Overview of Private Cloud Expenses

The private cloud expenses are categorized into different types such as Hardware, Storage on Demand, Licensing, Maintenance, Labor, Network, Facilities, and Additional Costs. You can see the total projected expense on your private cloud accounts for the current month and the trend of cost over time.

You can modify the expense of your data center. These costs can be in terms of percentage value or unit rate, and might not always be in terms of the overall cost. Based on your inputs, the final amount of expenses is calculated. If you do not provide inputs regarding expenses, the default values are taken from the reference database.

You can see the projected cost of private cloud for the current month and the trend of total cost over time. For all the expenses, vRealize Business for Cloud displays the monthly trend of the cost variations, the actual expense and a chart that represents the actual expense and the reference cost of the expense.

Note: If the vCenter Server was added from more than six months, the trend displays the total cost for the last six months only. Otherwise, the trend displays the total cost from the month the vCenter Server was added into vRealize Business for Cloud.

Table 1. Expense Types

Cost Drivers	Description
Hardware	You see the server cost based on CPU age and server cost details. For the complete server cost information, click the Hardware list with the complete cost information link.
Storage on Demand	You see the storage total distribution based on category and the uncategorized cost details. For the complete list of data stores and its cost information related to storage, click the Storage On Demand list with the complete cost information link.
Licensing	You see the licenses cost distribution for the operating systems cost and VMware license of your cloud environment. You can hover the mouse over the chart to see the cost details for each license. For the complete licensing cost information, click the Licensing list with the complete cost information link. Note: For Non-ESX physical servers, VMware license is not applicable.
Maintenance	You see the maintenance cost distribution for the server hardware and operating system maintenance. You can hover the mouse over the chart to see the cost details for each maintenance type. For the complete cost information related to maintenance, click the Maintenance list with the complete cost information link.
Labor	You see the labor cost distribution for the servers, virtual infrastructure, and operating systems. You can hover the mouse over the chart to see the cost details for each labor type. For the complete cost information related to labor, click the Labor list with the complete cost information link. Note: Labor cost includes expense on backup appliance virtual machine (VDP virtual appliance). For physical servers, operating system labor cost and servers labor costs are applicable, virtual infrastructure cost is not considered.
Network	You see the networks costs by NIC type. You can hover the mouse over the chart to see the cost details for each NIC type. For complete cost information related to network, click the Network list with the complete cost information link. Note: For physical servers, the network details are not captured. So, the network cost is considered as zero.
Facilities	You see the cost distribution for the facilities such as total operational cost per rack unit, and power and cooling. You can hover the mouse over the chart to see the cost details for each facility type. For the complete cost information related to facilities, click the Facilities list with the complete cost information link.
Additional Costs	You see the for additional expenses such as backup and restore, high availability, management licensing, VMware software licensing.

You can select a data center to view the information specific to the data center.