VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion, but the cost depends on the size of the system.

We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive. Because our contract is so big, they gave us a great deal. Also, there were no hidden costs. 

This is an enterprise solution so licensing costs are generally on the higher side. There will be additional costs if you want to do a network cluster for business servers.

Our current licensing model is mid-tier arrays (EMC VNX) that are licensed based on frame, which lends itself to putting all servers attached to that frame under VPLEX control. The enterprise arrays (EMC VMAX) are capacity based. This makes using VPLEX on these frames very expensive and we only do the systems that are most critical and require failover between sites on these frames. Dell EMC has told me they are addressing this concern.

The pricing is expensive and you need to purchases so many EMC items to cover your needs, as not everything is included.

It’s a bit of an expensive solution if you have multiple storage arrays that need to be encapsulated.

Regarding licensing, VPLEX uses capacity licensing. I think before purchasing the VPLEX you must study your data growth over the next five years and from the beginning order the overall capacity licenses. Extensions as much more expansive than the first purchase.

There are two license types, i.e., Metro and Local.

The VPLEX, along with the RecoverPoint price, can raise the price a lot.