As a Service Provider, you can charge different OVDCs and generate bills at the Organization/OVDC level. You can provide a bill summary at an organization level by separating the cost incurred by the different OVDCs. You can also charge for resources consumed at an organization level rather than the OVDC level.
Prerequisites
You can generate bills from the VMware Chargeback UI by selecting a resource name from an organization. Verify that pricing policies are created for a selected resource.
Procedure
- On the left pane, click .
- Click Generate/Schedule New Bill.
- Select a resource from the list of resources. You can generate a bill at the organization level or at a specific OVDC level. Select the check box against the Organization name to generate the bill at the organization level or select the check box against any specific OVDC to generate a bill at the OVDC level.
Note: If you select the check box at the Organization level then all the OVDCs under it are selected automatically. Deselecting any of the OVDCs will undo the selection at the Organization level.
- Click Next.
- Select a policy name and click Next. By default, the selected pricing policy will be applied to the VDCs that do not have any other pricing policies assigned previously.
Note: When generating a bill, if you have a resource that does not have any pricing policy assigned to it, then the pricing policy of the parent will be used for that bill.
- Enter a Title and specify the period for generating a new bill from the selected resources and policies in the Start Date and End Date fields.
- To schedule a bill, enable the Schedule bill option and specify the details to generate the bill on the required date. For example, if the Recurrence is Monthly, From Day is 1, To Day is 31, Month is Previous and Generate bill on is 3, then the details are collected for the previous month starting from first of the month to 31st and the bill is generated on the third of every month.
- Click Generate.
