VMware Cloud Foundation Metering and Reporting #

Configuration #

The Usage Meter administrator configures a vCenter and selects any of the VCF license editions to enable VCF for metering. Metering Time-based average of host CPU core count aggregated by the following different VCF editions:

• VMware Cloud Foundation for Cloud Providers Standard
• VMware Cloud Foundation for Cloud Providers Advanced
• VMware Cloud Foundation for Cloud Providers Enterprise
• VMware Cloud Foundation for Cloud Providers Standard without vSAN
• VMware Cloud Foundation for Cloud Providers Advanced without vSAN
• VMware Cloud Foundation for Cloud Providers Enterprise without vSAN

Time-based average capped billed vRAM GB per VM VCF edition:

• VMware Cloud Foundation for SDDC Manager

Feature Detection #

When metering VMware Cloud Foundation, Usage Meter performs two types of usage collections: event-based collections and inventory collections. What is reported are the host core CPUs and vRAM. Host core CPUs are collected from vCenter event-based collections and inventory collections. vRAM is collected from vCenter usage collections.

Host Core Reporting #

Usage is calculated on a per ESXi host level for the duration the host is in use. The logic applies to editions with or without vSAN. Avg number of Cores = (sum of cores consumed per-hourly collections) / (hours in month)

• If at least one VM is running on a host (VM is in powered-on state), the host cores are reported for the duration of the VM is powered-on.
• If a host, whether it’s been modified, added, or placed into migration mode (i.e., host state changes)
• If a host is running with no powered-on VMs, the host cores will not be reported no matter if storage is consumed or not. Change of the VCF edition: Edition is applied to all cores of a host for the duration the edition is configured. When the VCF edition changes, the new edition is immediately applied to all cores of the host.

vRAM Reporting #

Usage is calculated as an average of the hourly vRAM usage over a month on vSphere instances marked as Rental (the same as vCenter). Avg Capped Billed vRAM (GB) = (sum of consumed GB per-hourly collections) / (hours in month) Hourly GB = min(max(memorySizeMB/2,reserved-memoryReservation),memory cap) memory cap = 24 * 1024 (24 GBs)

• Only powered-on VMs will be reported.
• Only one edition, SDDC Manager, will be reported as a vRAM metering.
• It is an add-on product, separate from the host core metering. It is not bundled with any other product.

Sample Monthly Usage Report #

Monthly Usage Units