ECC 6.0 managment

Most of the functionality of ECC is paid for by capacity. Every time you add storage to a managed EMC array you will pay for a tier upgrade for the associated licenses.

I can't give you specifics on how much it costs every time you add disk because it has a lot to do with your sales agreement with EMC, but for a rough idea, start researching the GNP of some smaller countries and you should be in the right ballpark

In our case, for DMX storage approximately 5% of each disk order is for the actual hardware and the rest covers the licensing upgrade. Mind you, we get REALLY good discounts on the hardware.

Only 5% ? Waaaw.....
I'd switch to SymCLI completely if I were you

Yeah, but management wants us to do things through an interface that logs everything, and they also want charge back in the near future. StorageScope is going to make that MUCH easier.

As long as they pay for it, I wouldn't bother.
Possible pitfalls are: charge back on clusters, since each node will report the same storage as their own, while you probably only need to charge it once. The same goes for replicated storage. SRDF'd storage is probably no issue, since the R2's are presented to hosts on the other side, which is fine, but BCV's don't show up, unless they are masked to hosts.

There are ways around the BCV issue, and I have no problem with charging someone double for the clusters. They are a pain, and they should have to pay more to maintain them