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The Cloudamize Designer can be used to run ‘What if’ scenarios by customizing regions, pricing plans, insurance types and families, storage options, and more. These changes can be applied to individual machines , or the entire infrastructure.
You can edit existing designs , or quickly create as many new designs as needed without losing any of your previous results.
To Steps to navigate to access the Designer, ‘click’ on the ‘Home’ button at the top right-hand corner of the screen, and then click on the 'Designer' option pointing an arrow to it.
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It will redirect to the page as shown below, To access the designer features click on 'Open Classic Console'
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As a next step, click on the 'View Details as shown in the below image to access the designer option
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Next, click on the Dashboard tab which is at the top right of the page and click on the 'Designer' button and it will open the new window.
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A new window will allow you to create, -
Login to the console https://console.cloudamize.com/#/
Once logged into the console, you will see a home page with the icons, as shown below.
Click on the Icon “Analyze,” which navigates to the results page, and then click on View details as shown below.
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After clicking on “View Details” tab, it will take you to the page that shows the “Designer” as shown below-
A new window will open, as shown below, allowing you to create or edit a Design.
To edit an existing design, [1] select the design from the dropdown menu , and ‘click’ 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.
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The center of the Designer presents the same information , as the Assess Dashboard.
In the middle is the Annual Cost, along with the Infrastructure Summary, underneath . Underneath is the details chart for Summary, Compute, Storage, Network, and License.
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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.
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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 continuing to work, or you can finalize your changes and Build a Design.
The Force Rebuild button is to be used in the event that if you edit an existing design.
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This will then begin the process of recalculating costs on the Cloudamize platform, with updated pricing being shown on your Assess Dashboard once the calculations have been completed.
After selecting ‘Commit Changes’ you will be returned to the Assess Dashboard.
Please Note: this This process can take up to 45 minutes to complete, depending on the size of your infrastructure , and the number of changes made.
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In AWS, you can select any pricing plan which is offered by the cloud provider and apply that pricing to any number of machines.
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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 customer's current Software Assurance agreement.
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Please note: SQL Data is only captured using individual agents. This feature is not available for nodes assessed with agentless data collectors , or vCenter and Hyper-V installations.
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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 for which 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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To choose between Cloudamize Algorithm, 2nd Standard Deviation, and 3rd Standard Deviation, use the drop-down menu:
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You can customize the Storage Capacity Scaling, the number of disks in a RAID array, and whether credit buckets should be considered or ignored:
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