This dashboard enables chargeback of VM prices based on selected VM groups. The following object types can be used to select group of VMs: Cloud Director Instance, Organization, Organization VDC and vApp.

With VMware Aria Operations, there are two ways of looking at looking at VMs from a financial perspective. The first is cost, which is how much you, as the provider of the infrastructure for the VM, spend to run the VM on behalf of your customer. In VMware Aria Operations, you configure Cost Drivers to let the system automatically determine how much a VM costs based on what your infrastructure costs. Cost Drivers cover server hardware, storage, licenses, application, maintenance, labor, network, facilities, and additional costs configured within VMware Aria Operations.

Price is how much you charge your customer for running their VM. The price of a VM can be based on the cost of the VM or based on a rate card that you define. Prices can include upcharges, profit, service charges, etc.

Documentation for configuring pricing cards for VMware Aria Automation managed VMs is available

here

. For all other VMs, documentation for configuring

pricing cards

for all other VMs is available

here

Select an object in the Select a VMware Cloud Director Instance, Select an Organzation, Select an Organization VDC and Select a vApp widgets to view the price of the group. Price Summary of Selected Group shows the month to date price of the group. VM Price Distribution (Top 100) shows the most expensive VMs in the group. Powered Off VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings. Idle VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings. VMs with Snapshots shows reclaimable snapshots and their age. Price of VMs in the Selected Group shows the price and configuration of each VM in the selected group.