You can create pricing cards in vRealize Operations to calculate the price associated with your virtual infrastructure. You can assign pricing cards to vCenters or Clusters, depending on the pricing strategy determined by vRealize Operations administrator. The pricing cards help you to set the price for each resource present in your virtual environment.
You can customize the pricing card as per your requirement. vRealize Operations has two types of pricing cards, rate-based pricing card and cost-based pricing card. After configuring a pricing card, you can assign it to one or more vCenters or Clusters as determined by the pricing strategy.
How Is Price Calculated
In rate-based pricing policy vRealize Operations calculates the virtual infrastructure price based on the rate card defined by you. For rate-based pricing policy vRealize Operations lets you define cost elements as per your requirements.
The server recalculates the price every 24-hours, the price calculation for the new pricing cards is done in the next vRealize Operations price calculation cycle.
Hierarchy of Pricing Policy
The assignment of policy in vRealize Operations will be for Clusters and vCenters. The price is calculated for virtual machines, then it is aggregated and rolled up to vCenter. If there are two policies, a default policy for vCenter and another policy for Cluster, then the price calculation is based on the cluster policy for all the resources under the cluster. After that the cluster cost is rolled up to vCenter.
When a virtual machine is under vRealize Automation hierarchy and vCenter hierarchy, then the pricing is calculated based on the vRealize Automation hierarchy and the virtual machine is removed from the vCenter resources and included under vRealize Automation resources.
