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Azure Local Microsoft Azure Local (L1) host service fee $119/core Azure Local (L1) with Windows Server subscription add-on $398/core Azure Local (L1) with Azure Hybrid Benefit $0/core Azure Local (L2) multi-rack, disaggregated or external storage $240/core Azure Local (L3) disconnected operations quote OEM license for Azure Local quote

Dell VxRail Dell Technologies VCF on VxRail $350/core VxRail with vSphere Foundation $150/core vSAN capacity add-on (with VxRail) $210/tib

H3C UIS New H3C Technologies UIS Standard (UIS Manager + CAS) + ONEStor Block Standard $500/socket UIS Standard + Enhancement Package + ONEStor Enterprise $650/socket

HPE PC3000 Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE Private Cloud PC3000 subscription (with VM Essentials) $1,000/socket HPE Morpheus VM Essentials $600/socket HPE Morpheus Software - Advanced $1,500/socket HPE Morpheus Software - Enterprise $3,000/socket

HPE SimpliVity Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE SimpliVity term licence - Low tier (up to 24 TiB) $4,000/node HPE SimpliVity term licence - High tier (over 24 TiB) $6,000/node

Huawei FusionCube Huawei FusionCube 1000H / 1000V $3,000/node FusionCube 1000D (Data) $4,000/node FusionCube Software $2,500/node

Nutanix NCI Nutanix Community Edition $0/free NCI Starter $160/core NCI Pro $300/core NCI Ultimate $475/core NCI-Edge Pro $350/vm

OpenShift Virt Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine (Standard) $4,700/node OpenShift Virtualization Engine (Premium) $7,000/node OpenShift Kubernetes Engine (bare-metal, Standard) $7,940/node OpenShift Container Platform (bare-metal, Standard) $8,380/node OpenShift Platform Plus (bare-metal, Premium) $21,960/node OpenShift Data Foundation Advanced (add-on) quote

Proxmox VE Proxmox Server Solutions No-subscription $0/free Community $138/socket Basic $424/socket Standard $630/socket Premium $1,261/socket

Sangfor HCI Sangfor Technologies aSV (hypervisor only) $30/core HCI (aSV + aSAN + aNET) $65/core HCI + aSEC + SCP $95/core

Scale Computing Scale Computing SC//HyperCore on edge appliances (HE100 / HE500) $1,000/node SC//HyperCore on HC-series appliances (HC1000 / HC3000 / HC5000) $2,500/node SC//HyperCore software on certified servers (HCL / VxRail reuse) $2,000/node

StarWind StarWind by DataCore Virtual SAN Free $0/free Virtual HCI Appliance Free $0/free Virtual SAN (subscription) $4,500/cluster Virtual HCI Appliance $3,000/node HCI Appliance $3,000/node

StorMagic StorMagic SvHCI $2,049/node SvSAN (subscription) $1,500/node SvSAN (perpetual) $614/node

SUSE Virt SUSE Harvester (open source) $0/free SUSE Rancher Suite (Standard) $10,091/node SUSE Rancher Suite (Priority) $13,455/node

Vates VMS Vates XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra (from sources) $0/free Essential $2,000/cluster Essential+ $4,000/cluster Pro $1,000/node Enterprise $1,800/node Pro + XOSTOR Pro (HCI) $1,800/node Enterprise + XOSTOR Enterprise (HCI) $3,000/node

VergeOS VergeIO VergeOS Production $12,352/node VergeOS Backup $2,045/node

VMware VCF/vSAN Broadcom (VMware) VMware Cloud Foundation $350/core VMware vSphere Foundation $150/core vSphere Enterprise Plus $120/core vSphere Standard $50/core vSAN capacity add-on $210/tib VMware Cloud Foundation Edge quote VMware ESXi (free hypervisor) $0/free

Windows Server S2D Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Datacenter (perpetual) $85/core Windows Server 2025 pay-as-you-go via Azure Arc $403/core Windows Server 2025 Standard (perpetual, no S2D) $15/core

Cisco HyperFlex Cisco HXDP Edge Advantage $2,000/node HXDP Datacenter Advantage $4,000/node HXDP Datacenter Premier $5,600/node

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