Basic allocation cost/usage report

[Slingsh0t]

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to wrap my head around Chargeback manager but struggling a little bit here.

Hopefully someone can offer some advice as to how I can achieve what I'm after so I'll provide the basic overview:  I charge customers an amount based on the number of vCPU's, GB RAM and GB Storage allocated.  For instance, 1 allocated vCPU may be $50 per month and 2 allocated vCPUs may be $100 per month, etc... Memory might be something like $20 per GB allocated per month.  A VM with 1 vCPU, 2GB memory and 20GB storage might total something like $110 per month, whether the VM is powered on or off, or actively used or not used.

So what I would like to do, is be able to create a heirachy that consists of a resource pool (with child VMs), and run a report that spits out the above metrics in a nice output showing how much to charge based on the actual hardware allocated to the VMs.

Thanks in advance!

P.S.  Also is there a way to just get the cost results as a flat $50 instead of $2.40 if I only ran the report on a single VM for the duration of a day?

[rponomar]

When you create your hierarchy and populate it with the individual VM entities, right click each VM entity and select the option "Set Allocation Units".  Now that you can enter in values for that VM so it has 1 vCPU, 2GB memory, and 20GB of storage associated with it.

Create a pricing model that uses "Allocation Based" billing policy.  Also in that same pricing model set the "Base Rates" to whatever you want to charge.

Hope this helps.