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pbiquest
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5 years ago

Azure Cost Management Connector - Optional Parameters and RI Recommendations

Hi. I am working with the Azure Cost management Connector and have two questions that I have not been able to answers to from online documentation or forum posts. The only documentation I have come a...
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5 years ago

Hi pbiquest

 

I'm not sure what your expected outcome is for 'change it to reflect the different skus within a family', could you provide more details?

 

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pbiquest
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5 years ago

Hi and thank you for your response. 

 

Two options usually are usually available for RI recommendations:

  1. Non-normalized recommendations, where recommendations are broken down by actual usage for each machine size. This is what I want. Example: 1 x Standard_D16s_v3 and 2 x Standard_D4s_v3 in north eu region.
  2. Normalized: Recommendations are given in terms of an equivalent number of recommendations at the smallest machine type in a so-called size flexibility group:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/reserved-vm-instance-size-flexibility

Normalize usage can simplify many scenarios, as RI discounts can be shared across different sizes in a group. With the above usage example, the normalized recommendation would be (8 + 2 x 2) = 12 x Standard_D2s_v3 (ratio is used to convert sizes).

 

 

I need to create an intuitive link between recommendations and actual usage, and for this purpose I cannot work with normalized usage.