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Technical Note: Using VMware vCenter Chargeback

Manager with VMware vCloud Director

Cost Models

Cost models are used to associate base rates, billing policies and ﬁxed costs with chargeable entities.

vCenter Chargeback Manager comes with the following default cost models for vCloud Director entities. These

vCD-speciﬁc cost models are mapped to the appropriate billing policy and have no base rates deﬁned.

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Allocation Pool cost model

Networks cost model

Allocation Pool cost model

Pay As You Go – ﬁxed-based–charging cost model

Pay As You Go – resource–based–charging cost model

Reservation Pool cost model

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Chargeback Manager cost model, which has preexisting base rates deﬁned.

Pay As You Go – ﬁxed-based–charging cost model if you intend to charge a ﬂat, ﬁxed fee per virtual

machine; use the Pay As You Go – resource-based–charging cost model if you intend to charge based on the

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Consider the following options for applying costs to vCloud entities:

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type. Deﬁne ﬁxed costs for each unit of consumption and apply them to the appropriate vCloud vDC entities.

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regardless of allocation size. This assumes that the wanted charge scales linearly with changes in allocation





Other Costs, which include deﬁnable ﬁxed costs for guest operating systems

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Billing Policies

Billing policy expressions deﬁne how vCenter Chargeback Manager associates a cost to a particular metered

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following assignable attributes:

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user modiﬁes the size, allocation or reservation of the resource.

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