Companion Tools

S2DCartographer is part of a broader set of Azure Local tooling. These tools are designed to complement each other across the full cluster lifecycle.

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Azure Local Surveyor

Azure Local Surveyor is a pre-deployment capacity and workload modeling tool. Use it before you build the cluster to validate hardware sizing, model resiliency scenarios, and plan workload placement.

	Surveyor	S2DCartographer
When to use	Before deployment	After deployment
Input	Hardware specs, workload requirements	Live cluster or JSON snapshot
Output	Capacity model, sizing recommendations	Audit report, health checks, what-if scenarios
Live cluster required	No	No (snapshot mode)

TIP

The workflowSurveyor plans; Cartographer verifies. Run Surveyor during the design phase to confirm your hardware choices meet your capacity requirements. Run S2DCartographer after deployment to validate the build matches what was planned — and on an ongoing basis to track health and available headroom.