Before writing about vCloud Usage Meter, I thought to brief VSPP Program which is strongly related to Usage Meter.
All the details
through this post are based on VSPP Product Guide (VMware Q4 2012).
This program is
offered by VMware to License VMware products through a points based model. Its
combining two components which are points per product and points per reserved Virtual
RAM (vRAM).
If you subscribe for
VSPP program, a VM running in your cloud infrastructure with 5GB reserved vRAM
can be charged 50 points. Another example, vShield Edge VM with 3GB reserved
vRAM be charged 4 points as product and 30 points for vRAM, i.e. the total points
for this VM will be 34 points.
How this works?
VSPP program offers
three Bundles as below:
- VMware vCloud Service Provider Bundle - Premier Edition
- VMware vCloud Service Provider Bundle - Standard Edition
Each bundle will
charge different number of points per reserved vRAM per month. In addition,
each bundle will include a different set of VMware products. Therefore, its up
to service provider to subscribe with the suitable bundle based on his product
needs.
Note: Minimum vRAM reservation to be charged is 50% of VM vRAM even if reservation isn't configured. Maximum reservation to be charged is 24 GB.
In addition, each
VMware product will be charged some points per month independently from the
bundle.
Points per Product
and Points per Reserved vRAM are summarized in table below.
The products per
bundle can be summarized as below:
Note that you
will be getting technical support with all plans
For example, vFabric
Suite Advanced total points is the total points used for the infrastructure
based on one of the vCloud bundles plus the total points used for vFabric Suite
Advanced itself.
The calculation for
reserved vRAM points is straight forward but can be more complex if the
reserved vRAM changes during the month. Therefore, VMware provided this formula
to calculate points per month:
Net points = (vGB hours X points per 1 GB reserved
RAM)/hours per month
Hours per Month can
be:
28-day months = 672 hours
29-day months = 696 hours
30-day months = 720 hours
31-day months = 744 hours
Example:
During one 30-day
calendar month, a Service Provider uses the vCloud Service Provider Bundle –
Premier Edition to configure his or her virtual machine with 16 vGB for 15 days
and 48 vGB for the remaining 15 days. The reservation level for the virtual machine
is set at 75 percent for the entire month.
15 days x 24 hours x 16 vGB x 0.75 = 4,320 vGB hours
15 days x 24 hours x 24 vGB (48 vGB x 0.75 but capped
at 24GB) = 8,640 vGB hours
Total vGB hours = 12,960 vGB hours
Total points = 12,960 vGB hours ÷ 720 hours/month x 7
points (for Premier) = 126 points
All of the VSPP
Products must be installed and used solely by the Service Provider on their
owned or leased hardware and premises as part of a multi-tenant Hosted IT
Service with the following exception:
There are multiple
Point Packages Per Month offered by VMware Authorized Aggregators (360, 1,800,
3,600, 10,800, 18,000 or 30,000). You need to subscribe for the suitable one
based on your estimated usage and plan.
Reporting
Each
service provider should report the total reserved vRAM hours every month as
well as the products running in the Cloud environment to the aggregator. The
aggregator will calculate the total points per month based on above formula.
Any excess points above the monthly package will be charged. Reporting to
aggregator can be done using the following methods:
- Separate license keys must be identified by the vCloud Usage Meter in order to meter the Cloud Test Demonstration Environment to report usage information to their Aggregator.
- SRM servers must be identified and linked to vCenter Servers in order to report on protected virtual machines.
- All other VSPP Products must be manually reported to the Aggregator under the specific data collection process outlined by the Aggregator
The total of these
submissions will be used by the Aggregator to calculate the total point usage
for the month
Note: The
Service Provider Agreement requires Service Provider to record all data related
to points reporting which we mentioned above for a minimum of 3 years
There are other
benefit s provided by VMware to VSPP Partners. You may refer to this link for
further details about the program.
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