2019-11-27T07:57:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Windows Server Failover Clustering?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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BL
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2023-11-15T09:59:37Z
Nov 15, 2023

There is no extra charge except a service fee for some professional work. I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

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TA
Real User
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2023-07-06T14:29:00Z
Jul 6, 2023

I rate the pricing a two out of ten.

NI
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2023-06-30T13:55:36Z
Jun 30, 2023

I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.

SK
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2022-10-20T17:15:30Z
Oct 20, 2022

It's like IAF, it's a part of the Windows server license. So if you acquire the Windows server license, you will also get all of the Windows services licenses. It's not a product that you can download and install. It is the feature that you activate in the Windows server.

MR
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2022-01-18T08:34:42Z
Jan 18, 2022

We are on an annual license to use this solution.

KT
Real User
2020-07-15T07:11:40Z
Jul 15, 2020

The licensing is kind of convoluted. We have to pay licensing costs twice. Once because we're a software as a service (SaaS) company where people access our servers. I have to get the service provider license purchased. I purchased that from Dell, but it's a Microsoft license subscription and it's about $150 a month. The second licensing we have to worry about is surrounding our other licenses as a Microsoft partner, which is actually mostly free for us. That's not bad, however, that's only because we're a Microsoft partner. Otherwise, for our internal business servers, we'd have to purchase another license. The clustering itself is free with Windows. Therefore, if I buy the Windows licenses it has it on the VMware. However, if I buy that license and a licensed server, then the license comes with a server as far as the clustering. It's confusing. On top of that, if we wanted to go with the Microsoft hyper-converged environment, then our costs go through the roof. It just gets crazy expensive due to the fact that the data center version is so expensive and that's their hyper-converged solution. A hyper-converged solution comes with the Windows Server, however, it's a set data center version, so the price escalates quickly.

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RK
Real User
2019-11-27T07:57:00Z
Nov 27, 2019

Unlike twenty years ago, the setup of a failover cluster is a straightforward process which can be automated easily. The functionality is included in Windows Server licences.

Windows Server Failover Clustering provides infrastructure features that support the high-availability and disaster recovery scenarios of hosted server applications such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange. If a cluster node or service fails, the services that were hosted on that node can be automatically or manually transferred to another available node in a process known as failover.
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