The Cost Management screen enables the creation of customized cost models that power WISdom's FinOps features. SQL Server licensing costs are based on industry averages for Standard and Enterprise Editions. Storage and Server Type costs default to standard cloud retail pricing based on processor type, number of processors, and memory. All defaults can be replaced with user-defined values to reflect your organization's actual costs.
Cost Management is organized into four sections: Licensing, Wait Time, Storage, and Server Type.
Licensing
Licensing defines the annual, per-CPU cost for SQL Server Standard and Enterprise Edition licenses. Click the pencil icon to edit these values.
For environments where SQL Server is licensed at the host level and presented to virtualized guests, calculate the average oversubscription across all hosts and apply that factor to the license cost at the host level.
Wait Time
Wait Time defines the cost per person-hour when queries or reports are delayed due to blocking or waiting. This value is used to quantify the business impact of users waiting on SQL Server to return results.
The default value of $150.00 per hour reflects Fortified's experience across years of SQL Server troubleshooting engagements. Click the pencil icon to update this value for your organization. A single Wait Time cost applies to all monitored instances.
Storage
Storage defines the cost model used for database and index cost calculations.
The default storage cost is estimated automatically based on IO performance and IO capacity, using standard cloud retail pricing. To define your own storage cost, click + Cost to add a user-defined rate as an annual cost per gigabyte. Multiple storage cost entries can be created to reflect different storage platforms or per-drive cost differences within your environment.
Server Type
Server Type defines the cost model used for infrastructure and code cost calculations.
The default server type cost is estimated automatically based on processor type, number of processors, and amount of memory, using standard cloud retail pricing from AWS and Azure. To define your own server type cost, click + Cost to add a user-defined rate as an annual cost per server. Create entries as needed to reflect the actual cost of each server class in your environment.
Adding Cost Entries
The + Cost button in the top-right of the screen creates new Storage or Server Type cost entries. Wait Time uses a single value shared across all instances and is updated by editing the existing entry directly.
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A future release will support ingestion of your actual cloud bill, enabling WISdom to auto-assign Storage and Server Type costs based on real billing data rather than retail estimates. Non-cloud resources will continue to use estimated costs, but those estimates will be anchored to your negotiated cloud rates rather than standard retail pricing.
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