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When you shut down a resource, the reservation discount automatically applies to another matching resource in the specified scope. If no matching resources are found in the specified scope, then the reserved hours are *lost*.
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Stopped resources are billed and continue to use reservation hours. Deallocate or delete resources or scale-in other resources to use your available reservation hours with other workloads.
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Stopped resources are billed and continue to use reservation hours. To use your available reservation hours with other workloads, deallocate or delete resources or scale-in other resources.
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## Review RedHat VM usage before you buy
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- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for HPC Standard
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- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Standard
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For the type or amount of vCPUs license, it’s a little bit more complicated. Each license type has three variations: 1-2 vCPUs, 3-4 vCPUs and 5+ vCPU. To choose the variant that fits your needs, you to understand the formula behind the ratios.
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For the type or amount of vCPUs license, it’s slightly more complicated. Each license type has three variations: 1-2 vCPUs, 3-4 vCPUs, and 5+ vCPU. To choose the variant that fits your needs, you to understand the formula behind the ratios.
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### Ratio calculation
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1. Identify the VM size. Each VM size has a specific number of vCPUs.
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1. Determine the “Coverage Value” for your VMs by using the ratios defined in the [Instance size flexibility ratios](https://aka.ms/isf) file based on the following formula:
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$$ \frac {Ratio Of The Bought License} {Sum of the Ratio Of The "Target" Licenses} ={Coverage value}$$
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`Ratio Of The Bought License / Sum of the Ratio Of The "Target" Licenses = Coverage value`
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### Practical example
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- If you have two VMs with two vCPUs each, you:
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1. Capture the ratio of the target license for machines with 1-2 vCPU which is one, per the instance size flexibility ratio file. Because you have two VMs, the sum for the ratios is two.
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2. Input the value in the formula. It is:
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$$ \frac {2} {2} = 1
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`2 / 2 = 1`
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3. If you buy the SLES_HPC_Priority_3-4_vCPU_VM license, it fully covers two VMs with 1-2 vCPUs each.
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- If you have one VM with six vCPUs then:
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- If you have one VM with six vCPUs, then:
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1. Capture the ratio of the target license for VMs with 5+ vCPUs, which is 2.6 according to the instance size flexibility ratio file.
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2. Input the value in the formula, it is:
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$$ \frac {2} {2.6} = 0.77
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`2 / 2.6 = 0.77`
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4. If you buy the SLES_HPC_Priority_3-4_vCPU_VM license, it covers 77% of a VM with 6 vCPUs. Because there’s a difference in coverage, the result is that 77% of the VM is covered by the reservation and the remainder of 23% gets charged at the normal rate.
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### Environment-wide calculation
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-[Prepay for SUSE software plans with Azure Reservations](/azure/virtual-machines/linux/prepay-suse-software-charges)
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-[Prepay for Virtual Machines with Azure Reserved VM Instances](/azure/virtual-machines/prepay-reserved-vm-instances)
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