Dell XtremIO's price is affordable and I would rate it a five out of ten. 

At first glance, this solution is pretty expensive. However, when you factor in inline deduplication, inline compression, zero-overhead snaps, thin, etc., you find the overall cost to be inline\better than with traditional tier 1 storage subsystems.

With some workloads that benefit from compression and deduplication, costs are actually better than some tier 2 subsystems (while latency remains <1ms).

This makes some happy dev testers!

Licensing is approximately $200,000 per year.

There are no additional costs other than the licensing fees.

The licensing cost is on a yearly subscription basis, which can be expensive but is necessary for ongoing support and services. The pricing could be improved to make it more accessible.

XtremIO is an all-flash array, which means it's a costly solution. When compared with general mid-range storage solutions, this is more expensive. As far as I know, there are no additional costs besides the license. 

The price of the solution should be reduced. The price matches the price of a VMAX service but it does not have the capability of a VMAX service. However, the prices of Dell EMC XtremIO can be reduceable.

It's not cheap, but it absolutely gets the job done. I don't have any real comment regarding licensing specifically.

There are better solutions available.

If you plan on replicating XIO to XIO you will have to buy RecoverPoint, XIO to XIO only needs SE RecoverPoint lic but that won’t allow you to use RPA to migrate from VNX/VMAX to XIO so consider the EX lic. Remember ever snapshot counts as a logical volume so every replication snapshot counts toward your overall 8192 volume limit. I highly recommend large LUNs to keep your volume count low. We are using 4TB or larger.

Not much to a basic XIO installation, everything is licensed initially. There is no built in replication or other business continuity features, if you need that you will need to look at products like VPLEX to sit in front of the XtremIO.

When considering pricing and licensing issues, note the following:

• The 8192 volume limit
• Snapshots count as logical volume
• Every replicated snapshot also counts

Even before Dell bought it, EMC pricing was steep.

I was not active in this portion of the product deployment.

All the software-inclusive licensing simplifies the cost model.

It is costly but worth it. If the network or infrastructure you have is always a sticking point to users or management, spending the bucks on an all-flash array can help win them over.

XtremIO is pretty straightforward about pricing. However, you need to look at your data so you can estimate, with the advice of DEL EMC, what data reduction ratio you will reach. In our case, a 3:1 reduction ration gave us a positive case compared to other storage arrays.

Pricing is definitely on the higher side and licensing plus maintenance can come as a package. I recommend this as a good negotiation technique with EMC.

Again, both the pricing and licensing were handled by another group. So, I can't comment on it.

Don’t buy this array. You’re paying for loads of magic beans, since it’s mediocre at best for a platform in a rapidly growing field. Look instead at Pure Storage or something with variable block deduplication. You’ll end up spending less and getting a better product with actual support.

The pricing is simple but requires other products for robust data recovery and replication.

EMC has not delivered on promises with their array. We have been with them for seven years and had five different arrays. Same story every time. Worst support in the industry.

Pricing and licensing are in line with other products from other manufacturers. You get what you pay for.

The license for XtremIO is in the box, so you don't have to buy anything.

XtremIO is too high priced, especially in Brazil.

The pricing is okay. It tends to offer some of the best pricing, but I still think it could be better.

I was not involved.

This is the best flash array on the market for high-end workloads, so expect to pay for that. But the support subscription cost is fixed for seven years, which made it easier for us to plan on the maintenance costs.

The initial purchase price was good but when you need to upgrade, it's a different story.

There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

Don’t be scared; it is worth it in the end. EMC and the vendor will work with you.

It is expensive if you need to increase scalability.

This solution is a little bit pricey.