You can edit the different license cost of your VMware Aria Operations environment. You can now set a total fixed cost for the license in VMware Aria Operations . The total license cost is divided across all the hosts present in the data center. You can edit the license cost by either selecting the ELA charging policy or selecting the per socket value.

Procedure

  1. From the left menu, click Operations > Configurations, and then click Cost Drivers.
  2. In the Cost Drivers tab, click License.
  3. Select the required edit mode for changing the license cost.
    • Edit for All Data centers - mode helps you to customize a single cost driver value for all the data centers. Any customizations done for the Specific data center mode are lost.
    • Edit for specific Data Center - mode helps you to customize different cost driver values for different data centers. Any customizations done for All data centers mode are lost.
      Note: When you select Edit for specific data center as the edit mode, then the select data center option is activated. Select the data center from the drop-down menu
  4. Click Save.
    The Cost drivers display all the licenses in your VMware Aria Operations environment.
    Category Description
    Name Displays the different license categories:
    • VMware by Broadcom Licenses.
      • VMware Software Per Core: The VMware Software Per Core license is applicable for ESXi licensing and covers the monthly cost of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) license for VMware ESXi server 8.0 and later is charged by Per Core. The VCF license is assumed by default for all core-based licenses after you upgrade to VMware ESXi server 8.0.
        Note: The cost value of $9.7 has been calculated based on the three-year term license pricing value ((350/3)/12). If you are using a vSphere Foundation (VVF) license, you must update this value to $3.75 ((135/3)/12) .
      • VMware Software: The VMware Software license is applicable for ESXi licensing only. The monthly cost of VMware Software for VMware ESXi server 7.0 or earlier is charged by Per Socket. The cost value of $51.32 has been calculated using the standard license pricing value.
      • VMware vSAN: vSAN license is applicable only to ESXi servers that are classified as Server Hardware- Hyper Converged and this cost is distributed to all the datastores under these servers. There are two cost components, Monthly cost of VMware vSAN Per Socket and Monthly cost of VMware vSAN SnS have been included for the vSAN cost calculation. The default values for these components are based on the reference database values.
        Note: VMware vSAN licenses are included in the VCF licenses. If you are using a VCF license, update the cost value as applicable to avoid adding extra cost.
    • Windows Server: The licensing cost for the Windows operating system falls under one of the following categories:
      Per Core License, applicable for
      • Windows Server 2016
      • Windows Server 2019
      Per Socket License, applicable for
      • Windows NT 4.0
      • Windows Server 2003
      • Windows Server 2008
      • Windows Server 2012
      Per Instance License, applicable for
      • Windows XP
      • Windows Vista
      • Windows 98
      • Windows 95
      • Windows 8
      • Windows 7
      • Windows 3.1
      • Windows 2000
      • Windows 10
    • SUSE or Red Hat: Cost drivers categorize the Linux operating system under SUSE or Red Hat.
    • Other Operating Systems: Displays the category of the operating system. If the operating system is not Windows or Linux, cost drivers categorize the operating system under Other Operating Systems.
    VMs Displays the number of virtual machines that are running on the specific operating system.
    Sockets Displays the number of sockets on which the specific operating system is running.
    Charged by Displays whether a cost is charged by socket or ELA.
    Note: The Charged By column can be edited to mention that the cost is charged by socket, core, instance, or ELA.
    Total Cost Displays the total cost of the specific operating system.
  5. Click Save.

Results

According to your inputs, VMware Aria Operations calculates and displays the total cost and updates the Charged by column with the option that you have selected.