Run the numbers

Run the numbers: what your virtualization platform costs, next to Basalt

What the status quo is costing your organization

VMwareBasaltSince you arrived$0.18$0.02Per month$36,800$4,832Per year$441,600$57,984Management cost/year$195,840$19,584

Of that $441,600/year, $245,760 is VMware's own license and $195,840 is 2,880 hours of estimated management overhead at $68/hour, fully loaded (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), not just the sticker price.

Your own assumptions, live, not a quote for either platform. Basalt is $800 per server, per year, up to 100 servers; above that it's a custom quote (see Pricing & licensing).

What that number actually buys

Where the funds can go

Three lenses on the same delta above: change your own numbers there and every figure below moves with them.

Budget

$383,616/year

The delta above, freed up for security, modernization, or mission systems.
Measured in dollars
People

2.3 engineers/year

The fully-loaded engineer-equivalent of that same delta, assuming $165,000 fully loaded, illustrative, not a published benchmark.
Measured in FTEs
Time

2,880 hrs/year

The recurring management hours VMware’s control-plane-per-cluster architecture demands (patch cycles, STIG upkeep, per-cluster config) at $68/hour, fully loaded (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). The hours themselves are an illustrative estimate, not a published benchmark.
Measured in hours, not hosts
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