Analysis Process
On-premises usage is discovered and is converted to public cloud costs per the VMs in the move group you choose to analyze. Costs are based on the pricing policy of each cloud platform.
It is particularly important to understand your network and I/O usage because network and I/O incur significant costs in the cloud, as compared to on-premises.
Some of the factors considered in the analysis process include the following:
Physical
Parent host data
Hardware make and model
CPU type, cores, and speed
Memory
Storage capacity and storage type
Virtual (VMs)
Parent host data
vCPUs
Memory
Storage
Subnet
Guest OS
Power-on state
Utilization history
CPU
Memory
Network activity
Disk I/O activity
CSP services and features considered in the recommendation process:
Selecting optimal compute type
Selecting optimal license type
Right-sizing
Application uptime
Elastic architecture
Windows licensing
Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Serverless Compute / Containers as a Service (CaaS)
VMware on AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM Cloud