Exercise 2 – using the TCO calculator – Azure Cost Planning and Management

May 12, 2023

Exercise 2 – using the TCO calculator – Azure Cost Planning and Management

Exercise 2 – using the TCO calculator

This exercise will create a cost comparison; for example, a typical on-premises environment moving to Azure. You could substitute this with the details of an actual on-premises infrastructure and any workloads you have details of.

Task – accessing the TCO calculator

1. Open a browser and enter the following URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/tco/calculator.

Task – defining your workloads

2. From the Define your workloads section, click on the information icon next to each selected field.
3. From the Server section, select the following information or use your example data:

• • Enter a name for the workload or use the provided default.
  • Workload: Windows/Linux Server.
  • Environment: Virtual Machines.
  • Operating system: Windows.
  • Operating system license: Datacenter.
  • VMs: 100.
  • Virtualization: VMware.
  • Cores: 4.
  • Ram: 8.
  • Optimize by: Memory
  • Windows Server 2008/2008 R2: Off

4. Add any additional server workloads as required.
5. From the Databases section, enter the following information or use your example data:

• • Enter a name for the database, or use the provided default.
  • Source Database: Microsoft SQL Server.
  • License: Standard.
  • Environment: Virtual Machines.
  • Operating system: Windows.
  • Operating system license: Datacenter.
  • VMs: 15.
  • Virtualization: VMware.
  • Cores: 8.
  • RAM: 32.
  • Optimize by: Memory.
  • Windows Server 2008/2008 R2: Off.
  • Destination Service: SQL Database Managed Instance.
  • Managed instance tier: General purpose.
  • Managed instance cores: 8.
  • SQL Server storage: 100.
  • SQL Server backup: 100.

6. Add any additional databases as required.
7. From the Storage section, enter the following information or use your example data:

• • Enter a name for the storage or use the provided default
  • Storage type: Local Disk/SAN.
  • Disk type: SSD.
  • Capacity: 2 TB.
  • Backup: 2 TB.
  • Archive: 8 TB.
  • IOPS: 4,000.

8. Add additional storage as required.
9. From the Networking section, enter the following information or use your example data:

• Outbound bandwidth: 100 GB

10. Click Next.

Task – adjusting your assumptions

11. From the Adjust assumptions screen, review all the options and alter them as required. Alternatively, leave the default assumptions as is.
12. Click Next.

Task – viewing the report

13. From the View report screen, review the cost savings report.
14. You can modify your entries by scrolling to the bottom of the screen and clicking Back.
15. You can download, share, and save the report.

In this exercise, we created a cost comparison for an on-premises environment moving to Azure. Now, let’s summarize this chapter.