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As we noted on the previous page, the retail price of each single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 server we used in our testing is $32,974.43. This is $13,078.57, or 28.4 percent, lower than the retail price of each dual- socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server, $46,053.00.
Each Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 server we tested had one 32-core processor, while each of the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers we tested had two 18-core processors for a total of 36 cores. This means that in addition to spending less on hardware, a company that invests in the Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 configuration we tested would also have lower licensing and support costs for any software that uses a per-socket pricing model (such as VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN) or a per-core pricing model (such as Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server). For our Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 test cluster, the four-year licensing and support costs for these four software packages would be $1,449,234.00. This is $229,722.00, or 13.6 percent less than the $1,678,956.00 licensing and support costs the HPE cluster would incur.7
The chart below presents the combined hardware and four-year software costs for the two clusters. The cost for the cluster of single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 servers is $268,957.71 less, or 14.8 percent less, than that of the cluster of dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers.
7 Four-year software licensing and support costs for Dell EMC cluster include $73,920 for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Da- tacenter (48 two-core packages @ $1,540 each), $1,319,808 for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise (48 two-core packages @ $27,496 each), $21,573 for VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 Enterprise Plus (three single-socket licenses with production support @ $7,191 each), and $33,933 for VMware vSAN Enterprise (three single-socket licenses with production support @ $11,311 each). Four-year software licensing and support costs for HPE cluster include $83,160 for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (54 two-core packages @ $1,540 each), $1,484,784 for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Enterprise (54 two-core packages @ $27,496 each), $43,146 for VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 Enterprise Plus (six single-socket licenses with production support @ $7,191 each), and $67,866 for VMware vSAN Enterprise (six single-socket licenses with production support @ $11,311 each).