Editing Additional Costs

The additional cost lets you add any additional or extra expense that is not covered by other expenses categorized by
VMware Aria Operations
. No reference value is present for this expense.
  1. From the left menu, click
    Configure
    and then click
    Cost Drivers
    .
  2. In the Cost Driver tab, click
    Additional Costs
    .
  3. Enter or select the cost type for the expenses.
    Additional cost driver allows you to assign costs at Host, vCenter, VM, cluster, or data center level. For example, if you want to keep a cluster protected using the disaster recovery services, which involves an additional cost of $5000, you can do that by editing the additional cost driver.
  4. Select the
    Entity Type
    and
    Entity Selection
    .
    The
    Entity Count
    gets updated.
  5. Enter the
    Monthly Cost per entity
    .
    The
    Total Cost per month
    gets computed automatically.
  6. Click
    Save
    .
    After you update the Additional Cost configuration, you must reload the page manually to view the updated values.