Save costs with reserved instances in Azure VMware Solution

2025-04-13

When you commit to a reserved instance of Azure VMware Solution, you save money. The reservation discount automatically applies to the running Azure VMware Solution hosts that match the reservation scope and attributes. In addition, a reserved instance purchase covers only the compute part of your usage and includes software licensing costs.

Information om inköpsbegränsningar

Reserved instances are available with some exceptions:

Clouds: Reservations are available only in the regions listed on the Products available by region page.
Insufficient quota: A reservation scoped to a single or shared subscription must have hosts quota available in the subscription for the new reserved instance. You can create a quota increase request to resolve this issue.
Offer eligibility: You need an Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Microsoft.
Capacity restrictions: In rare circumstances, Azure limits the purchase of new reservations for Azure VMware Solution host SKUs because of low capacity in a region.

Köpa en bokning

You can buy a reserved instance of an Azure VMware Solution host instance in the Azure portal.

You can pay for the reservation upfront or with monthly payments.

These requirements apply to buying a reserved dedicated host instance:

To buy a reservation, you must have the owner role or reservation purchaser role on an Azure subscription.
For EA subscriptions, you must enable the Add Reserved Instances option in the EA portal. If disabled, you must be an EA Admin for the subscription to enable it.
For a subscription under a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Azure plan, the partner must purchase the customer's reserved instances in the Azure portal.

Buy reserved instances for an EA subscription

Logga in på Azure-portalen.
Välj Alla tjänster>Reservationer.
Select Purchase Now, and then select Azure VMware Solution.

Enter the required fields. The selected attributes that match running Azure VMware Solution hosts qualify for the reservation discount. Exempel på attribut är SKU, regioner (om tillämpligt) och omfång. Reservationsomfånget bestämmer var reservationsbesparingarna ska gälla.

If you have an EA agreement, you can use the Add more option to add instances quickly. The option isn't available for other subscription types.

Field	Beskrivning
Prenumeration	Prenumerationen som användes till att betala för reservationen. The payment method on the subscription is charged the costs for the reservation. The subscription type must be an EA (offer numbers MS-AZR-0017P or MS-AZR-0148P), Microsoft Customer Agreement, or an individual subscription with pay-as-you-go rates (offer numbers MS-AZR-0003P or MS-AZR-0023P). The charges are deducted from the Azure Prepayment (previously called monetary commitment) balance, if available, or charged as overage. For a subscription with pay-as-you-go rates, the charges are billed to the subscription's credit card or an invoice payment method.
Definitionsområde	Reservationens omfång kan omfatta en prenumeration eller flera prenumerationer (delat omfång). If you select: Single resource group scope: Applies the reservation discount to the matching resources in the selected resource group only. Single subscription scope: Applies the reservation discount to the matching resources in the selected subscription. Shared scope: Applies the reservation discount to matching resources in eligible subscriptions that are in the billing context. For EA customers, the billing context is the enrollment. Therefore, the billing scope is all eligible subscriptions created by the account administrator for individual subscriptions with pay-as-you-go rates. Management group: Applies the reservation discount to the matching resource in the list of subscriptions that are a part of both the management group and billing scope.
Region	The Azure region covered by the reservation.
Host size	AV36
Begrepp	Ett år eller tre år.
Kvantitet	The number of instances to purchase within the reservation. The quantity is the number of running Azure VMware Solution hosts that can get the billing discount.

Buy reserved instances for a CSP subscription

CSPs that want to purchase reserved instances for their customers must use the Admin On Behalf Of procedure from the Partner Center documentation. For more information, view the Admin On Behalf Of video.

Logga in på Partnercenter.
Select CSP to access the Customers pane.
Expand customer details and select Microsoft Azure Management Portal.
In the Azure portal, select All services>Reservations.
Select Purchase Now and then select Azure VMware Solution.

Field	Beskrivning
Prenumeration	The subscription that funds the reservation. The payment method on the subscription is charged the costs for the reservation. The subscription type must be an eligible one, which in this case is a CSP subscription.
Definitionsområde	Reservationens omfång kan omfatta en prenumeration eller flera prenumerationer (delat omfång). If you select: Single resource group scope: Applies the reservation discount to the matching resources in the selected resource group only. Single subscription scope: Applies the reservation discount to the matching resources in the selected subscription. Shared scope: Applies the reservation discount to matching resources in eligible subscriptions that are in the billing context. For EA customers, the billing context is the enrollment. Therefore, the billing scope is all eligible subscriptions created by the account administrator for individual subscriptions with pay-as-you-go rates. Management group: Applies the reservation discount to the matching resource in the list of subscriptions that are a part of both the management group and billing scope.
Region	The Azure region covered by the reservation.
Host size	AV36
Begrepp	Ett år eller tre år.
Kvantitet	The number of instances to purchase within the reservation. The quantity is the number of running Azure VMware Solution hosts that can get the billing discount.

To learn more about viewing the purchased reservations for your customer, see View Azure reservations as a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP).

Användningsdata och reservationsanvändning

För användning med reservationsrabatt är det effektiva priset noll. You can see which Azure VMware Solution instance received the reservation discount for each reservation.

Mer information om hur reservationsrabatter visas i användningsdata:

For EA customers, see Understand Azure reservation usage for your EA enrollment.
For individual subscriptions, see Understand Azure reservation usage for your pay-as-you-go subscription.

Change a reservation after purchase

You can make these changes to a reservation after purchase:

Uppdatera reservationsomfång
Instance size flexibility (if applicable)
Ägarskap

You can also split a reservation into smaller chunks or merge reservations. None of the changes causes a new commercial transaction or changes the end date of the reservation.

For more information about CSP-managed reservations, see Sell Azure reservations to customers by using Partner Center, the Azure portal, or APIs.

Anmärkning

After you purchase your reservation, you won't be able to make these types of changes directly:

An existing reservation's region
artikelnummer (SKU)
Kvantitet
Varaktighet

However, you can exchange a reservation if you want to make changes.

Avboka, byta ut eller återbetala reservationer

Du kan avbryta, byta ut eller återbetala reservationer med vissa begränsningar. Mer information finns i Byten och återbetalningar med självbetjäning för Azure-reservationer. Azure VMware Solution reservations don't fall into this category, so the new exchange rules don't apply.

CSPs can cancel, exchange, or refund reservations, with certain limitations, purchased for their customer. For more information, see Manage, cancel, exchange, or refund Azure reservations for customers.

Now that you covered reserved instances of Azure VMware Solution, learn how to:

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