2.4 Metering and Service Reporting
For service providers running VMware Powered Public Cloud environments, resource metering and service reporting are essential for calculating service costs that can be charged to their end customers through their billing mechanisms. It is extremely important to be able to report on metrics, such as compute usage and allocation, storage usage and allocation, network usage, and one-off costs, such as management and operations, where applicable.
The following table provides examples of workload virtual machine sizing and costing. The provider can create any combination of sizing and specification or alternatively allow the end user to configure explicit specifications.
Table 6. Workload Virtual Machine Sizing and Cost Examples
VM Type | Sizing | Storage | Core Cost Model | Fixed Costs |
Extra Large | 8 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | 400 GB | Provision cost ($) | Operate cost ($) |
Large | 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM | 200 GB | Provision cost ($) | Operate cost ($) |
Medium | 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | 60 GB | Provision cost ($) | Operate cost ($) |
Small | 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | 30 GB | Provision cost ($) | Operate cost ($) |
Extra Small | 1 vCPU, 500 MB RAM | 15 GB | Provision cost ($) | Operate cost ($) |
Custom | Any | Any | Provision cost ($) | Operate cost ($) |