Configuring an optimize cloud plan
For an overview of setting up plan scenarios, see Setting Up Plan Scenarios.
Scope
You can scope by:
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Accounts
Choose AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, or Google Cloud projects as the plan's scope. The plan does not recommend discount purchases if you scope to this level. To optimize discount purchases for a limited scope, choose a Billing Family.
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Billing Families
Include discount purchases in the planning for a scope that is limited to a single billing family. The plan calculates discount purchases through the billing family's management account. Discount purchases are supported for AWS and Azure, but not Google Cloud.
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Cloud Providers
See how you can optimize all your AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud workloads.
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Resource Groups
Turbonomic discovers Azure resource groups. You can select one or more resource groups for the plan scope.
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Regions
Focus the plan on a provider's region.
Optimization settings
Choose from the optimization options. If you set a plan's scope to a resource group, Turbonomic optimizes services without recommending discount purchases.
If your goal is to purchase discounts for VMs at their current sizes, use the Buy VM Reservations plan type. For details, see Buy VM Reservations Plan.
If you turn on the Disable All Actions setting in the global default policy and then run an Optimize Cloud plan with VM scaling and discount purchases enabled, the plan results show inaccurate discount recommendations.
Turn off Disable All Actions to resolve this issue. After you turn off this setting, it will take Turbonomic a week to reflect accurate results in Optimize Cloud plans.
Discount settings
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Currently, Purchase RIs applies to only AWS and Azure. For AWS/Azure Profile, the settings that you have set up for real-time analysis are selected by default. You can change the settings to see how they affect costs.
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Offering class
Choose the offering class that corresponds to the RI types that you typically use in your environment.
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Term
Choose the payment terms for your discounts. Typically, longer term payment plans cost less per year.
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Payment
Choose your payment option.
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All upfront – You make full payment at the start of the term.
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Partial upfront – You make a portion of the payment at the start of the term, with the remain cost paid at an hourly rate.
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No upfront – You pay at an hourly rate for the duration of the term.
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For Discount Inventory, the discounts for the current scope are selected by default. Click Edit to make changes.