While we lack specific details regarding VxRail's latency and cost compared to public cloud infrastructure, it positioned itself at a significantly higher price point than our traditional server and storage setup when we made the decision. In comparison, VxRail likely sits closer in cost to a public cloud solution, with the cloud potentially being slightly more expensive depending on the specific resource requirements. Ultimately, from an IT perspective, the benefits of VxRail outweighed the cost considerations. We opted for the additional investment, despite the roughly 25 percent cost saving that the traditional infrastructure offered. This conscious decision reflected our desire to capitalize on the positive IT impacts of VxRail.

The current VxRail pricing structure is quite opaque for me, especially considering the recent changes. This lack of transparency makes it difficult for us to decide whether to replace or expand our existing VxRail system. The complexity stems from the fact that pricing is heavily tied to specific license version choices. Therefore, I would greatly appreciate a more transparent and straightforward pricing structure that simplifies decision-making.

They will have to optimize costs. Currently, the retail sector is complicated because it does not sell as much, and it should precisely be aligned with the reality and current situation of the retail business. Implementation and implementation costs are expensive compared to other on-premises solutions.

The pricing is fair. It's combined with the hardware and the VMware technology to run it as well. It's bundled.

It is expensive as compared to other products in the same category.

Licensing and price for this solution is reasonable.

When compared with others, the price is very reasonable.

Users do find that licensing is quite pricey.

The costs vary from customer to customer.

A typical node that I would sell to a customer has a list price be between $50,000 and $80,000 per node. Organizations typically start with four nodes. That's the hardware, software, VMware licensing, everything. 

Customers typically pay about half of that for VSAN REady nodes - approximately $25,000 to $50,000 a node. On average, it costs about $200,000 to get your foot in the door. That can be quite expensive for any organization that isn't a large enterprise.

It is very expensive.

Pricing is competitive.

It is reasonable. Compared to the legacy hardware that we had so far, we are not paying way more, but we have very good performance. Its price is good.

I was not involved in the licensing of this solution.

The pricing is very accurate, and we haven't had any problems with the licensing costs.

I can't speak to the licensing aspects of the solution. It's basically just a one-time purchase. 

VxRail is expensive because it's based on VMware and V-SAN. The price is not the cheapest. The technical support is expensive, but it is a good service.

I'm not involved in the pricing or licensing. 

Once we get a deal registration, we'll be fine. 

The licensing costs can vary depending on the number of processors and specific requirements, which may result in considerable expenses.

They match the market prices. They know how to be competitive.

With regard to the price, I am interested in what is out there on the market. They need to be aware of the competitors out there. The competitors know what they are doing and how to be powerful with their pricing. Dell can be a little bit more competitive.

The pricing varies. We were able to negotiate a pretty good position

In India, they gave us something like three years without interest. However, there are various categories in terms of getting the correct payment options on the pricing, they have a lot of options.

They gave us 40% off of this year in the Philippines whereas in India they gave a monthly payment option without interest. 

A company can negotiate a price. At my organization, we've always managed very good pricing. Therefore, we have no regrets when it comes to the pricing we have to pay. If you have a good relationship with them, they'll try to take care of you.

The license is very expensive. 

We have a three-year subscription.

In terms of pricing, I would say it's reasonable, not cheap and not too costly. If you compare it with some other HCI solutions, for example, there were a lot of discussions around Cisco UCS for one of the manufacturing sites. The local ITP had a preference for Cisco UCS because they had some prior experience working on it. We had already successfully deployed VxRail in some of the manufacturing sites and we found that Cisco UCS is much too costly. 

In the deployment, all the softwares were included, only the vCenterv was excluded because we were using an external vCenter, so we had to manage an external vCenter license. All the rest was included.

Some licensing, like vRealize was not included, so we have not taken it.

Securing a favorable agreement with Dell presents a distinct advantage. While one could argue, from a strictly corporate standpoint, that the cost of VxRail has been in the higher range, the true evaluation lies in the return on investment. Essentially, it boils down to a question of cost-effectiveness, not simply raw expense.

The pricing for this solution is on the high end but we do get good value for money based on performance.

At about $200,000, this solution is a little bit pricey but it is more economical than others such as Nutanix or Cisco Hyperflex. Dell is more economical.

The solution is pretty reasonably priced. It's not too expensive, and often less than the competition.

It varies. It could be $100,000 at the smaller end and millions and millions of dollars at the higher end. 

Compare it to what you spent on your last solution. Look at other costs: Power, IT staff, time to manage the system, cost of expansion for the future versus current (all costs: human/power/kit).

There is an advantage for those who have a good deal with Dell. Its price is good. From a company's perspective, it is always too expensive, but it is about value for money.

Identifying and freezing the solution by multiple tech discussions and negations. Finalizing solution with hardware is bundled with license. Closing the order with Five-year Support and migration support from OEM.

Fees vary by license type.

The product is very, very expensive, even when you are renewing. It's a problem for us as management is complaining about the price. 

The price would be in the middle to the expensive range. It is not cheap. There are different licensing models as well which can meet the requirements of the customer.

VxRail has a subscription model usually tagged with the appliance box only.

The solution is expensive and it could be a bit more reasonably priced for its customers. We hope it's something that will get worked on.

Compare the VxRail product to Nutanix. Nutanix has more features, but its pricing is higher.

The price is good.

There is a license required for this solution.

The way that VxRail is licensed could be improved. I'm not entirely sure, but I think what I encounter is licensing VMware as Dell. Dell and VMware go together and I think that the licensing has become quite complicated and costly. For things like vSAN especially, having those types of skews displayed and a bit easier to understand how the licensing works behind the infrastructure would be a nice change.

Licensing things like vSphere on top of the platform itself can be quite tricky to manage. For anyone wanting a subscription-based model or a perpetual model, that's always quite important to scrutinize.

The price point needs improvement, certainly for smaller SMBs. The cost of it is still quite painful. I think all vendors should do a product which is capped either by terabytes, IOPs, or VM instances. It should be an SMB solution that's going to make hyper-converged solutions easier for SMBs to get hold of. It's fine for those big guys that have billions of dollars of budget, but not for customers who have barely a 100,000 dollars or pounds in budget.

Its pricing is reasonable compared to other products.

My advice about cost and setup is that it is just as cheap to have the HCI solution as to stay with legacy solutions. If you convert the value of HCI versus the traditional, legacy solution you gain more than you spend. It comes out to an even trade as far as budget.  

At the time, VMware licensing was purchased separately. I have heard that now it is offered as part of the appliance. There is a permanent vSAN license included since it is required, but vCenter\ESXi host licensing should be validated in the purchase process.

We generally procure a three-year license with a support agreement from the supplier. 

I do not believe that the price should be lower. I feel it to be reasonable. This is because we can compare blade with blade server, MX7000 for example, when it comes to buying VMware products, meaning it will not act like a true hyper converged infrastructure. 

The VMware licenses are included and we do not have to worry about the license, everything is integrated.

We made a one-time purchase of the solution and the price is expensive.

The solution is priced well for businesses.

Pricing its depend on your requirement well licensing is very simple all VMware and other license cost including in VxRail. But If an organization wants to buy a VMware enterprise license, then they need to pay separately.

I rate the Dell price a four out of five.

The price of VxRail highly depends on your design and your configuration. For example, if I connect Pure Storage directly to ESXi hosts and bypass Fiber Channel switches and I will save on money. However, it reduces my redundancy and makes it not as robust of deployment and easy to manage. An HCI environment, it's more cost-effective than utilizing a traditional SAN. With storage and computing altogether, you don't necessarily have to involve the networking team as much. I don't necessarily need somebody that understands Brocade's or Cisco Fiber Channel Switches, because I have it all right there.

VxRail is an expensive solution as we have the enterprise license that is billed annually. It has everything we need but it would be nice if they could do something about the pricing.

The pricing is reasonable considering the value of this product. 

There are no additional licensing and support costs. 

Dell VxRail is flexible and reliable and scalable. It's easy to restore without the higher cost. We're not comfortable with the cost of VxRail and neither are our clients. As a result, we sometimes have to go to other brands because the price of VxRail is not competitive. Not that comfortable with some projects so the recommendation is Dell can do the same price as the normal server. I know it's marketing plan, especially for Middle East. It'll be much better and we will buy all the required servers from VxRail not, as you know, you'll go to all hyper-converged infrastructure.

The licensing aspect is the most painful for some of our customers. Customers go for a
VMware license that's standard and then they find they have to go with the enterprise
solution and adjust the license. If you have a limited budget, that's difficult.

VxRail is very cost-effective and affordable in the long term. It is more recommended when it comes to financial life, but it may depend upon the license. VxRail comes with VMware licensing, which may not be that cost-effective as compared to others. With VMware, it's an auto check competition. VMware is an expensive solution, especially for Nutanix. Nutanix have their own hypervisor called Acronis, which is very cost-effective against the VMware.

Nutanix is cheaper for the hardware but not for the software. If you ask the Nutanix partners to deploy Nutanix over Cisco servers or Dell EMC servers, the cost will be higher. Nutanix wants to compete financially. Therefore, they propose their software over the Supermicro server, which is a very cheap Chinese server. In fact, I don't like their terms of service.

HyperFlex has the highest price, and it is very expensive. I don't know why. It may be because this is a UCS system, which comes from Cisco and is already expensive. When it comes to HyperFlex, they need the labor to deploy Hyper-V, Citrix, or any other hypervisor.

It is very expensive.

We've found the pricing to be pretty good.

For the license option, we're buying a five-year solution. It's a full box. We buy the hardware and software solution for five years. Therefore, there's that VMware solution, licensing for five years, and the hardware valid five years of warranty. At this moment, there are no other fees.

The price could be lower. If the price were dropped, the products could sell more easily.

The solution is very expensive. 

We don't have to pay for anything after the initial purchase. There aren't ongoing licensing costs. I don't know the exact price of the solution.

We pay yearly for support. The cost was justified by now because it stays up and I don't have to constantly open tickets. I probably rebooted the system once or twice. We haven't replaced any discs in the storage, we haven't had to do any disc replacements, so it just runs. You pay a little more but you cut down on the maintenance. 

We pay for annual support from VxRail.

We need to buy our license to renew it after a five-year period. The license is for five years.

The price is rather on the high side. 

There is no licensing fee. One can buy HPE, all fully included, with either a three or five year license covering full support. 

The pricing is pretty typical. There is no difference in competitors for the most part. I cannot say VxRail is cheaper than Nutanix. There really is no significant difference to discuss.

This is an expensive product and that should be considered a point to be improved.

I would recommend adjusting pricing of this solution to suit your infrastructure.

Most of the licensing cost is built into the solution since it's an appliance. You don't have to worry about additional licensing or support add-ons.

The impression we got from the technical papers was that it would be very easy and quick to deploy this solution, but it was not. However, after we dealt with those issues, the solution was very solid, very easy. It wasn't easy to configure, but right now it's very stable. We are happy with that.

The licensing was one payment, just one payment. We sell the entire solution including the installation process.

We had some problems with the licensing of VMware and vSAN but I really don't know if they are actually included or not in the new features. The licensing of vSAN and VMware for different editions of VxRail is not easy. 

I live in Brazil, and my customers are from Brazil. It is quite an expensive solution. It is more expensive than the traditional environment. 

It has a yearly subscription. It can be for one year, three years, or five years.

VxRail is not cheap, but it's not expensive either. Mainly it's for big enterprise customers. VxRail has its own or target customers and they know the value of this product; however, the hyper-converged solution is not for everyone. The good news is there are no hidden costs.

The licensing comes with the contract with Dell EMC. The solution is competitively priced but it is expensive. However, this is expected as we are a corporate enterprise and we need this environment.

VxRail is quite expensive and could be cheaper. I would say that the main difference between VxRail and the competition is cost. There may be some differences in features, but I would say that it's mainly the costs.

The solution can be pricey depending on the project. I do not think there are any additional costs to the standard license fees. 

Most of hyper-converged solutions require additional licenses for the virtualization layer (like VMware). Nutanix, for example, offers their solution (Acropolis) for free. So, you have to revisit your needs and budget.

If you already have VMware, you just have to convert the license and apply it to the VxRail.

Be mindful of your storage needs now and for the future.

The price is fair.