Lower the TCO of VMware and x86 workloads
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Overview
Pricing options to meet your business needs
IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions offers a variety of pricing options to move and modernize your VMware workloads. Choose either client-managed, dedicated infrastructure or IBM-managed, shared infrastructure to meet your scalability and cost-efficiency needs.
No-cost offer
Shared
Take advantage of a three-month, USD 500 credit for new or existing clients — including on-demand or reserved consumption models, in addition to any Veeam consumption for backup and replication. Credit will expire after three months, at which point all costs are the responsibility of the user. Any costs incurred beyond the USD 500 credit prior to the three-month expiration is also the responsibility of the user.
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Lower the TCO of VMware and X86 workloads
Use a no-cost Akasia assessment to see a TCO comparison of on-premises environments to the top public cloud providers.
Shared pricing
Pricing changes effective 1 October 2021
Microsoft Windows license changes from per month to per hour - per vCPU per hour USD 0.0193
On demand
Compute resources are made available to you on an as-needed basis and you’re billed hourly.
| Capacity | Dallas | Frankfurt |
|---|---|---|
| Base VDC charge (monthly) | USD 100 | USD 100 |
| Per vCPU (hourly) | USD 0.0111 | USD 0.0122 |
| Per RAM (hourly) | USD 0.0124 | USD 0.0137 |
Reserved (monthly)¹
Reserve compute capacity needs with an up-front reservation in a monthly billing model, guaranteeing the resources are available when you need them.
| Capacity | Dallas | Frankfurt |
|---|---|---|
| Per vCPU (monthly) | USD 7.24 | USD 7.96 |
| Per RAM (monthly) | USD 8.03 | USD 8.83 |
¹ 730 hours = 1 month
Add-on
Other than compute, all resources such as storage and egress are billed based on use. This applies to both On-demand and Reserved consumption models.
| Capacity | Cost |
|---|---|
| Veeam backup license² | USD 13.00 |
| IBM Cloud® Block Storage 1 GB (hourly) | USD 0.000164 |
| IBM Cloud® Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly) | USD 0.000041 |
² Using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared as a Veeam Cloud Connect Replication Target has no Veeam licensing charge.