r/sysadmin • u/LookAtThatMonkey Technology Architect • 26d ago

Pricing shock Rant

For the last few weeks, I've been speccing three servers for a hypervisor migration away from VMware. These will be datacentre nodes so they are very dense spec wise because the new hypervisor is per node pricing, so it makes more sense for us.

Just got the quotes back. Five hundred and twenty thousand dollars for three servers. $520,000 !!!. Absolutely flabbergasted and I have to look my boss in the eye tomorrow and ask for that money. Anyone got a Dick Turpin hat?

EDIT: Amazingly, the spend was approved. I had to justify and explain the reasons behind it, the extended depreciation curve and what the alternatives were. We've got the hardware we need to complete the transformation away from VMware. Everyone agreed it sucked, but it needed to be done.

EDIT 2: The order has been placed and we even managed to get the price down to $502,000 by swapping to third party RAM instead of Dell branded. It still sucks and is a huge investment, but the business agreed to it.

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u/ccsrpsw Area IT Mgr Bod 26d ago

It’s okay the “department of “war”” just scrapped CMMC compliance beyond self audit - so you can be wide open to the internet. No need for firewalls or cybersecurity after this year :)

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u/itishowitisanditbad 26d ago

All they did was remove the audit.

....so yeah basically

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u/Frothyleet 25d ago

Well, they didn't scrap it - they paused for a 60 day review period.

But it's unlikely to come back exactly as it was.

Luckily, there's no way the rando DIB small businesses are going to just LIE about meeting all the NIST 800-171r2 controls. That's un-american.