Pricing for VMware Aria Automation
Components in VMware Aria
Operations
VMware Aria
Operations
After you integrate VMware Aria Automation private cloud adapter instances with
VMware Aria
Operations
, you can calculate the cost of deployments, projects, and virtual
machines of the selected cloud adapter. Pricing provides an overview of the costs related to
the cloud environment, cloud resources, and the costs associated with the
project.How the Pricing Works in
vRealize
Automation
vRealize
Automation
- VMware Aria Operationsunderstands the constructs defined invRealize Automationand calculates the CPU, RAM, Storage and Additional prices for Projects, Deployments, and virtual machines.
- A single project can have multiple deployments and a single deployment can have multiple virtual machines associated with the deployment.
- Pricing for multiple virtual machines associated with the deployment is the sum of all the resources associated with individual virtual machines.
- If a single project has multiple deployments, then the project pricing is equal to the sum of individual deployments. The deployment can have multiple virtual machines and resources associated with it.
- On day one, the pricing is equal to the cost of resources defined inVMware Aria Operations.
- On day two, the price is calculated using the following formula.
- Cost of resources for the present day – Cost of resources for the previous day
- If in case the pricing does not happen as per the definition, then the partial price is set to true, and the pricing is calculated based on the previous days price.
- InVMware Aria Operations, the following new dashboards are included to view the pricing details for thevRealize Automationinstances.
- Cloud Automation Environment Overview
- Cloud Automation Project Cost Overview
- Cloud Automation Resource Consumption Overview
- Cloud Automation Top-N Dashboard
Data Collection Enhancements in
vRealize
Automation for Pricing in
VMware Aria
Operations
vRealize
Automation
for Pricing in
VMware Aria
Operations
The following enhancements have been made
for the data collection process from
vRealize
Automation
for pricing purposes.- Collect cloud zones with relation to clusters and resources pools fromvRealize AutomationtoVMware Aria Operations.
- Collect Projects fromvRealize Automationwith relation to deployments.
- Include project, cloud zone, and blueprint as properties in virtual machines that are deployed invRealize Automation.
Upfront Price Support for
vRealize
Automation Private Cloud
Components
vRealize
Automation
Private Cloud
ComponentsVMware Aria
Operations
supports upfront pricing for vRealize
Automation
8.x in the following ways:- VMware Aria Operationsuses rate cards to provide upfront cost estimates of catalog items just before deployment.
- vRealize Automationretrieves the deployment cost and estimated cost fromVMware Aria Operations.
- vRealize Automationuser interface allows you to customize the pricing policies and assign them to the projects or cloud zones.
- IfvRealize Automationdoes not specify the pricing policy, then the price is calculated using theVMware Aria Operationscost calculation policy.
- If a custom pricing policy is set for a price calculation, then the deployment and upfront catalog price computation is done as per the custom policy.
Upfront Price Support for VMware
Cloud on AWS Resources
VMware Aria
Operations
supports upfront pricing for VMware Cloud on
AWS
resources in the following
ways:- VMware Aria Operationssupports upfront pricing forVMware Cloud on AWSonly if rate-based pricing is configured invRealize AutomationforVMware Cloud on AWSresources.
- VMware Aria Operationsdoes not support cost-based computation forVMware Cloud on AWSresources.