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
Your ability to define resource allocation to your virtual machines combined with the metering approach
VMware employs means you are charged only for the resources you consume.
Data Collection Explained
To calculate resource usage and generate your billing statements, Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
monitors your environment for changes to your virtual machines; such as, creating or deleting a virtual
machine, changing a virtual machine's power state (powering on or off, suspending, or resuming), or
adjusting resources allocated to a virtual machine. Additionally, Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand monitors
your gateways to determine when you allocate or de-allocate public IP addresses to them.
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand aggregates the data from environment changes and displays summary
information in the Resource Usage tab based on the time range you select. See “Ways To View Resource
Usage,” on page 65 for information.
Every hour, Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand sends metering data to My VMware so that VMware can
apply this resource usage to your account for billing. See the My VMware Help ( ) for information.
VMware meters usage of the following resources for your Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand account:
Table 5‑1. Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand Metered Resources
Resource Unit Triggering Events Affecting Billing
vCPU GHz Virtual machine powered on, powered off, or deleted
vRAM GB Virtual machine powered on, powered off, or deleted
Storage GB Storage allocated or de-allocated to a virtual machine
OS and application
licenses
Number Virtual machine deployed using license and powered on, powered off, or
deleted
Public IP addresses Number Public IP addresses allocated or de-allocated to a gateway
Third-Party OS and Application Licenses
You can create virtual machines based on the third-party operating system and application templates in the
VMware Public Catalog. See “Catalogs and Templates Overview,” on page 55 for information.
As indicated in the VMware Public Catalog, some templates are paid templates ( ). These paid templates
correspond to license SKUs in My VMware. See the My VMware Help ( ) for information.
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand meters license usage hourly and charges accrue when the virtual
machines running the licensed software are powered on. To calculate your billing statement, VMware
applies the following metrics to determine charges for licensed software:
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Charges per hour
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Time: minutes the virtual machine is powered on
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vCPU Support Rating: a usage multiplier for third-party licensed templates to calculate license charges
for your billing statement
When you configure a virtual machine to run more or less vCPUs than specified by the vCPU Support
Rating, VMware applies the usage multiplier.
NOTE The vCPU Support Rating is not a guideline to recommend virtual machine resource
configuration.
The following example shows how the metrics apply to determine licensing charges:
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You create a virtual machine using the paid template for Microsoft Windows 2012 SQL Server 2008.
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