You can view the subscription usage of each vSphere+ and vSAN+ edition. You can also view the subscription usage for each vCenter Server and determine whether the usage is beyond or within the subscription capacity you purchased.

To view the subscription usage, in the VMware Cloud Console, click Subscriptions > Subscription Usage.

The bar chart represents the subscription usage from each vSphere+ and vSAN+ edition. The table represents the subscription usage from each vCenter Server.

You can view the following details in the bar chart for each subscription edition:
  • Actual Usage: the total number of cores used.
  • Used Commitments: the number of cores used from the purchased commitments.
  • Unused Commitments: the number of unused cores from the purchased commitments.
  • Overage: the number of cores used beyond the purchased commitments.
  • Billable Usage: the sum of your purchased commitments and the overage. You will be billed only for the overage.
  • Loaned Usage: the number of cores used from a higher edition to pay for the actual usage from a lower edition.
  • Borrowed Usage: the number of cores borrowed by a lower edition from a higher edition to offset some of the actual usage from the lower edition.

If you purchased multiple editions of a service, the unused commitments from a higher edition are used to pay for any excess usage from a lower edition. However, the unused commitments from a lower edition are not used to pay for higher editions because they offer more features than lower editions. For example, if you purchased both vSphere+ Standard and vSphere+ editions, the unused commitments from vSphere+ are used for vSphere+ Standard, and you will not be billed for overage. For information about subscription editions, see Understand Subscription Editions.

Here are a few scenarios that help you understand how the subscription usage is determined:

Scenario 1: You purchased two vSphere+ editions, and the actual usage from a higher edition is more than the purchased commitments.

Consider a scenario where you purchased 10 cores of vSphere+ Standard and 10 cores of vSphere+. The actual usage from vSphere+ Standard is 5 cores, which is less than the purchased commitments. The actual usage from vSphere+ is 15 cores, which is more than the purchased commitments. In this scenario, though there are 5 unused cores from a lower edition, they are not used for the higher edition because the lower edition does not include all the capabilities of the higher edition. The additional 5 cores usage from the higher edition is considered as overage. The following figure shows the bar chart for this scenario:
Figure 1. Scenario 1

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For vSphere+ Standard:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 5 cores.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 10 cores, where 5 cores from the purchased commitments are used and 5 cores are unused.
For vSphere+:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 15 cores.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 15 cores, where 10 cores from the purchased commitments are used and 5 cores are considered as overage.

Scenario 2: You purchased three editions of vSAN+, and the actual usage from a higher edition is more than the purchased commitments.

Consider a scenario where you purchased 10 cores of each vSAN+ edition. There is no actual usage from vSAN+ Standard, so there are 10 unused cores. There is an actual usage of 20 cores from vSAN+ Advanced, which is beyond the purchased commitments. There is an actual usage of 5 cores from vSAN+, so there are still 5 unused cores. In this scenario, the 5 unused cores from vSAN+ (higher edition) are used to pay for the excess usage from vSAN+ Advanced. However, the 10 unused cores from vSAN+ Standard are not used because it is a lower edition. Unused cores from a lower edition are not borrowed to pay for a higher edition. The following figure shows the bar chart for this scenario:

Figure 2. Scenario 2

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For vSAN+ Standard:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 0 cores.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 10 unused cores from the purchased commitments.
For vSAN+ Advanced:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 20 cores.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 15 cores, where 10 cores are from the purchased commitments and 5 cores are considered as overage. Though the overage is 10 cores, 5 cores are borrowed from vSAN+, so you pay only for the remaining 5 cores.
For vSAN+:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 5 cores.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 10 cores because 10 cores from the purchased commitments are used. Though the actual usage from vSAN+ is only 5 cores, the remaining 5 cores are loaned to pay for the excess usage from vSAN+ Advanced.

Scenario 3: You purchased three editions of vSAN+, and the actual usage from the lowest edition is more than the purchased commitments.

Consider a scenario where you purchased 10 cores of each vSAN+ edition. There is an actual usage of 25 cores from vSAN+ Standard, which is beyond the purchased commitments. There is no actual usage from vSAN+ Advanced, so there are 10 unused cores. There is an actual usage of 5 cores from vSAN+, so there are still 5 unused cores. In this scenario, the unused cores from the next immediate higher edition are considered first to pay for the overage. Only when there are no more unused cores left from the immediate higher edition, the unused cores from the next higher edition are considered. The following figure shows the bar chart for this scenario:

Figure 3. Scenario 3

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For vSAN+ Standard:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 25 cores.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 10 cores from the purchased commitments.
  • Borrowed usage is 15 cores, where 10 cores are borrowed from vSAN+ Advanced and 5 cores are borrowed from vSAN+. Though the actual usage exceeded the purchased commitments, there is no overage because the unused cores from the higher editions are used to pay for the excess usage.
For vSAN+ Advanced:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 0.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 10 cores from the purchased commitments. Though there is no actual usage from vSAN+ Advanced, 10 cores are loaned to pay for the overage from vSAN+ Standard.
For vSAN+:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 5 cores.
  • The right bar represents the billable usage, which is 10 cores purchased commitments. Though the actual usage from vSAN+ is only 5 cores, the remaining 5 cores are loaned to pay for the overage from vSAN+ Standard.

Scenario 4: Your vSAN+ Standard subscription has expired.

Consider a scenario where your vSphere+ Standard subscription is active but your vSAN+ Standard subscription has expired, and there is an actual usage of 20 cores from vSAN+ Standard. In this scenario, the entire 20 cores are considered as overage because the vSAN+ Standard subscription has expired. The following figure shows the bar chart for this scenario:

Figure 4. Scenario 4

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For vSAN+ Standard:
  • The left bar represents the actual number of cores used, which is 20 cores.
  • The right bar represents the overage, which is 20 cores, because the purchased subscription has expired.