Hi,
We have been struggling with several issues with chargeback with vCloud.
1. We want to charge a fixed cost for each external IP used per VM. Is this possible with Chargeback?
2. We have 3 different storage tiers (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and we want to charge different for disk read/write for each of them. Is this even possible?
3. We also want to include a certain amount of data read/write and network transfer/receive per month for an organisation in vCloud. So we want to set allocation units for each organisation and then add base rates with overage (free up to allocation and over allocation set a cost). Do we have to set these allocation units per VM under the organisation or is it enough to set them for the organisation only?
4. We've seen that when we have the allocation units with overage base rates and generate a cost or utilization report, we get the disk read/write, network rx/tx usage as a summary for the whole organisation and pay as you go pool (in this case). We want them to be per VM. When we generate a regular report without base rate overage and allocation units we get the disk and network usage per VM. Can someone please explain how to solve this without setting allocation units per VM.
5. Let's assume that we want to include a certain amount of vCPU and Memory in a pricing model. We've seen that chargeback data collector seems to add allocation units for each VM based on the VM allocation in vCloud. Are allocation units actually correct to use in order to include a certain amount of resources?
The reason why we don't want to set allocation units per VM is that we don't know when a client create new VMs.
Thanks in advance!