard off the shelf drives that we pool together with our software to manage as a tier to protect against failures etc