Working with buy VM reservations plan results

After the buy VM reservations runs, you can view the results to see discount and optimization opportunities for your cloud environment.

Viewing the results

The plan results include the following charts.

Cloud cost comparison

This chart highlights changes to your existing discount coverage and utilization if you execute all the actions that the plan recommends. Actions include increasing coverage or purchasing additional instance types at a discounted rate. Your cloud provider will adjust discount allocations when the actions have completed.

Analysis evaluates ways to increase your current discount coverage so you can take full advantage of discounted pricing.
The plan can recommend purchase actions to reduce your costs further. The analysis looks at historical VM usage and uptime to arrive at the number of instance types you should purchase.

You can compare current and after-action costs, including on-demand compute, discounted compute, and total costs. Purchase actions increase your discounted compute cost, but can lower your on-demand compute cost significantly as discount coverage increases. The end result is a reduction to your total cost.

Virtual machine mapping

This chart shows the instance types for the VMs included in the plan.

Click Show Changes to see details for each VM with discount coverage changes. The table maps VMs to instance types, and shows how changes in discount coverage can reduce on-demand cost.

Discount inventory

This chart lists the cloud provider discounts discovered in your environment. For a tabular listing, click Show All at the bottom of the chart. In the tabular listing, you can see if a discount expired before the specified purchase date.

Recommended RI purchases

Turbonomic can recommend purchasing instance types at a discounted rate to help you increase the percentage of VMs covered by discounted pricing and reduce on-demand costs. This chart shows your pending purchases. Download the list of purchases and then send it your cloud provider or representative to initiate the purchase process.

Click Show All to see a table with details for each discount.

The table shows the properties, up-front cost, and break-even period for each discount. The break-even period is the time at which savings will exceed the up-front cost, rounded to the month. The Cost Impact column indicates the monthly savings you would realize when you buy a specific discount.

When you choose one or more check boxes, the total count, up-front cost, and savings appear first.

Viewing plan actions

Click the Plan Actions tab to view a list of actions that you need to execute to achieve the plan results.

Re-running the plan

You can run the plan again with the same or a different set of configuration settings. This runs the plan scenario against the market in its current state, so the results you see might be different, even if you did not change the configuration settings.

Use the toolbar for the Configuration section to change the configuration settings.

RI Settings

Update your purchase settings to see how they impact results. For example, you can configure a longer timeframe so that the plan can include additional VM usage data in its analysis. For details, see Purchase RIs.
Discount Inventory

Use the default selection or any of the available discounts for your scope.

Note:

It is not possible to change the scope of the plan in the Plan Page. You must start over if you want a different scope. To start over, click the More options icon (), and then select New Plan.

When you are ready to re-run the plan, click Run Again.