Configuring an optimize cloud plan

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For an overview of setting up plan scenarios, see Setting Up Plan Scenarios.

Scope

You can scope by:

Select scope to optimize wizard

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Cloud providers

    See how you can optimize all your AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud workloads.

  • Regions

    Focus the plan on a provider's region.

  • Resource groups

    Turbonomic for Government Standard discovers Azure resource groups. You can select one or more resource groups for the plan scope.

Optimization settings

Optimization settings

Choose from the optimization options. If you set a plan's scope to a resource group, Turbonomic for Government Standard 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.

Note:

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 for Government Standard a week to reflect accurate results in Optimize Cloud plans.

Discount settings

Reserved Instance Settings

  • 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.

    • Offering class

      Choose the offering class that corresponds to the RI types that you typically use in your environment.

    • Term

      Choose the payment terms for your discounts. Typically, longer term payment plans cost less per year.

    • Payment

      Choose your payment option.

      • All upfront – You make full payment at the start of the term.

      • Partial upfront – You make a portion of the payment at the start of the term, with the remain cost paid at an hourly rate.

      • No upfront – You pay at an hourly rate for the duration of the term.

  • For Discount Inventory, the discounts for the current scope are selected by default. Click Edit to make changes.

Import action mode

The import action mode setting allows you to configure a plan that respects any disabled actions defined in related automation policies. This configuration can help improve the reliability and consistency of your plan outcomes. You can access the setting by clicking Import action mode in the plan configuration toolbar. For on-prem plans, the setting is also available during the plan creation workflow.

The import action mode setting is available on a separate Import action mode page and includes the Import action mode from policy option. By default, this option is disabled.

  • Enabled (set to On)

    Your plan imports action mode settings from your real-time market automation policies. With these settings imported, the action mode settings from your policies are respected. This behavior can help ensure that your plan results more accurately reflect your automation policy settings. For example, if you have an automation policy that disables actions for an entity, such as VM moves, the plan that you are configuring now avoids generating those actions for that entity.

    The import action mode is supported for only VM, host, and storage entities. For these entities, Turbonomic for Government Standard applies the following order of precedence to determine the action mode for an action type.
    • Action mode in the plan configuration
    • Action mode in a user-defined automation policy
    • Action mode in the default automation policy
    Note: Start action modes are not respected in plans, regardless of whether the import action mode setting is enabled. For example, if a Start action mode is disabled for VMs, start actions can still be generated by a plan when import action mode is enabled.

  • Disabled (set to Off)

    The default behavior is in effect, and any action mode setting from your automation policies is ignored.

This setting is available for all on-prem, public cloud and container platform plans.