We picked up a 4 node vSAN cluster with licensing for 100 users for Horizon Enterprise all in for just under $ 100 k . Add in a couple 10 gbaset switches and you ' re at $ 115 k . The licensing alone was $ 50 k so halve that and possibly drop down to Advanced and you ' re down to $ 85 k or so . It ' ll have more compute , memory and storage all while having HA and redundancy . It also has scale ability where another node or two can be easily added if growth exceeds current capacity , this this setup leaves plenty of capacity . vSAN is a bit more involved to setup but personally I haven ' t found it vastly more complex . It ' s really just a new way of doing things . Make sure to stick with the HCL . Horizon is the software that will take more time to get acquainted with .