TCO Settings

Azure Costing Settings let you configure the region pricing, reserved-instance discounts and cost assumptions that drive your future-state calculations. Default pricing rarely matches a customer's real agreements, so tuning these settings is what makes every TCO figure trustworthy.

Getting started¶

TCO Settings has a left sub-nav with two areas: Azure Costing and On-Premises Benchmark. At the top of the screen, two actions apply across both:

• Save: store your changes.
• Sync Enterprise Pricing: pull negotiated Enterprise Agreement rates directly, so the model uses your contracted prices.

Set the Currency and Azure Location selectors first; these establish the pricing context for everything below.

Azure Costing¶

Azure Costing settings are split into two columns (Production Servers and Non-Production Servers) so you can apply different assumptions to each, for example reserved instances in production and Dev/Test pricing in non-production. Each column holds two groups of settings. To see how servers are assigned to Production or Non-Production by default, see Default Environment Classification.

Cost Optimization¶

Not all settings appear in both columns. Azure Hybrid Benefit and Use Workload Optimized SKUs are Production-only; Dev/Test Pricing is Non-Production-only.

Backup and Recovery¶

Security and Monitoring¶

These two toggles apply independently to each column (Production and Non-Production).

Networking¶

The Networking setting is shared across both Production and Non-Production environments.

Treatment Savings Assumptions¶

Cloud hosting costs depend on the target architecture. When not fully defined, Dr Migrate estimates costs by calculating a baseline Azure IaaS cost, then applying default savings for the selected treatment. These sliders apply across both columns; adjust them to reflect expected savings for each modernisation path.

Hybrid Benefits (optional)¶

Beyond the Azure Hybrid Benefit toggle, Dr Migrate's TCO engine can recommend how many Software Assured licences you need to maximise Hybrid Benefit savings. Enter your licensed core counts here and Dr Migrate uses them in the Hybrid Benefits section of the report to refine recommendations and keep costs to a minimum. Leave them blank to skip; the section is optional.

AVS Settings (optional)¶

If any workloads are tagged for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) hosting, these settings are applied to all of them when costing. Dr Migrate ships sensible defaults (shown below) that you can tailor to the customer's preferences.

Two further options account for existing customer investments when costing AVS:

• Customer will BYO VMware VCF license: if the customer has existing VCF licences, AVS costing uses those instead of pricing in new VCF licences.
• Already running at least one AVS cluster in the same Azure target region: ensures the costing accounts for existing AVS infrastructure rather than standing up a new cluster.

On-Premises Benchmark¶

The On-Premises Benchmark sub-nav lets you tune the baseline current-cost assumptions Dr Migrate uses to estimate today's spend. Twelve cost categories cover hardware, virtualisation, storage, backup, licensing, disaster recovery, data centre, electricity, networking, and monitoring. Each uses industry benchmark defaults scaled to your scanned environment; you can override individual line items or an entire category so the current-cost baseline reflects the customer's real data centre costs.

Panel controls¶

Four controls sit at the top of the On-Premises Benchmark screen and apply across all categories.

Cost categories and line items¶

The panel shows a card for each of the 12 cost categories. Each card displays the category's calculated annual cost, its share of total on-premises spend, and a Default or Custom tag. Custom means at least one line item in that category has been changed from its benchmark value.

Click any category card's pencil icon to open its line-item editor. The drawer lists every individual cost item for that category in a table. At the bottom of each drawer:

• Override cost breakdown with total cost method (toggle): when on, a Total Category Cost (€) field appears and Dr Migrate uses that single figure as the category total, bypassing all individual line-item estimates. A warning is shown while this mode is active.
• Reset to Default Values: restores every line item in that category to its benchmark default.

The line items for each category are listed below. Each item ships with an industry benchmark default; you can accept it as-is or enter the customer's actual figure. The Type column shows how the value is used: Cost (€) is a monetary figure, Percent (%) is a ratio applied to another figure, and General IT Info is a multiplier or count used in the calculation formula.

Hardware Cost¶

Virtualization Cost¶

Storage Cost¶

Backup Cost¶

Windows License Cost¶

SQL License Cost¶

Disaster Recovery Cost¶

Data Center Cost¶

Electricity Cost¶

Networking Cost¶

Endpoint Protection Cost¶

Alerting and Monitoring Cost¶