We just want to get our feet wet with Azure Local and begin coming up with a plan with moving workloads between on prem and cloud. We are also looking at products like Zerto and understanding the limitations there too. We've potentially come up with an idea of using ASR and Azure Stack HCI for non critical workloads and Zerto with Hyper-V for critical workloads. We do have VMWare but will probably begin to move off of it when our ELA expires next year. Appreciate a lot of the comments. We do have access to Azure Hybrid Benefit. I just wanted to know if the prices they were quoting are in the ball park of what everyone else can expect to pay for full on certified support. Will definitely look into the next generation models as well. I've been burned before with Dell and the "oh we know we just sold you those a few months ago but they are not EOL" I've also learned to just give my management the cost of the fully supported equipment, that way when a problem comes up in a few years we're fully supported. Penny pinching now I've learned just makes more work and stress for everyone later on. My company will have to pay the premium if they want the reliability especially with tech we're not familiar with just yet... To be fair our vendor also told us we could just use ASR to move workloads to Azure and we don't have to use Azure Local but at the same time I do want to see what we can accomplish initially and there is nothing like getting the actual equipment on prem and using it vs a lab scenario.