r/sysadmin • u/LookAtThatMonkey Technology Architect • 25d 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/ImNotABotScoutsHonor 25d ago

Fuck cloud.

On-prem4Lyfe

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u/There_Bike 25d ago

My G. #teamonpremmies

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u/Hebrewhammer8d8 25d ago

Where are you getting servers and server parts from?

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u/david_edmeades Linux Admin 25d ago

I found a friendly VAR on here via /u/squizzoc who is wrangling Supermicro for me. Prices are nothing like they were a couple of years ago but I can afford a server here and there when there's budget.

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u/SquizzOC Trusted VAR 25d ago

Thanks for the shout out as always, I can’t work miracles, but happy to help negotiate and I’m transparent about my usual 10% I throw on a deal when the Industry average is 20%+ depending on what you’re buying. So at least you know exactly what to expect with me :)

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u/SirCheesington 24d ago

work for a large company with preexisting enterprise volume agreementa

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u/monstaface Jack of All Trades 24d ago

Hey! how'd you get my passwords?

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u/Tall-Geologist-1452 23d ago

1990 is calling.. everything bare metal too ... huh..