The cost of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has increased recently with less licensing flexibility. It's now part of a larger bundle rather than a standalone product.
We generally sell the whole package from three to five years so that customers can forget about it. Approaching the end of contracts, customers may choose to extend support for another year if they lack budget to acquire the whole solution again.
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RecoverPoint's licensing is based on the number of virtual machines and the capacity that we are backing up, and the number of cores. It's between $5,000 and $30,000, depending on the licensing model and your environment. I think they even have something below $4,000. You also need to pay maintenance, which is about 10 percent of the price.
BI Project Manager/ Scrum Master at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Nov 4, 2020
Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size.
Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.
With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.
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Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.
The cost of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has increased recently with less licensing flexibility. It's now part of a larger bundle rather than a standalone product.
We generally sell the whole package from three to five years so that customers can forget about it. Approaching the end of contracts, customers may choose to extend support for another year if they lack budget to acquire the whole solution again.
The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven.
It is on the expensive side.
There are licensing costs for enterprise customers like the banking sector and oil and gas. The licensing costs are okay.
RecoverPoint's licensing is based on the number of virtual machines and the capacity that we are backing up, and the number of cores. It's between $5,000 and $30,000, depending on the licensing model and your environment. I think they even have something below $4,000. You also need to pay maintenance, which is about 10 percent of the price.
It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us.
There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have.
Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size.
This is an expensive product.
In comparison to other solutions, like Zerto, the pricing is quite high. It's not the cheapest solution.
This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive.