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PaulStirling
Iron Contributor
Apr 28, 2023
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Getting the most bang for your buck

Hi everyone,   We have been running 13 x Standard D16s v5 VMs for the past year with a scaling plan and customized idle script that kicks off users if idle for 60mins after hours (built in GPO sess...
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    leekie
    Apr 28, 2023

    Hi Paul,

     

    I don't have any experience with savings plans, although we've gone down the route of reservations for some of our AVD. The reservation is discounting cost on 730 hours per month for the purchased SKU/family, so it'd be a case of looking at the total running hours across all the machines and buying a suitable number of reservations (if there's a desire to commit for that extended period).

     

    In our case, we saw additional value from moving to AMD-based VM SKUs, as they're approx 10% cheaper than their Intel counterparts and the Azure compute benchmark scores are higher. Win - win!

     

    Hope that helps,


    Matt

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leekie
Copper Contributor
Apr 28, 2023

Hi Paul,

 

I don't have any experience with savings plans, although we've gone down the route of reservations for some of our AVD. The reservation is discounting cost on 730 hours per month for the purchased SKU/family, so it'd be a case of looking at the total running hours across all the machines and buying a suitable number of reservations (if there's a desire to commit for that extended period).

 

In our case, we saw additional value from moving to AMD-based VM SKUs, as they're approx 10% cheaper than their Intel counterparts and the Azure compute benchmark scores are higher. Win - win!

 

Hope that helps,


Matt

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    PaulStirling
    Iron Contributor
    May 01, 2023
    Great tip thanks. We will do some trialing