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Technology costs can seem daunting, especially when you’re acquiring new technologies and platforms. However, choosing known and proven platforms that your staff are familiar with, such as Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and VMware vSphere virtualization platform, could help to mitigate some onboarding costs.
For this report, we wanted to estimate the cost of the solution we tested, a three-node cluster of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers running a recent VMware vSphere version and VMware Tanzu. Including vSphere and Tanzu Basic gives your company a good head start on their way to app modernization, containerization, and the benefits those changes bring. Plus, vSphere and Tanzu are likely known platforms for your DevOps teams.
Using publicly available retail pricing data, we estimate that purchasing Tanzu and the three-server, six- processor solution we tested would cost approximately $161,830 USD.3 If you already had these servers in a VMware virtualized environment, you could purchase the Tanzu Basic license for only $17,910.4 In Table 1, we break down the cost of the entire solution we tested for both scenarios. The entire solution is available for purchase through Dell.
Table 1: Publicly available pricing information for our solution.
If you consider that members of your IT staff might know or have worked with the key technologies of this solution, supporting Tanzu and containerized apps with an investment like this could deliver solid value for your organization.
3 On April 19, 2021, we obtained a reseller quote to closely match the system we tested for the purposes of the cost discussion. The differences between our reseller quote and our tested system were minor and as follows:
4 VMware Store, “VMware Tanzu Basic - Per CPU,” accessed April 21, 2021, https://store-us.vmware.com/vmware-tanzu-basic-per-cpu-5471172000.html.