Live Optics | Cloud Pricing | Cloud Pricing for Optical Prime AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Summary: The Cloud Pricing tool uses your on-premises VM configuration assessed by Optical Prime (Guest VMs and Physical Servers with no hypervisors) and queries the price of hosting these VMs on the three main cloud service providers, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Pricing is displayed on the following ways: On demand 1 year 3 years From April 2024, Cloud Pricing supports currency conversion. The tool retrieves pricing in USD from the selected region and applies a daily rate conversion to the requested currency for on-screen display, Excel, and PAPI output. ...

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Symptoms

Understanding Cloud Pricing for Optical Prime.

Cause

This article is for those not fully understanding Cloud Pricing for Optical Prime.

Resolution

Locate Cloud Pricing

As Cloud Pricing information is only available through an Optical Prime project, an Optical Prime collection must be run first. To locate Cloud Pricing information:  

  • Use the Cloud Pricing tab in an Optical Prime project in the Live Optics Portal
  • Download the Excel project report from the Export menu in the Optical Prime project. Pricing is exported in the same Optical Prime excel sheet.

 

Pricing Factors

The factors used to determine pricing are listed below:

Pricing is based on the following configuration parameters for each of the assessed nodes:

    • Number of CPUs
    • Memory
    • Operating System
    • Storage

Pricing is based on the following fixed assumptions from the cloud provider:

    • VMs are running 24/7 for the whole month
    • Currency: USD
    • Monthly aggregation of the price
  • Pricing is done for Guest VMs
  • Pricing is based on SSD storage option
  • Burstable instances are excluded from our pricing model
  • Pricing includes the base license price for the OS
  • Pricing is for shared tenancy

 

Other Notes

AWS:

    • The pricing of convertible reserved instances is displayed for 1 year and 3 years
    • General purpose SSD storage (GP2) is used

Google Cloud:

    • Storage: Zonal SSD Persistent disk

Azure

    • Pricing is not shown for:
      • Low power instances (for example A0àA7)
      • Promo SKUs
    • Storage: SSD

 

Smart Approximation Logic

Smart approximation is the logic that we use for the display of pricing in case no direct match was found where we will Proceed with the below:

  • Round up for VCPU
  • Round down for VMEM if the difference is <=10% of the original value with a ceiling of 6 GB if the difference is greater, we proceed with a round up.

 

Results for smart approximation are displayed as below:

PRICE MATCHED FIELD NOTES FIELD
True Matched against instance name = X
False No direct match was found. Used nearest largest configuration with instance name = X, VCPU=Y,VMEM=Z
False Configuration Not available

 

Additional Information

If you have any questions, please reach out to Live Optics Support at liveoptics.support@dell.com.

Affected Products

Dell EMC Cloud For Microsoft Azure Stack, Multiple Systems Management
Article Properties
Article Number: 000228662
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2025
Version:  3
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