To assign prices to resources for enterprises, create pricing models with prices for VM elements.
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- Add your currencies at Pricing → Currencies
- Pre-create cost codes at Pricing → Cost codes to assign to resources, for example, hardware profiles or templates
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To create a pricing model:
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The platform uses the first pricing model for a location in a currency as the set of base prices for the location. If your enterprise has a pricing model, when you create a new pricing model, you can enter a percentage to modify prices, for example, to add a reseller markup. If you then enter a resource price that is lower than the base price, the platform will highlight the price.
Prices
You can enter general prices for all datacenter resources.
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Datastore tiers
You can set prices for datastore tiers.
In a private cloud datacenter, datastore tiers set service levels for storage. See Manage datastore service levels with datastore tiers.
Persistent storage
In a private cloud datacenter, persistent storage tiers set service levels for storage. See Manage StorageIn public cloud regions, the platform automatically imports provider the storage tiers from the providers so you can price them.
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Hardware profiles
You can price hardware profiles in public cloud and in private cloud datacenters with hardware profiles, see Hardware profiles.
The platform can retrieve hardware profile costs from AWS and Azure. See Import hardware profile prices from AWS
In private cloud, you can also use cost codes for hardware profile pricing. Pricing and billing of dynamic hardware profiles also includes the usage cost of CPU and RAM.
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Backup prices
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| title | Click here to display details of create a new pricing model resource prices backup policies |
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Backup prices
In private cloud datacenters and VCD public cloud regions, you can set prices for backup policies.
When users request a pricing estimate for their virtual appliance, the platform will include the price of the backup policies of each VM.
The platform will also include the price of backup services in the VM_PRICES list.
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The platform bills backups with a monthly fixed cost and/or a separate cost for VM disk size in GB (in the platform). For example, if a customer has a VM with 50 GB of hard disk and is using a daily backup policy. If the price for the backup policy is $20 and the price per GB is $1 per GB, the customer will pay $20 + (50 * $1) = $70 per month.
Cost code prices
This tab displays resources and cost codes with their initial prices. You can modify these prices in this new pricing model. The platform will display a warning symbol if you enter a discount of the price in the current pricing model.
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