CapEx vs Subscription: TCO Modeling for Hyper-V & Azure Local & AVS
Which stack is cheapest over five years for a 100 VM footprint? A detailed TCO analysis of Hyper-V, Azure VMware Solution, and Azure Local.
Introduction In our previous blog post, we explored why organizations are reconsidering their virtualization strategy post-VMware and highlighted the often-overlooked value of Windows Server Failover Clustering with Hyper-V. Now, in this first follow-up post of the "Beyond the Cloud: The Case for On-Premises Virtualization" series, we dive into the financial side of that decision. Specifically, we will compare the five-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for three possible platforms to run a 100-Virtual Machine (VM) workload: