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To access the Designer, ‘click’ on the ‘Designer’ button in the top right-hand corner of the screenscreen
A new window will open, allowing you to create, or edit a Design.
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| To edit an existing design, [1] select the design from the dropdown menu, and ‘click’ Edit Design | 
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If you want to create a new design, [2] check the box next to Create a New Design, and enter a name for your design. Next, [3] select a base design that you wish to use as a starting point, and ‘click’ Create Design |
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The center of the Designer presents the same information, as the Assess Dashboard.
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In the middle is the Annual Cost, along with the Infrastructure Summary, underneath is the details chart for Summary, Compute, Storage, Network, and License.
| On the left-hand side are the various pre-built Workload and Hardware focused designs that are available for you to adjust, along with your infrastructure breakdown underneath. Changes made in the Designer can be applied to your entire infrastructure, a group of nodes, or a single machine to ensure workload needs are met. |
On the right-hand side panel are all the available tuning options. Here, you can change your Pricing Plan and Region, apply any previously negotiated discounts, and make changes to the Compute, Storage, and Network aspects of your infrastructure. We will look more closely at each tuning tab within this document, and explore how the changes will potentially affect your annual cost. | 
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Once finished, you can save any changes made by clicking Save Draft and continue working or finalize your changes and Build a Design. The Force Rebuild button is to be used in the event that you edit an existing design. |
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Please note, Reset All will revert back to the original design configuration
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When completed, you can view the updated design by selecting it from the dropdown on the left-hand side of the screen. | |
AWS OLA Default Designs
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1. Multi-Tenant SQL Service License Mobility through SA: View the savings associated with BYOL licenses to standard., Multi-Tenant EC2 Instances as part of the customers current Software Assurance agreement. 2. Dedicated Instance: View the cost and performance of moving the selected machine to a Dedicated Instance within AWS. |
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3. Dedicated Instance with BYOL: View the savings associated with BYOL MSDN or SQL licenses to Dedicated Instances in AWS 4. Dedicated Host with SQL: View the savings associated with BYOL MSDN or SQL licenses to Dedicated Hosts in AWS | |
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Optimise the cost and performance of the assessed infrastructure by reducing the number of hardware threads and/or disabling Hyperthreading where possible. This, in turn can lead to a decrease in Compute Costs while ensuring any SQL licensing requirements are met. |
1. Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Threads: Reduce the number of hardware threads or disable hyperthreading to lower cost while still ensuring the necessary performance benchmarks are met. 2. Optimize Number of Threads: Suggests an instance with the fewest number of hardware threads necessary to meet the performance needs of the assessed workload. 3. Disable Hyperthreading: Will only recommend instances where Hyperthreading is disabled by default. Useful in scenarios where a customer is concerned about any potential security issues related to Hyperthreading. |
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Populated directly from AWS and can be applied to the entire infrastructure or an individual machine. All Optimal Pricing Plans are specific to Cloudamize. When selecting these Pricing Plans, the Cloudamize Platform will compare the Optimal ‘option’ against AWS ‘On-Demand’ pricing, and force the Pricing Plan which is more cost efficient. |
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Region
Any region offered by AWS can be selected to recalculate the results and receive recommendations only for offerings in that region. Select from the drop-down list in the Designer panel | 
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Apply a percent discount to individual machines by adjusting the slider under the Discount label. This feature is useful when looking to remove the cost of a machine that will not be migrated without necessarily removing the machine from the assessment results. |
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Save Changes or Build Design
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Once finished, you can save any changes made by clicking Save Draft and continue working or finalize your changes and Build a Design. The Force Rebuild button is to be used in the event that you edit an existing design. |
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Note, Reset All will revert back to the original design configuration |
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● Select the option for CPU and Instance Family to adjust the target peak CPU threshold (Service Level Target) and to select which instance families can be recommended. Get started by selecting CPU and Instance Family. ● You can adjust the Target Peak CPU Threshold by moving the slider to select a value between 1% and 99%. (Default setting is (80%) ● Check the boxes next to each Instance Family you would like to receive recommendations for. | |
Please note, SLT (Service Level Target) is the target peak CPU threshold applied by Cloudamize when making recommendations. | |
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● Select the option for Instance Type to force the selected machine or infrastructure to a specific instance type. After selecting this option, click the drop-down list to view instance types available in the region you have selected under pricing plan options | 
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| Analyze Type (Compute) | |
| ● To choose between Cloudamize Algorithm, 2nd SD and 3rd SD, use the drop-down menu |
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Storage Capacity Scaling
● You can scale the Storage Capacity for the selected machine or infrastructure by adjusting the slider at the top of the Storage Tuning controls. ● You can scale the occupancy of your storage based on known occupancy. Changes made using this slider will update storage capacity recommendations. |
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● Using this tool, you can select the maximum number of disks RAIDed together in any given AWS storage option. This section can also be used to eliminate specific storage options by setting the number of RAIDed disks to zero |
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● Use this section to select bucketless provisioning, or consider credit buckets when provisioning storage in each AWS storage option |
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| Analyze Type (Storage) | |
| You can choose between Cloudamize Algorithm (95th percentile), 2nd Standard Deviation, and 3rd Standard Deviation for how Cloudamize calculates recommendations for Storage. |  |
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