Chargeback VM Price Dashboard

The chargeback VM price dashboard lets you know how much you must spend to run a VM on behalf of your customer. In vRealize Operations , you can configure the cost drivers and let the system automatically determine how much a VM costs based on your infrastructure requirement. Cost Drivers cover server hardware, storage, licenses, application, maintenance, labor, network, facilities, and additional costs configured within vRealize Operations .

Price is what you charge your customer for running their VM. The price of a VM can be based on the cost of the VM or based on a rate card that you define. Prices can include up charges, service charges, and others.

How to Use the Dashboard

• Select a Group widget displays the price of the group.
• Price Summary of Selected Group shows the month to date price of the group.
• VM Price Distribution (Top 100) shows the most expensive VMs in the group.
• Powered Off VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings.
• Idle VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings.
• VMs with Snapshots shows reclaimable snapshots and their age.
• Price of VMs in the Selected Group shows the price and configuration of each VM in the selected group.