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Introduction to pricing per datacenter and reseller support
The pricing feature enables you to:
Differentiate your cloud offer by location with different resource prices per private cloud datacenter and public cloud region
Public cloud pricing by hardware profile will be introduced in future versions
Use separate pricing for CPUs and RAM when VMs are ON or OFF
Add pricing for local datastore tiered storage
Display the current virtual appliance price at any time, simply by clicking the virtual appliance estimate button
Include a list of prices per VM in the estimate message with the VM_PRICES variable
And for Reseller pricing
A pricing model has an automatic scope (the same as the creating user's scope), so pricing users can manage only their own models for their own tenants
Users with pricing privileges can always view the pricing model assigned to their own enterprise
The reseller's resource prices are the base prices and the reseller can mark them up (or down) in each new pricing model for their customers
Upgrade note: When you upgrade from 3.8.x to 3.10, Abiquo will assign the prices of an existing pricing model to each individual datacenter now in the pricing model.
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Abiquo controls access to pricing models with scope, according to these rules
When a user creates a pricing model, Abiquo automatically assigns the user's tenant scope. This scope cannot be changed
Abiquo only allows users with the same tenant scope (who can administer exactly the same customers) to manage the user's pricing models
All users with pricing privileges can view the pricing model assigned to their own tenant
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Pricing per datacenter
When you create a pricing model, first enter the general information.
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You can set a separate price for each datastore tier and external storage tier.
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And you can set prices for cost codes for VM templates as before.
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