You can run cost, price, and VMware Cloud Bills analysis for your custom objects and groups. You can compare cost and price metrics across various custom groups. You can run an analysis and then view a list of the top and bottom 5, 10, and 20 objects based on selected metrics. Additionally you can also compare the metrics of cost, price, and VMware Cloud bills across objects.
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Analysis of Cost Metrics Cost is what you spend in currency value on managing and maintaining your infrastructure. Total Cost gives you an idea about the overall cost of ownership of your infrastructure. You can analyze cost metrics like Total Cost, Potential Savings, Realized Savings and so on, for your infrastructure that includes, VMs, hosts, and clusters. You can use lists and compare between selected objects types. For example, you can view the Top 10 VMs within a datacenter based on Total Cost for the last month or you can compare Cost Center A, Cost Center B, and Cost Center C based on Total Cost for the past 6 months.
Analysis of Price Metrics You can analyze price metrics for your infrastructure. The Total Price metric is based on the pricing policy defined by the user. You can use lists and compare pricing between selected objects types.
Analysis of VMware Cloud Bills VMware Cloud bills is the exact value you pay against the VMware Cloud infrastructure through Google Cloud VMware Engine , VMware Cloud on AWS , and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC . Currently these bills are available if the seller on record is VMware. Using this analysis you can view, list, and compare the different bills you have received for the given cloud over a period of time
Cost Analysis - Metrics and Metric Keys As part of Cost Analysis you can analyze Total Cost, Realized Saving, Potential Saving, MTD Cost, Monthly Projected Total Cost, Total Price, Total Component Expense, Outstanding Expense, Monthly Commit Expense, Monthly OnDemand Expense, and Monthly Total Expense. Metrics are divided into Cost, Price and Bill sections. The tables below map the metric names as per the cost UI with the metric names and the metric keys for each adapter and analysis (cost, price, and bills).
New or Edit Cost Analysis As part of analyzing cost, New Analysis is the page you use to fill in the details for your cost analysis scenario. You can select a metric, an object type, and the time range for which you want to analyze cost. Cost analysis are rendered using lists or bar graphs.
Saved Analyses The analyses that you save are listed in the Saved Analysis tab.