What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Unity XT?

Dell Unity XT is a mid-range product. It is priced at around or under $50,000. This could be a concern for some customers.

Pricing is a bit on the higher side and lacks transparency.

The solution’s pricing is competitive. Since we buy in bulk, we get equally good prices.

The basic licenses and software are included in the package. If there's a need for additional recovery tools or anything else, you can order them separately. However, normally, all required software and licenses are already included.

Commercial side is not involved.

It is an average priced solution.

I rate Dell Unity XT’s pricing a nine out of ten.

The pricing structure offers a favorable balance between the cost and the variety of features offered.

Dell Unity XT's prices are very competitive compared to HP MSA2000, an entry-level product and another higher-level storage box. Compared to the prices of the storage boxes offered by HP, Dell's prices are competitive. All the licenses are included from day one of your purchase of the product, so you don't have to buy licenses separately. There are no additional costs to be paid for the maintenance of the solution.

It's an expensive solution, particularly for medium companies. One device costs about 30,000 euros. The support contract is quite expensive as well. We are currently looking for other lower-cost solutions.

I'm not sure of the exact cost of the solution.

We have to apply for a license for each system.

I think everything is overpriced in the storage area so it's difficult to know what reasonable means for these products.

We typically sell Unity XT as a package solution containing four nodes. It costs about $150,000 for four nodes.

Before setting up this solution we would advise that organizations prepare the physical equipment that will be required for on-premises deployment, as well as gathering information on the data to be migrated. This will allow for an average deployment time of one to two days.

While the cost is a little high, it provides great peace of mind. I'd rate the solution five or six out of ten in terms of affordable pricing.

Most licenses for the solution are free but upgrades are available when adding additional software or storage. The solution little or no cost so I rate it a ten out of ten.

The price of Dell Unity XT could improve. However, it is a one-time purchase.

The license is not required, but we must renew the support every year, every two years. I believe it is overpriced. I don't have a lot of experience with other vendors, but I believe it is expensive. I would rate the price a three out of five. PowerStore support is more efficient now that I have experience with it. I won't go back based on the cost of support; PowerStore is the most straightforward.

From a pricing perspective, this solution is comparable to others on the market.

This solution offers great pricing.

It's extremely competitive. We checked both HP and Dell and we determined that Dell EMC was a better option. Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis. I don't recall the amount because that part, the financial part, is handled by the finance team. We are not aware of this, we are technical evaluators.

There is not a license required for the use of the solution. We purchased a maintenance contract.

There is an annual charge for the license of this product. It has better pricing than its competitor: Pure Storage.

The main factors to consider are space, availability, business continuity, performance, and IOPS. The Unity XT box is very strong. It doesn't break. The MTBF time is very large so you don't have to worry about faults or outages in your operations. It is a very complete platform. Dell EMC wrote a new OS for storage, but I haven't seen it yet.

I liked the price point when we purchased it.

Pricing could always be better. Dell likes to charge a premium price for these products. I would say the major complaint with pricing is that Dell EMC comes to us and gives us a an initially high price. We usually need to go back and forth to negotiate the price to a more reasonable level. We are not going to just say, 'Yes,' because we are out of time." I don't know if the discounting structure needs to be better or more consistent. Having worked at Dell EMC previously, I know they have discount floors, etc. I just wish they would note, "This company gets a 55% discount." Just be consistent with it. Company-wide, we buy all our storage from them. They should be able to give us something a little more structured.

This solution is a good price for what you get.

The solution is very expensive. There are a lot of advantages with EMC Unity XT, there's no limitation. When you bought the product, the software is included and there's no limitation of the terabyte in the licenses.

The price of Dell EMC Unity XT is higher compared to other solutions. The price should be less expensive.

The setup is rather straighforward.

The pricing is quite good. We find it fair. It's not too expensive.

This product is suitable for customers who are looking for simplicity and cost-effective SAN storage products

While it has a good price to start, they could always make it cheaper. We bought extended warranties out of the box because our customer has a bad habit of managing warranties. The service for the small things that we have had are always handled very quickly.

Our CAPEX was close to $42,000 and operating costs are below $1000.

The cost of it is good for us. We purchased a five-year warranty.

Our costs are roughly $200,000 a year.

Licensing is a little bit confusing. Going through everything with them, there are a lot of line items to go over. Every single thing is broken down into a line item, and it starts to get really confusing in terms of what we're actually purchasing when it comes to the product.

We bought the box of all the licensing that we needed and not run into anything where we would need any additional licenses from Dell EMC Unity. VMware is a different story, but as far as Unity goes, it's not been an issue. Currently, we buy directly from Dell EMC. We've tried going through resellers before, but we've found that if we go directly through Dell EMC, we get a good a price from being with the government. So, we are lucky there. We have that working relationship with the folks at Dell EMC, and sometimes I even get to run into the rep or specialist at events, which is great. I don't get that with a reseller.

The pricing is reasonable. We're using the Flex on Demand pricing. It's really good for us when we pay for what we use. It made it easy to get it inside since it's an OpEx and instead of CapEx expense. I can't say enough about the Flex on Demand because it gives you the agility you need. You can get it in there so easily. You don't have to be fighting with the CFO about how much it costs. It's a lot easier.

The pricing is right in line with competitors.

The pricing is competitive. We miss some of the feature functionality that we had with the XtremeIOs but it's certainly suitable for the purpose.

Regarding the licensing, that was easy. As far as recurring costs go, all that is understood, what we need to keep in place. If we grow and scale, we also understand a license comes with that, too. In terms of integrating it with our existing apps, there was no additional cost, nothing we didn't expect.

As far as simplicity of ownership goes, I don't think there is anything aside from the maintenance licensing.

Licensing has been quite difficult. It doesn't always auto-license. About half the time, when I provision one, I have to contact Service to get a license, or even go to our account manager to help get it straightened out.

Go with the virtual appliance versus the hardware.

Dell EMC has a great portal for the licensing. It's very logical and easy to license. We integrated it with VMware vSphere at no additional cost. As we moved into VMware vSphere, this is what we bought to go with it for our storage performance.

While Dell EMC is costly, I don't have any complaints about their licensing model.

Licensing is fine. We worked with a sales rep to purchase our Unity.

Its biggest valuable feature is its price point for the amount of storage and performance you get. It's a sweet spot. It's cheaper than the other SANs out there, but performs well enough. It fits that nice, middle-ground portfolio. If your small office or data center needs a couple petabytes, or just lots and lots of storage, it works great. Or if you need just a couple of hundred terabytes worth of storage, it works great. The price point hits that right spot.

Because of the attractive price, we were able to get rid of more expensive arrays, standardize, and get rid of a lot of spinning disks. We also got rid of more expensive flash that we weren't properly utilizing.

The solution should be cheaper.

Simplicity of ownership is a no-brainer: * Obtaining a warranty is easy. * The price is very reasonable. * As far as licensing goes, I love how VMware works with Dell EMC Unity. It's great. They work hand in hand. They have made it so simple.

We purchased our Unity in September 2017. It was a simple process. We budgeted for it in the prior year. Then, we had the funds to take care of what we wanted to purchase.

The Dell EMC Data Protection license covers everything, like a one stop shop. All our options are covered.

Pricing was competitive compared to other products on the market. Among the ones we considered, Unity came in with the best price. Compared to other EMC platforms, Unity is nice because it is all-inclusive, in terms of the licensing model. That's unique for them, compared to other manufacturers. It is beneficial. We could use replication, native, right out-of-the-box.

The price is up a little bit from what we used to pay so I'm hoping that it's a little bit of a better system than the VNXe was. But I still think it's a good value. It's new, so I'm sure there's room for the pricing to drop. We did have an issue with licensing once but we were able to reach out to the licensing group and do an online chat. They helped instantly, so that was nice.

It was easy to order. We are a big Dell shop, so it was easy to purchase and get it in place, then up and running.

When you look at what Dell EMC is compared to, like NetApp, they're all priced pretty similarly. I think the pricing of the hybrid model is good. Obviously, we would want cheaper prices but you can't get everything.

no clue. I'm technical, I don't do prices