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We have a datacenter license which isn't really that expensive, relatively speaking. Windows isn't the expensive part. It's everything else. Our SAN is expensi
by bluedino 6y ago
We have a datacenter license which isn't really that expensive, relatively speaking. Windows isn't the expensive part. It's everything else.
Our SAN is expensive. Easily 10x the cost of the raw storage.
VMware is expensive. Backup software, management software, Exchange, our wireless network solution, our MDM solution, that's all expensive.
RHEL isn't free either.
- pickle-wizard 6y agoYou are not kidding on the price of SAN. I just started a pilot program with the iXsystems TrueNAS, which is the supported enterprise version of FreeNAS. It was easily a 10th the price of everyone else I looked at. Plus the support contact was inexpensive. Now if I could just figure out something about our VMware licensing. I've looked at RHEV, but we have a lot of automation built around VMware. It will be very expensive to switch.
- ThinkBeat 6y agoThe SAN would be equally expensive in any OS context would it not? The few times I have been peripherally involved with acquiring on-site enterprise SAN storage the prices have been out of this world but not every dependent on what the OS accessing the thing is