TCO Config
TCO Configuration Components
You can adjust the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) settings that Dr Migrate uses to generate financial reports. Whilst default settings are provided you can optionally adjust as desired.
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Adjust settings related to Azure costing, such as currency, target region and payment models.
Customizable Costing Properties:
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Modify on-premise benchmark data that is used to estimate the cost of your customer's environment.
Customizable Options:
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Azure Cost Config
Azure Cost Config allows you to configure the high level elements of your overall TCO, including Currency, Primary Azure Region and default Azure Payment Models. These settings will inform the settings that that Dr Migrate uses to price discovered VM’s.
Azure Payment Models
This section provides control of the difference payment modes to apply to virtual machines running in Azure separated by Prod and Non Prod workloads.
Additionally you can also choose which environments should be backed up or have disaster recovery by default.
Prod Vs Non Prod Split
As Rapid Mode does not step through uploading a customer’s CMDB you are provided with the option to indicate estimate the split between Prod and Non Prod servers. Dr Migrate will use this to forecast cost profiles between environments.
Hybrid Benefits
Dr Migrate’s TCO engine can help recommend the number of Software Assured licenses required to maximise Hybrid benefit savings.
Enter the number of Software Assured licensed cores in the provided input fields. These values will be used in the Hybrid Benefits section of Dr Migrate’s report to help minimize costs and maximize Hybrid environment benefits by providing more accurate recommendations.
For more information on Azure Hybrid Benefits see here
On-Premises Benchmark
Dr Migrate will by default estimate your customers On-Premise costs using industry benchmarks. The overall structure of this method is based on Azure TCO Cost Calculator, however instead of having to enter each line item, Dr Migrate, automatically populates based on the scan of your environment from Azure Migrate.
Each of these industry benchmarks are configurable, and the results will be reflected within the Dr Migrate’s reports.
You can choose to adjust default benchmark settings at an overall level - Total Cost Method, or at an individual line item.
Total Cost Method
As an example, if your customer pays a flat rate of a million dollars for their data centre yearly then you can override all calculations accordingly.
Detailed Cost Method
You can adjust one, or many individual line items depending.
- Select Detailed Cost Method
- Expand the cost item to configure and update the value in Customer Value field as desired.
How are Total costs calculated?
Total Cost overrides are distributed based off the associated relevant components. ie. Costs are distributed on a per core or per GB basis where relevant.