3.1.5 Compare Workload Costs with TCO

Comparing workload costs with TCO.

The TCO can be found here.

Assume you are considering moving some on-prem workloads to the cloud. The TCO calculator can be used as a start point.

As an example:

• You run two banks of 50 VMs.

• The first bank runs Windows Server on Hyper-V

• The second bank runs Linux on VMWare.

• There's also a 60TB SAN.

• You consume 15TB of outbound bandwidth.

• There are databases involved.