As can be imagined, there are several variants of infrastructure that can be sold by these partners such as “Pay as you go”, “Raw capacity” aka “Allocation based”, “Raw capacity with minimum guarantee” aka “Reservation based”. Potentially combination of these could be offered to same tenants. It becomes challenging to track usage over a period and charge appropriately due to this complexity. In addition, tenants demand for a transparency in this billing, and it is imperative that service providers offer it.
vRealize Operations Tenant App (TA) sets out to solve these problems by metering the infrastructure. Further, it provides options to configure different models for pricing this metered infrastructure. Finally, it closes the loop by providing tenant specific views that help tenants validate their charges by looking at usage.
