Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN
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Storage support cost is where nearly all cost of vendor support is. It costs vendors many times as much to support storage as it does CPUs or RAM.
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@scottalanmiller said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
@Dashrender said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
@scottalanmiller said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
VMware VSAN Support Cost: $25,440 ($1060 per CPU for each year after the first)
Wow - why even sell VSAN at that point - why don't they just do subscription and get over with it - wow that seems expensive. Is this in line with support contracts for other SAN products? I know it's hard to judge that because this is based on CPU (luckily not cores) where I'm assuming typical SAN support is more based upon capacity.
This is SO much cheaper. If you look at the cost of a lesser SAN that isn't as flexible, or as safe as VSAN, you'll see that the initial cost AND the support both cost more.
Well sure, it would almost have to be... the VSAN solution includes no hardware.
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@scottalanmiller said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
Storage support cost is where nearly all cost of vendor support is. It costs vendors many times as much to support storage as it does CPUs or RAM.
ROFLOL this is laughably obvious when you think about it.
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Wouldn't be hard to add StoreVirtual VSA to this compare - if you're interested, I can help. Licensing is pretty easy: 3 X 4TB bundle is $3,000 US List and the 10TB license is $3500 US List. Both of these include support and assume bring your own hardware.
If you're inclined to include it and need more information, drop me an email with what you need. With lots of people starting to take time off, might take me longer than normal but happy to help.
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@HPEStorageGuy said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
Wouldn't be hard to add StoreVirtual VSA to this compare - if you're interested, I can help. Licensing is pretty easy: 3 X 4TB bundle is $3,000 US List and the 10TB license is $3500 US List. Both of these include support and assume bring your own hardware.
Thanks, that would definitely good to add. You say it includes support... does that include five years of support? That's what this matrix is based off of (a number I was able to get from both vendors that is pretty reasonable for a time frame.)
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@scottalanmiller I gave you 3 years. I'll have to check on what 5 years costs. Will be later today - winter has hit and I'm out getting snow tires at Costco. This could take 3 years!
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@scottalanmiller - adding Simplivity and Nutanix to the mix might be interesting, but you would additionally have to factor in the cpu/ram resources being consumed by their VSA's (SAN being implemented as virtual machines with protocol overhead) which would require the use of higher end procs and larger RAM footprints to be able to run the same number of VM's at the same performance level as either Scale or VMWare VSAN. Seems to me the density implications would wind up having a direct impact on the bottom line prices of any of the VSA based offerings when comparing to the platforms that don't need one.
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@HPEStorageGuy said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
@scottalanmiller I gave you 3 years. I'll have to check on what 5 years costs. Will be later today - winter has hit and I'm out getting snow tires at Costco. This could take 3 years!
Good luck!
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@scottalanmiller The 5 year license includes 5 years of support. The 10TB 5 year LTU is $5835 US list.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
VMware VSAN Support Cost: $25,440 ($1060 per CPU for each year after the first)
Wow - why even sell VSAN at that point - why don't they just do subscription and get over with it - wow that seems expensive. Is this in line with support contracts for other SAN products? I know it's hard to judge that because this is based on CPU (luckily not cores) where I'm assuming typical SAN support is more based upon capacity.
Because that's not what vSAN costs for a 3 node cluster. The capital cost is 15K List for a 3 node cluster. I'm guessing he's bundling the first 3 years of support in or something and putting zero discounting on the cost.
This cost study is also using 4TB SATA drives which vSAN doesn't certify. Also the only 1.9TB drive I"m familiar with that Dell sells (this could have changed) is a PM863 that gets awful write latency consistency and is only certified for capacity usage not write cache. Beyond that you would be better served by 2 smaller write intensive SSD's. This cost study ignores the HCL, the design and sizing guide.
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@John-Nicholson said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware VSAN:
VMware VSAN Support Cost: $25,440 ($1060 per CPU for each year after the first)
Wow - why even sell VSAN at that point - why don't they just do subscription and get over with it - wow that seems expensive. Is this in line with support contracts for other SAN products? I know it's hard to judge that because this is based on CPU (luckily not cores) where I'm assuming typical SAN support is more based upon capacity.
Because that's not what vSAN costs for a 3 node cluster. The capital cost is 15K List for a 3 node cluster. I'm guessing he's bundling the first 3 years of support in or something and putting zero discounting on the cost.
This cost study is also using 4TB SATA drives which vSAN doesn't certify. Also the only 1.9TB drive I"m familiar with that Dell sells (this could have changed) is a PM863 that gets awful write latency consistency and is only certified for capacity usage not write cache. Beyond that you would be better served by 2 smaller write intensive SSD's. This cost study ignores the HCL, the design and sizing guide.
Because there is no good way to an apples to apples comparison. Yes the cost of both has the support for the term built in. And the need for higher cost, lower density drives for vSAN would not be favourable to the vSAN solution - so while it could follow the HCL, it would look as if I was attempting to skew the numbers to make the vSAN look bad. Most importantly, this gives the best cost analysis advantage to the vSAN, even at the cost of not being officially on the HCL. If you want HCL'd hardware exclusively, then the cost is higher. As this is only a cost, not a design, comparison I felt that that was the more important attribute. Should have been noted, though.
