Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.2 User Guide
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Financial Management
The Cloud Provider Technical Administrator (CPBA) is in charge with overseeing and administrating a public or private
cloud as a revenue generating business. This covers determining the mix of services that the public or private cloud is
offering in the market as well as determining the pricing of services and service options.
cloud as a revenue generating business. This covers determining the mix of services that the public or private cloud is
offering in the market as well as determining the pricing of services and service options.
In a multi-tenant cloud, the Tenant Business Administrator (TBA) is the commercial and business authority within the
tenant and represent these concerns to the cloud provider. These responsibilities include negotiating pricing, service
options, service levels and other service terms with the cloud provider and approving high cost service orders by tenant
users.
tenant and represent these concerns to the cloud provider. These responsibilities include negotiating pricing, service
options, service levels and other service terms with the cloud provider and approving high cost service orders by tenant
users.
Note:
, which includes additional information on pricing as it relates
to tenants.
Financial Management Features
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.2 provides the following financial management tools.
Pricing. A method to set pricing on common objects.
Showback. A mechanism to allow users to see the calculated cost of their potential orders during the ordering process.
Run Rates. Both a mechanism for users to see the recurring cost of the items that they own, as well as a mechanism for
administrators to see the recurring cost of the items that their tenants own.
administrators to see the recurring cost of the items that their tenants own.
Billing Integration. Real-time billing events that can be consumed by a billing system within an extension point.
Note:
Cisco IAC does not provide billing (such as invoicing and payment transacting) functionality, nor metering (financial
management based on measured utilization) functionality.
Note:
You have the ability to set one-time rate or recurring for Chef and Puppet during registration. After that, only
recurring will show on Run rate (not one-time costs).
Pricing Models
Volumes and vApps
vApps
For vCloudDirector we have new rate table in 4.2 for vApp Containers that includes all the VMs underneath (within) the
vApp container.
vApp container.
Openstack Volumes
For Cisco IAC 4.2 we are using VMStorage rate table for OpenStack Volumes: $1.0/GB storage per billing cycle.
Physical Servers
For the physical server, we are using PSCPU and PSStorage tables.