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You can enter general prices for datacenter resources.
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Resource prices table
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Currency | The currency for this location (datacenter or public cloud region) |
Hypervisor Datastores GB | Price of hypervisor datastores per gigabyte. In public cloud regions, the platform does not use this value |
Networks | Price per network. (The platform always creates a private network for each virtual datacenter) |
Public IPs | Price per public IP address reserved |
NAT IPs | Price per NAT IP address reserved |
CPU | Price per virtual CPU core for deployed virtual machines. If the location uses hardware profiles, pricing does not use this value. |
CPU on | Price per virtual CPU core when virtual machine is powered ON |
CPU off | Price per virtual CPU core when virtual machine is powered OFF |
Memory (GB) | Price of virtual memory in GB for deployed virtual machine. If the location uses hardware profiles, pricing does not use this value. |
Memory on | Price of virtual memory in GB when virtual machine is powered ON or OFF |
Virtual machine | Fee per VM in addition to charges for other VM items |
Virtual machine on | Fee per VM in addition to charges for other VM items |
Repository (GB) | Price of template repository use in GB for virtual machine templates. The platform does not include conversions. In public cloud regions, the platform does not use this value |
Backup (GB) | Price per gigabyte of backup used. See Backup prices for more details |
Anti-Affinity | Price per VM deployed in anti-affinity layer. In public cloud regions, the platform does not use this value |
Firewall | Price per firewall attached to VM |
Load balancer | Price per load balancer attached to VM |
DR protected VM | Price per VM protected by Disaster Recovery |
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In a private cloud datacenter, datastore tiers set service levels for storage. See Manage datastore service levels with datastore tiers.
Persistent storage
In private cloud, you can set prices for the persistent storage tiers. In public cloud regions, the platform automatically imports the storage tiers from the providers so you can price them.
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In private cloud datacenters and VCD public cloud regions, you can set prices for backup policies. You can also set prices for backups per GB.
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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.
The platform bills backups with a monthly fixed cost and/or a separate cost for backup size.
In Abiquo version 6.1, the platform accounts for usage of backup policies and backup size in GB. For backup size, it adds up the total size of valid (not non-expired) backups as the summed backup size in GB, and it uses the backup price per GB for billing. In previous versions, the platform does not account for backup usage, only the backup policy. Using the backup price (GB) the platform bills based on the VM disk size in GB in the platform.
For example, if a customer has a VM with 50 GB of hard disk, a summed and the size of their non-expired backups of 42GBis 42 GB. And the customer is using a daily backup policy, with the price for the a backup policy price of $20 and . The the backup price per GB of is $1 per GB. In Abiquo 6.1+, the customer will pay $20 + ($42 * $1) = $62 per month
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Before version 6.1, the platform did not account for backup usage, only the backup policy. With the backup price (GB) for the backup policy, the platform used the VM disk size in GB in the platform to calculate the bill. For the above example, in previous versions of Abiquo, the customer would pay $20 + (50 * $1) = $70 per month. |
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Extra charge prices
See Manage extra charges with cost codes
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Troubleshooting
Access to pricing models
When you create a pricing model, Abiquo automatically assigns the same scope as your user. The Abiquo UI does not display the scope of the pricing model
Users with pricing privileges can always display the pricing model of their own enterprise. Administrators who can switch to another enterprise can display the current pricing model of the enterprise, even if the pricing model has a different scope
To display or manage the pricing model of another enterprise in Pricing view, you must have the same scope as the creator of the pricing model