In vCloud Usage Meter,you can add a customer rule by linking a customer label to specific objects in your vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Director inventory. When you construct a customer rule, the object type varies, depending on the product.
Object Type Definitions
Object types aid you in metering and reporting specific customer activity.
| Object Type in Inventory | Definition |
|---|---|
| vCenter Server | A vCenter Server is identified by a unique ID, holds all object types. |
| vCenter Server Cluster | Server group in the virtual environment. |
| Data center | A required structure in vCenter Server under which hosts and their associated virtual machines are added. |
| Host | Physical computer on which virtualization or other software is installed. |
| Resource Pool | Divisions of computing resources used to manage allocations between virtual machines in your inventory. |
| Folder | Grouped objects of the same type. For example, you can apply a common set of permissions to the folder and these permissions apply to all objects grouped in the folder. |
| VMware Cloud Director | A VMware Cloud Director is identified by a unique ID, holds all object types. |
| VMware Cloud Director Organization | A unit of administration for a collection of users, groups, and computing resources. |
Products and bundles that vCloud Usage Meter reports with customer rules
vCloud Usage Meter reports the following products and bundles in the Customer Monthly Usage Report:
- VMware vCloud SP Core Bundle (Flex Core)
- VMware Cloud Foundation for SDDC Manager
- Tanzu Basic (on the basis of the vRAM metric)
- Tanzu Standard (on the basis of the vRAM metric)
- vRealize Operations Standard Add-on
- vRealize Operations Advanced Add-on
- vRealize Operations Enterprise Add-on
- vRealize Network Insight Advanced Add-on
- vRealize Network Insight Enterprise Add-on
- NSX DC SP Professional
- NSX DC SP Advanced
- NSX DC SP Enterprise+
- NSX Enterprise
- vRealize Operations Standard
- vRealize Operations Advanced
- vRealize Operations Enterprise
- vRealize Network Insight Advanced
- vRealize Network Insight Enterprise
- Site Recovery Manager
Note: In the Customer Monthly Usage Report,
vCloud Usage Meter reports all the other products and bundles, the untagged usage, and fractions as
No Customer Label.
