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Figure 4: Billing Line Items
• Compute + License: The compute options and the license option are considered a single billable
item, and they are billed on the time used, measured in hours. The hourly rate is determined by
the plan size. For Early Access, where only BYOL is possible, the license cost is 0 and the line
items for the compute bundle are Small or Medium.
• Primary Storage: During Early Access,150 GB SSD storage is provisioned in full when the
instance is created, however, you only pay for what you use, measured in Gigabyte-Months. This
is the primary storage for the instance, and it is SSD (solid state drive) format. The primary
storage can contain databases, user accounts, and anything else pertinent to the instance. For
example, if you created an instance on the first day of a billing month (VMware uses 30 days for
calculation) and you delete the instance after ten days, you will be charged for roughly 1/3 of a
GB-Month, or ([1 GB-Month] * .33).
• Backup Storage: As shown in Figure 4, the third billed resource is backup storage, which is used
for snapshots created automatically or manually, and transaction logs and differential backups
produced by the instance's PITR feature. This is a simple Pay-as-you-go case where you pay for
the amount you use, based on the length of time you use it. The storage is ordinary disk, and it is
less costly than the primary storage.
4.5.2
Estimating Usage and Cost
Visit the pricing calculator at:
http://vcloud.vmware.com/service-offering/pricing-calculator/sql-calculator
4.5.3
Viewing Usage
You can view the current usage of an instance:
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