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  • Add your currencies at Pricing → Currencies.

    • Note that a customer of a reseller will use the same currency as the reseller

  • Pre-create cost codes at Pricing → Extra charges to assign to resources, for example, hardware profiles or templates

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Field

Description

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
Memory off (GB)

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
Virtual machine off

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, which is the total size of valid (non-expired) backups in GB.
For example, a customer has a VM with 50 GB of hard disk, and the size of their non-expired backups is 42 GB.The customer will be billed ($42 * $1) = $42 per month.

To charge for backup policies and/or backup size (based on VM disk), see

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.

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Persistent storage

In public cloud regions, the platform automatically imports the storage tiers from the providers so you can price them.

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Tip

In Abiquo 6.1+ we recommend that you use the billing for backups per GB feature, where you can set a price on the main datacenter Resource prices tab.
See Billing for backups per GB

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The platform can bill backups with a monthly fixed cost per policy and/or a separate cost for price per GB. With To activate billing for this feature, in Configuration view for on-premise billing, select the Backup policy usage.

For the backup price (GB) for the per GB of a backup policy, the platform uses the VM disk size in GB in the platform to calculate the bill.

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