If you associate a Aria Operations server with a vCenter Server instance that you added for metering, vCloud Usage Meter detects the Aria Operations and displays the servers in the vCloud Usage Meter Web interface.
vCloud Usage Meter also detects all vCenter Server servers that a Aria Operations instance monitors. To avoid configuration issues, configure the metered vCenter Server instances, the associated Aria Operations instances, and vCloud Usage Meter to use the same time zone.
Reporting of managed and unmanaged vCenter Server line items
If the added Aria Operations monitors a vCenter Server instance, which is added for metering, vCloud Usage Meter reports the product consumption for this vCenter Server instance as Managed vCenter line items.
If the added Aria Operations monitors a vCenter Server instance, which is not added for metering, vCloud Usage Meter reports the product consumption for this vCenter Server as Unmanaged vCenter Servers line items.
If Aria Operations monitors a virtual machine that runs on Unmanaged vCenter Servers, vCloud Usage Meterreports the virtual machine as standalone.
Aria Operations Edition-based reporting
The Aria Operations Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise editions are reported as Flex add-on or standalone depending on your preference.
Aria Operations license groups
For Aria Operations 8.6 and later, vCloud Usage Meter supports license-based metering on a virtual machine level by using the Aria Operations license groups.
- Every license must be a member of only one license group. If you add a license to two or more license groups, vCloud Usage Meter considers it as a member of the first license group returned by Aria Operations API.
- When configuring the Aria Operations license groups, do not include in the same group licenses with different license editions. If you configure a license group that includes licenses with different license editions, the highest license is applied to all license group objects.
