Display a pricing estimate

To obtain a pricing estimate for deploying a complete virtual appliance now:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → Virtual appliances and open a virtual appliance
2. Click the $ Estimate button. The Estimate button will have code for your currency or the default $ dollar symbol.

• The pricing message may also display when you deploy the virtual appliance. 
• API users can also request a pricing message through the API. 

The virtual appliance and VM pricing estimates only include the costs that are directly related to VMs. The virtual datacenters resources estimate includes other costs such as the VLAN cost, and the cost of datastore disks without a datastore tier, such as a cloud-init ISO. The VDC resources cost also includes public IP addresses because they are billed for the time of reservation, which may be longer than the time they are attached to a VM.

Screenshot: pricing estimate button

This screenshot shows an example pricing message.