SDDC costing is out-of-the box with vRealize Operations Manager . There is no integration required with vRealize Business for Cloud. Cost Settings for Financial Accounting ModelYou can configure Server Hardware cost driver and resource utilization parameters to calculate the accurate cost and improve the efficiency of your environment. Overview of Cost Drivers Cost Drivers are the aspect that contributes to the expense of your business operations. Cost drivers provide a link between a pool of costs. To provide a granular cost visibility and to track your expenses of virtual machines accurately in a private cloud, vRealize Operations Manager has identified eight key cost drivers. You can see the total projected expense on your private cloud accounts for the current month and the trend of cost over time. Cloud Providers OverviewBy default, you can see that Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are included in vRealize Operations Manager . You can also add your own cloud provider by using a standard vRealize Operations Manager template. Editing Cost DriversYou can manually edit monthly cost of all the eight expense types from the current month onwards. Cluster Cost Overview vRealize Operations Manager calculates the base rates of CPU and memory so that they can be used for the virtual machine cost computation. Base rates are determined for each cluster, which are homogeneous provisioning groups. As a result, base rates might change across clusters, but are the same within a cluster. Cost Calculation Status OverviewYou can check the ongoing status of manually triggered cost calculation process. Parent topic: Connecting vRealize Operations Manager to Data Sources
