Hi Nergal, Apologies for comming back late on your query. Please find the below answers for your questions number - 1,2,3. I need more info on 4th and 5th questions. 1. We want to charge ...
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Hi Nergal, Apologies for comming back late on your query. Please find the below answers for your questions number - 1,2,3. I need more info on 4th and 5th questions. 1. We want to charge a fixed cost for each external IP used per VM. Is this possible with Chargeback? No, Currently ChargeBack cannot charge FC for each IP used per VM as Charge Backdoes not store external IP related information. ChargeBack applies the defined rates for the External Network accessed but not for specific external IP used by VM. However, Charge Back can apply FC for External Network accessed. This can be achieved as mentioned below, Tag the VM's which access the External Network by adding a attribute at hierarchy level. Creating a FC cost with desired value add to pricing model and Under Rules Tab of Pricing Model configure FC to applied to the Attribute which is created in point 1. Once the report is generated, One time FC is charged for Vm's which accessed External Network with the help of Attribute. 2. We have 3 different storage tiers (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and we want to charge different for disk read/write for each of them. Is this even possible? Yes, this is possible in ChargeBack. Under Settings we need to select Profile based "Storage Infrastructure Costing" as profile based. And then we need Create a Pricing model which is configured to bill for Disk read/write. And then go to "Configure cost" tab --> "Edit Infrastructure cost" and select storage profile and assign the Pricing model. Now, We have configured ChargeBack to bill for a Particular Storage policy for Disk Read/Write. (Note- This can be done only when CBM-VC config and not CBM-VCD config) 3. We also want to include a certain amount of data read/write and network transfer/receive per month for an organisation in vCloud. So we want to set allocation units for each organisation and then add base rates with overage (free up to allocation and over allocation set a cost). Do we have to set these allocation units per VM under the organisation or is it enough to set them for the organisation only? Yes, Query in Point3 can be achieved in current ChargeBack. VM allocation can be set organisation level. First, billing policy has to be created for data read/write and network transmitted /received as allocation then this Billing Policy has to be added to a Pricing model. In Pricing Model - Base Rates tab, Select Overage for data read/write and network transmitted /received and set the "Upto Allocation Units, Charge" to zero USD/GB per hour. Set "Beyond allocation, Charge" to desired value and save the setting. Now, Go to "Manage Hierarchy" Tab and selected the Organisation Unit, Right click and select "Set Allocation Units". Now set the desired value which needs to be exempted for data read/write and network transmitted /received and Save the settings. With the above configuration in ChargeBack, Up to the allocated Units @ Organisation level for the resource types selected the charges will not be applied once the set allocation is crossed then ChargeBack applies for base rate set in the Pricing Model. Can you please come back to us with a example for th question. This would help to answer the question precisely. We would need some more time to answer your 4th question. Thanks Pramod.