Quickstart: Generate a rapid cost estimate

Quickstart: Generate a rapid cost estimate

Learn how to generate a rapid cost estimate for running your infrastructure on Google Cloud with Migration Center.

The estimates are generated based on Google Cloud best practices. Your actual cost can be higher or lower than the generated estimate.

In this example, you will estimate the cost of migrating an on-premises environment that has the following specifications:

• Contains x86 vCPUs only
• Includes SAP and Oracle vCPUs
• Includes both Linux and Windows vCPUs
• Has a migration timeline of 5 years

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To follow step-by-step guidance for this task directly in the Google Cloud console, click Guide me:

Guide me

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Before you begin

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

4. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Start estimation

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Migration Center Estimate cost page.

   Go to Estimate cost

2. In the Estimate name field, enter demo_estimate.

3. In the On-premises calculator card, click Add to estimate.

4. Click Start estimate.

5. On the Start your estimate page, in the On-premises card, click Start.

Specify infrastructure details

1. On the Estimate basics page, leave the default location as is and click Next.

2. On the Infrastructure page, in the Total vCPUs to be migrated section, in the Number of vCPUs field, enter 78250.

   Based on the default storage to compute ratio, which is 4:1, the Data center memory required field is automatically updated to 313000.

3. Leave the Include non-x86 infrastructure checkbox blank.

4. In the Storage currently in use in your data center(s) section, specify the following details:

   1. In the Total storage (TB) field, enter 110.

   2. Leave the default values for % File Storage, % Block Storage, and % Object Storage as is.

5. To specify the workload and license details, click Next.

Specify workload and license details

1. On the Workloads and licenses page, in the Oracle and SAP workloads section, select Oracle and SAP.

2. In the additional Oracle vCPUs and SAP vCPUs fields that appear, enter the following values:

   • % of total vCPUs running Oracle Database: 32
   • % of total vCPUs running Oracle Exadata: 0
   • % of total total vCPUs running Oracle Data Warehouse Database: 0
   • Storage for Oracle database (GB): 50
   • % of total SAP Application vCPUs: 38
   • % of total SAP Database vCPUs: 12

3. In the Licenses for all other workloads section, select Windows Server.

4. Select Linux OS and then select Free Linux OS options (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, AlmaLinux, openSUSE, etc).

5. In the % of vCPUs running Windows Server field, enter 30.

6. In the % of vCPUs running free Linux OS field, enter 70.

7. To set up the migration timeline, click Next.

Set up the migration timeline

1. On the Migration timeline, pricing, and discounts page, leave the default values as is.

2. To review and export the results, click Submit.

Review and export estimation results

This page displays the following:

• Your 5-year cloud spend estimate range.

  For this example, the range is $57.5M - $70.3M.

• Estimated pricing for your selected environment.

  In this example, to view the breakdown of the annual cost for migrating your on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud and the breakdown of the annual cost for each product, click View details in the On-premises results card.

  To view the breakdown of the annual cost for each product, click the product name. For example, to view the annual cost breakdown for Compute Engine, click Compute. The annual list price and percentage of the total estimate is displayed for each Compute Engine component.

  Further, to see the details of how this cost is calculated for any Google Cloud component, click the component name. For example, click Compute for Hot cores (N2). The details about how the sizing and price is calculated is displayed. These calculations are based on your inputs and the default assumptions that you can edit if needed.

To export the estimation results, on the top of the results page, click Export and select the appropriate option.

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used on this page, follow these steps.

Delete the project

The easiest way to eliminate billing is to delete the project that you created for the tutorial.

To delete the project:

Caution: Deleting a project has the following effects:

• Everything in the project is deleted. If you used an existing project for the tasks in this document, when you delete it, you also delete any other work you've done in the project.
• Custom project IDs are lost. When you created this project, you might have created a custom project ID that you want to use in the future. To preserve the URLs that use the project ID, such as an appspot.com URL, delete selected resources inside the project instead of deleting the whole project.

If you plan to explore multiple architectures, tutorials, or quickstarts, reusing projects can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page.

   Go to Manage resources

2. In the project list, select the project that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
3. In the dialog, type the project ID, and then click Shut down to delete the project.

What's next

• Learn more about cost estimation.