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Technical Note: Using VMware vCenter Chargeback
Manager with VMware vCloud Director
Cost Models
Cost models are used to associate base rates, billing policies and fixed costs with chargeable entities.
vCenter Chargeback Manager comes with the following default cost models for vCloud Director entities. These
vCD-specific cost models are mapped to the appropriate billing policy and have no base rates defined.
Allocation Pool cost model
Networks cost model
Allocation Pool cost model
Pay As You Go – fixed-based–charging cost model
Pay As You Go – resource–based–charging cost model
Reservation Pool cost model
Chargeback Manager cost model, which has preexisting base rates defined.
Pay As You Go – fixed-based–charging cost model if you intend to charge a flat, fixed fee per virtual
machine; use the Pay As You Go – resource-based–charging cost model if you intend to charge based on the
Consider the following options for applying costs to vCloud entities:
type. Define fixed costs for each unit of consumption and apply them to the appropriate vCloud vDC entities.
regardless of allocation size. This assumes that the wanted charge scales linearly with changes in allocation
Other Costs, which include definable fixed costs for guest operating systems
Billing Policies
Billing policy expressions define how vCenter Chargeback Manager associates a cost to a particular metered
following assignable attributes:
user modifies the size, allocation or reservation of the resource.
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