SDDC costing is out-of-the box with vRealize Operations . There is no integration required with vRealize Business for Cloud. Cost OverviewvRealize Operations now supports costing for private clouds, public clouds, and VMware Cloud Infrastructure. You can track expenses for a single virtual machine (VM), and how these expenses attribute to the overall cost associated with your private cloud accounts and VMware Cloud Infrastructure accounts. 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 DriversCost 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 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 . You can also add your own cloud provider by using a standard vRealize Operations template. Billing Enhancements for Horizon Management Pack and Virtual HostsThe cost calculation of vRealize Operations has been enhanced to include the end point objects of Horizon Management Pack and virtual hosts. Earlier, the cost calculation was based on the metrics collected for each end point object. Editing Cost DriversYou can manually edit monthly cost of all the eight expense types from the current month onwards. Cluster Cost Overview vRealize Operations 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. Publish Daily Cost Metrics for Virtual MachinesIn vRealize Operations , you can now publish daily cost metrics for all virtual machines. The daily cost metric of a virtual machine is the sum of daily cost of CPU, memory, storage, and additional cost associated with the virtual machine. Daily cost metrics provide granular details of the costs associated with the virtual machine. Publish Tag Based Cost as Individual MetricsYou can publish tag-based additional cost as individual metrics using vRealize Operations .To publish tag-based additional costs as individual metrics, you must first enable the Tag based Costing Metrics at the Global Settings level. If you enable the tag-based costing metrics at a VM level, then each of the tag-based cost is considered as an independent instance metric on the virtual machine. Pricing OverviewYou 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. Add New Pricing CardYou can add and assign new pricing card to vCenter and Clusters in vRealize Operations . The pricing card can be cost-based or rate-based, you can customize the cost-based pricing card and rate-based pricing card as per your requirement. After configuring the pricing card, you can assign it to one more vCenter or Clusters based on your pricing strategy. Cost Calculation Status OverviewYou can check the ongoing status of manually triggered cost calculation process. Costing EnhancementsIn vRealize Operations , a new global property Cluster Utilization Ceiling Factor is introduced. Using Cluster Utilization Ceiling Factor, you can specify the ceiling value and calculate the base rate for a cluster. Parent topic: Connecting vRealize Operations to Data Sources
