TCO Study: Dell EMC VxRail vs. DIY HCI using vSAN Readynodes Configuration

This paper presents the results of a three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) study comparing Dell EMC VxRail appliances and an equivalent do-it-yourself (DIY) solution of standalone server hardware and software from the VMware vSAN ReadyNode (hardware compatibility list) configurations. For both options, we modeled total hardware capital expense, total software capital expense and operational expense for small, medium and large clusters over a three-year period.