Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- vCloud Air - Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
- Contents
- About This User's Guide
- Introducing Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Navigating Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Overview
- Overview of Storage Tiers
- vApp Overview
- End User Virtual Machine Access
- Sort and View Virtual Machines
- Create a Virtual Machine from a Template
- Create a Virtual Machine Without Using a Template
- Virtual Machine Power Operations
- Edit Virtual Machine Properties
- Adjust Virtual Machine Resources
- Add a Disk to a Virtual Machine
- Set Storage and Runtime Leases for a vApp
- Manage Virtual Machine Properties in vCloud Director
- Connect a Virtual Machine to a Network
- Change Network Assignments for a Virtual Machine
- Connect a Virtual Machine to the Internet
- Log Into a Virtual Machine Guest OS with the Console
- Virtual Machine Monitoring
- Work with Virtual Machine Snapshots
- Managing Your Public Cloud Environment
- Capacity for Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Geographical Locations
- About Gateways and Networks
- Virtual Data Center Overview
- Create a Virtual Data Center
- Edit or Delete a Virtual Data Center
- Virtual Data Center Permissions
- Catalogs and Templates Overview
- Manage Catalogs in vCloud Director
- Role-based User Account Management
- Add a User to Your Service
- Edit User Details
- Delete a User from Your Service
- Reset a User's Password
- Managing User Groups
- Metering Resource Usage
- Index
Metering Resource Usage 5
With Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, customers pay nothing up front. They pay for only the services they
actually used, on a metered, charge-back basis, under flexible service agreements, as opposed to fixed-term
contracts.
The pay-as-you-go model enables paying for only the capacity in use, eliminating capital equipment
expenses, over-purchasing, and underutilization. Customers incur charges only when they start to utilize
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand and deploy virtual machines into their environments. If a customer does
not use a resource, the customer does not incur costs.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Resource Usage Overview,” on page 63
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“Ways To View Resource Usage,” on page 65
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“View Resource Usage,” on page 66
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“About Resource Billing,” on page 67
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“About Service Credits,” on page 68
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“About Billing Alerts,” on page 68
Resource Usage Overview
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand offers resource pool-based pay-as-you-go service (versus a virtual
machine instance-based service). Specifically, you have flexibility to define virtual machine deployment
without being required to use pre-defined billable package sizes. You can create virtual machines of
arbitrary sizes and expand them as needed.
Figure 5‑1. Flexible Virtual Machine Resource Deployment
No pre-defined, billable
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