Defining and managing on-premises costs

Use the On-premises Costs Definition tab in the Cloud Cost Control Settings page to define the monthly costs of instances (VMs or standalone systems) in your on-premises environment. This tab contains the default cost rates of factors that are considered to compute the cost of an on-premises instance. These default cost rates are estimated by using the Cost Estimator input values. You can provide details of your environment to estimate your monthly cost rates.

The cost of an instance is computed based on various factors such as compute, storage, network, virtualization system, database, operating system, and so on. The default cost rates of these factors are available out-of-the-box when you install the product. You can modify the default cost rates in the On-premises Costs Definition tab. You can also specify generic cost that the predefined factors do not account for.

For a detailed procedure, see Defining on-premises costs.

The default cost estimates of these factors are estimated by using the Cost Estimator input values.

To define and manage the cost of an on-premises instance

Ensure that you have installed Cloud Cost Control and have the required permissions to edit the Settings page. For more information, see Managing users and access control.

1. Log on to the Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard.
2. Expand the left navigation pane and select Cloud Cost Control.
   The Cloud Cost Control page is displayed.
3. Click  Settings > Settings. 
   The Settings page is displayed. 
4. Click the On-premises Costs Definition tab. 

5. Click the Settings action menu and select Edit.
   The Settings page is refreshed and the fields in the Infrastructure Costs per Month section are displayed in the edit mode. 

   Factor	Description
   Hardware	Monthly cost of the system resources: Physical CPU Virtual CPU Memory Storage
   Software	Monthly cost per server for various computing platforms, for example, virtualization platforms and operating systems.

   These infrastructure cost values are calculated using the values provided in the Cost Estimator Inputs section. If required, you can override the calculated values by directly modifying the unit costs in the Infrastructure Costs per Month panel. The values are re-calculated when you modify any of the values in the Cost Estimator Inputs section and click Estimate costs.

   

6. Click Save.

   The Settings page is saved with the changes that you made. These settings are applied from the day you make the changes. 
   

To estimate your on-premises costs

Use the Cost Estimator Inputs section to estimate the monthly cost rates of your physical and virtual resources. This section contains the on-premises environment characteristics such as a number of hosts, number of VMs, and operating systems, which are considered to estimate the default cost rates. 

The Measured from imported data pane in the Physical Servers and Virtualized Servers panels displays the values calculated based on the imported data in your environment. By default, the cost values in the Physical and Virtualized Servers panels are calculated and displayed based on this measured data. You can choose to override the measured data and modify the values as per your requirement to re-estimate the costs.

The infrastructure cost values are calculated when you modify any of the values in this section and click Estimate costs.

Review the following tables to understand the input fields provided to calculate your monthly cost rates.