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Explore savings for Amazon Elastic VMware Service with NetApp Workload Factory

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Explore potential savings for migrating your VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS). The calculator enables you to compare costs of using Amazon EVS with and without Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as storage.

If the savings calculator determines that the most cost-effective storage is FSx for ONTAP, you can create a detailed assessment, which provides a migration plan that you can review before using. You can then use the Codebox to generate Infrastructure-as-Code templates.

Explore savings for EVS environments

Follow these steps to explore potential savings for a planned migration to an Amazon EVS environment.

Note Before proceeding, review the disclaimer at the bottom of the savings calculator to understand more about how the pricing estimates are calculated.
Steps

  1. Log in to Workload Factory using one of the console experiences.

  2. From the VMware workloads tile, select Explore savings and then Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS). The savings calculator is displayed.

    In the Environment preferences pane, you can select your EVS deployment region and adjust TCO and savings predictions accordingly.

  3. From the Region drop-down list, select the EVS deployment region to calculate savings.

  4. Adjust the following sliders as needed to see real-time savings calculations for the values that you choose. If using a keyboard, you can make small adjustments using the arrow keys:

    • Required physical CPU (count)

    • Required physical memory (GiB)

    • Required VM storage (TiB)

  5. Under EVS billing plan, select the plan you are on.

  6. Do one of the following:

    • To use the migration advisor to create a deployment plan for an Amazon EVS environment, select Plan EVS migration.

    • Select Close to close the TCO calculator.