The chargeback VM price dashboard lets you know how much you must spend to run a VM on behalf of your customer. In VMware Aria Operations , you can configure the cost drivers and let the system automatically determine how much a VM costs based on your infrastructure requirement. Cost Drivers cover server hardware, storage, licenses, application, maintenance, labor, network, facilities, and additional costs configured within VMware Aria Operations .
Price is what you charge your customer for running their VM. The price of a VM can be based on the cost of the VM or based on a rate card that you define. Prices can include up charges, service charges, and others.
How to Use the Dashboard
- Select a Group widget displays the price of the group.
- Price Summary of Selected Group shows the month to date price of the group.
- VM Price Distribution (Top 100) shows the most expensive VMs in the group.
- Powered Off VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings.
- Idle VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings.
- VMs with Snapshots shows reclaimable snapshots and their age.
- Price of VMs in the Selected Group shows the price and configuration of each VM in the selected group.
