5.1.2 Platform Billing Integration
The VMware Cloud Provider has a requirement to integrate the solution with their existing billing systems or to report on platform usage effectively to generate billing data to send to their end customers.
The billing integration of this platform can be done in many ways ranging from the following:
• VMware vRealize Business™ – vRealize Business offers the VMware Cloud Provider the ability to meter cloud platform usage for end customers by way of the vSphere platform. This enables the provider to generate billing data that can be entered in an existing billing system or to generate bills from the data based on cloud costing models.
• vCenter Server data – the VMware Cloud Provider can also query the vCenter Server platforms to get all the relevant usage data to populate their billing systems which will generate the appropriate bills for their end customers.