Estimators built on the same figures our team quotes from. Each one takes about a minute.
Each estimate calculator runs on the rate card our team quotes from and shows you which inputs impact the pricing.
Entering all necessary data takes less than 1 minute and you can change your entries as many times as you want.
Set your laptop and server count, add network gear if needed, and pick an order date. Prices move about 0.5% a week, and ageing devices cost more to support.
Choose a resilience tier from Foundation to Enterprise, how much front-end data you protect, and your retention period, where most land on 28 days.
Start with the generation you are leaving, since CPW per core varies widely. Then size compute units, LPARs and storage, and pick production, DR or active.
Size your environment in vCPU bundles of 4 GB RAM and 100 GB NVMe, then add storage, DR and licensing. Compute and storage scale independently.
What goes into an estimate and where each one starts, in plain terms.
Driven by the number of laptops and servers in scope, whether network infrastructure needs replacing too, and how far out you plan to place the order. Two things move while you wait: vendor hardware pricing, rising steadily across every major brand, and the support overhead of keeping ageing devices running as warranties lapse and failures cluster.
Driven by the processor generation you are migrating from, since CPW per core varies widely between Power6 and Power9, and the target generation you move to. Then the number of LPARs, Flash Core Module storage, additional RAM, and whether you need production only, disaster recovery, or an active high-availability pairing.
Driven by the resilience tier you need, which sets how many copies are kept and how fast recovery is; the volume of front-end data you protect; and your retention period, usually set by a regulatory minimum rather than a preference.
Driven by how many vCPU bundles your workloads need, each one including 4 GB of RAM and 100 GB of NVMe storage, plus any additional storage, the disaster recovery tier you choose, and licensing such as Windows Server, SQL Server and Veeam. Compute and storage scale independently, so you can add one without paying for the other.
An estimate gets you close. A conversation with someone who has run your kind of environment gets you exact, with a migration plan and a comparison against what you have today.
They are built on the same rate card our team quotes from, so they should land close. What they cannot account for is your specific workload mix, migration complexity and commercial terms, which is what a scoping conversation settles.
No. Every estimator on this page shows you a figure without a form. You share your details only when you want a formal quote, or the free hardware refresh business case.
For a straightforward environment, an estimate and a written quote can be enough. For a larger or mixed environment, a scoping conversation is how we get the configuration right rather than guessing at it, and our Private Cloud estimator will tell you when it thinks you are in that territory. Either way, the number comes first and you see it here.
No. All figures are in Australian dollars and exclude GST.
Because the honest answer for infrastructure is that it depends on what you are running. These tools are the closest thing to a price list that stays truthful, and they show you which inputs move the number rather than hiding them.
