6. vCloud Metering : 6.3 Cost Calculation
   
6.3 Cost Calculation
To track resource metrics for vCloud entities, vCenter Chargeback Manager sets allocation units on vCloud hierarchies based on the parameters of the allocation model configured in vCloud Director. Allocation units are variables associated with chargeback metrics that represent the allocated size of the resource. The following table lists these allocation units.
Table 16. vCloud Hierarchy Allocation Units
Entity
Pay As You Go
Allocation Pool
Reservation Pool
Organization virtual datacenter
None
*CPU
*Memory
*Storage
*CPU
*Memory
*Storage
vApp
None
None
None
Virtual machine
*vCPU
*Memory
*Storage
*vCPU
*Memory
*Storage
*vCPU
*Memory
*Storage
Template
Storage
Storage
Storage
Media file
Storage
Storage
Storage
Independent Disk
Storage
Storage
Storage
Network
*DHCP
*NAT
*Firewall
Count of networks
*DHCP
*NAT
*Firewall
Count of networks
*DHCP
*NAT
*Firewall
Count of networks