You can edit the monthly cost of maintaining your cloud environment. Maintenance cost is categorized into hardware maintenance cost and operating system maintenance cost. Hardware maintenance cost is calculated as a percentage of the purchase cost of servers. Operating system maintenance cost is calculated as a percentage of the Windows licensing costs.

Procedure

  1. Log in to vRealize Business for Cloud as an administrator.
    • https://vRealize_Automation_host_name/vcac/org/tenant_URL (for the vRealize Automation integrated setup)
    • https://vRealize_Business_for_Cloud_host_name/itfm-cloud (for the vRealize Business for Cloud standalone setup)
  2. Click Business Management.
  3. Expand Expenses and expand Private Cloud (vSphere).
  4. Select Cost Drivers.
  5. Select the Maintenance tab.
  6. (Optional) Select a data center from the All Data Centers drop-down list to view or edit the maintenance information of a specific the data center.
  7. Edit the monthly maintenance cost.
    • Edit the percentage value of the hardware maintenance cost.
    • Edit the percentage value of the operating system maintenance cost.
  8. Click Save.
  9. (Optional) Click Reset to clear the updated values.

Results

The monthly maintenance cost is updated.