What’s New in VMware Chargeback v8.10 On-Prem and SaaS for VMware Cloud Director

We are happy to announce the General Availability of VMware Chargeback™ 8.10 On-Prem, previously referred to as vRealize Operations Tenant App™, masking new pricing and metering capabilities.

VMware Chargeback v8.10 is included for cloud suppliers with the acquisition of VMware Cloud Director™. Partners considering studying extra can attain out to their VMware gross sales crew.

Before we dive in additional to know what’s new with this launch, please word:

• vRealize Operations Tenant App is now rebranded to VMware Chargeback.
• The earlier launch of the vRealize Operations Tenant App was v8.6, and the following launch is the present one, VMware Chargeback v8.10.
• VMware Chargeback is now out there as a SaaS providing, The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providing can be out there as early entry, with restricted availability, with the acquisition or trial of the VMware Cloud Director™ service. See, Announcing VMware Chargeback for Managed Service Providers Blog.

What is VMware Chargeback?

VMware Chargeback permits metering and chargeback capabilities, together with offering visibility into infrastructure utilization by efficiency and capability dashboards for the suppliers and tenants.

To assist Cloud Providers and tenants realise extra worth for each greenback they spend on infrastructure (ROI) (and in flip present related worth to their tenants), our focus is to not solely broaden the protection of companies that may be priced in VMware Chargeback, but additionally to offer visibility into the price of infrastructure to suppliers, and billing abstract to organizations, clearly highlighting the price incurred by numerous enterprise items.

What’s New in VMware Chargeback v8.10 on-prem and VMware Chargeback service?

Bill abstract for organizations and visibility into infrastructure price

Bill abstract for organizations 

In addition to charging the assorted enterprise items or producing payments on the group VDC stage, suppliers may present a invoice abstract at a company stage, clearly segregating the price incurred by the assorted enterprise items. In addition to organization-level payments performing as a abstract, it might additionally assist suppliers cost for assets consumed at a company stage relatively than at a person enterprise unit stage.

Visibility into infrastructure price

Providers can now see the assorted price metrics, reminiscent of unallocated price, within the totally different overview sections. The whole worth and price visibility is supposed to present suppliers a way of Profit and loss for his or her infrastructure investments.

Note: The above screenshot is simply an instance from one of many dashboards. Cost visibility is accessible in numerous locations like dashboards, reviews, billing, and many others.!

Pricing growth to new companies

Pricing NSX Advanced Load Balancer/ AVI Load Balancer 

Providers can now cost for consumption of NSX® Advanced Load balancer™ primarily based on throughput. They can create slabs with totally different charges for throughput values.

Pricing Cloudian Storage

Providers can now cost for consumption of Cloudian storage, primarily based on storage. They can create slabs with totally different charges for storage values. Billable solely on the group stage.

UI Enhancements

Operations Overview Dashboard Enhancements

To guarantee suppliers and their tenants get fast entry to related info, Operations Overview Dashboard has been up to date. The dashboards Overviews and Pricing Policy part have been revamped to offer a extra intuitive sequential circulate within the pricing coverage and to incorporate important metrics on the house web page.

Filter Option on listing view Dashboards

Have a big buyer base and stock? You can now filter any out there merchandise in a listing view and discover the objects shortly and simply.

What are the extra choices out there solely within the VMware Chargeback service providing?

Getting Started Page (VMware Chargeback service Only)

In the VMware Chargeback service providing to get began with the chargeback service, you’ll be guided on learn how to carry out a step-by-step configuration course of to start out accumulating the information.

Bill Data Retention (VMware Chargeback service Only)

View and handle historic information retention-related system settings. Users can tune these settings to handle space for storing consumed by the VMware Chargeback Service. You can configure the variety of days to retain the generated payments.

Auto Discovery (VMware Chargeback service Only)

VMware Chargeback service will auto-discover the Cloud Director service cases on the time of preliminary configuration. After that, the Cloud Director service cases may be found with a single click on.

Supportability

Cloud Providers ought to use VMware Chargeback on-prem for managing VMware Cloud Director (VCD) and word that VMware Chargeback service will assist metering VMware Cloud Director™ service (CDs) as of this launch.

Licensing updates

• VMware Chargeback backed by vRealize Operations with Standard license will now embody OOTB dashboard entry for Organization, Organization VDC, vApps, Virtual Machines, and many others., by default to the suppliers and tenants.
• Previously solely a supplier admin may choose the metrics from the Metrics selector sections. However, with this launch, the potential can also be being prolonged to the tenants.

Upgrade Path for VCD Mode

You can obtain VMware Chargeback on-prem v8.10 from right here.

No Upgrades are carried out for VC mode at present.

Compatibility with vRealize Operations

• Only vRealize Operations v8.10 can be suitable with VMware Chargeback v8.10 as a result of there are numerous pricing and billing engine updates in vRealize Operations 8.10, that are utilized by VMware Chargeback 8.10.
• If any buyer just isn’t in a state to improve to VMware Chargeback v8.10 and desires to make use of vRealize Operations v8.10, then on case to case foundation, a hotfix can be launched.

Note: VMware Chargeback versioning quantity will align with vRealize Operations versioning.

VMware Cloud Director Compatibility

VMware Cloud Director variations 10.2.2, 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, and 10.4.0 are suitable as of this launch date. For future VMware Cloud Director launch assist and compatibility, please check with the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix.

What subsequent?

For extra particulars and understanding see the next documentation:

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Please contact the Product Manager at ankrishna@vmware.com for any detailed queries associated to VMware Chargeback on-prem.