Case Studies

Real infrastructure, real savings

End-of-life hardware and runaway licensing don't have to mean a seven-figure refresh. Here's how a virtualization- and open-source-first approach delivers the same capability for a fraction of the cost.

Networking · VyOS

12 EOL Juniper routers → VyOS virtual routers

A customer's twelve Juniper routers had reached end-of-life / end-of-support. Their vendor's path forward was a full hardware refresh — over $1M in new routers plus a tenfold jump in annual support. Instead, we migrated every physical router to a VyOS virtual router running in their existing hypervisor environment — no new hardware required.

Vendor hardware refresh

New Juniper hardware (12 routers)$1,000,000
Annual support & licensing$120,000 / yr
5-year total$1,600,000

DynaLake — VyOS migration

Migration to VyOS virtual routers$250,000
New hardware required$0
5-year total$250,000
$1,350,000 saved ~84% lower 5-year cost $870,000 saved in year one
Virtualization · Proxmox

VMware licensing shock → Proxmox VE

After a post-acquisition licensing change, a client's VMware renewal jumped to roughly $150,000 per year for the same cluster. We converted their VMware environment to Proxmox VE on the servers they already owned — eliminating the recurring licensing entirely while preserving HA and live migration.

Stay on VMware

Annual licensing renewal$150,000 / yr
Migration cost$0
5-year total$750,000

DynaLake — Proxmox VE

VMware → Proxmox conversion$80,000
Ongoing licensing$0
5-year total$80,000
$670,000 saved ~89% lower 5-year cost Reused existing servers
Storage · Ceph

Aging SAN at end-of-service → Ceph

A proprietary SAN was going end-of-service, and the vendor's replacement carried a $400,000 price tag plus ongoing array support. We built a scale-out Ceph cluster on commodity servers — no per-array licensing, and capacity that grows by simply adding nodes.

Replacement SAN

New SAN hardware$400,000
Annual array support$60,000 / yr
5-year total$700,000

DynaLake — Ceph cluster

Ceph build on commodity servers$180,000
Per-array licensing$0
5-year total$180,000
$520,000 saved ~74% lower 5-year cost Grows by adding nodes

Figures are representative of typical DynaLake engagements; actual costs and savings vary by environment.

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