VMware-based Disaster Recovery Payment Model and Prices
Balance
To pay for VMware-based disaster recovery (DRaaS), depending on the account balance type, either a unified balance or a VMware-based cloud balance is used.
You can pay for the public cloud with different types of funds: basic funds or bonuses.
Before ordering or setting up disaster recovery, top up your balance.
To ensure there is always enough money in your balance, you can configure balance notifications and automatic balance top-ups.
Payment Model
DRaaS is billed using the pay-as-you-go model — each hour, the amount for consumed public cloud resources where replicated virtual machines are hosted is deducted. Billing starts from the moment the virtual data center is created.
DRaaS is billed as long as replicated virtual machines are stored in the Selectel cloud, even if they are turned off. For turned-off machines, you are charged 30% of the vCPU and RAM cost; other resources are charged at full price.
To stop payment, disable replication and delete the virtual data center.
Block resources if there is not enough money in the balance
If there is not enough money in the balance to pay for consumed resources, access to the virtual data center is suspended. However, public cloud resources (vCPU, RAM, disks, Edge gateways, IP addresses, Direct Connected subnets) continue to be charged.
To restore access, top up your balance.
If you do not top up your balance within 14 days, all virtual machines and other resources will be deleted and cannot be recovered.
Prices
You can view resource prices and estimate the cost of using DRaaS using the calculator at selectel.ru.
The cost of DRaaS consists of the cost of public cloud resources:
- vCPU and RAM;
- disks;
- Edge gateways;
- IP addresses;
- number of days of operation in the cloud during a disaster.
View consumption
You can view consumption of all public cloud resources, including DRaaS resources, in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption, see the VMware-based Public Cloud Payment Model and Prices.
Accounting documents
After being charged for DRaaS usage, you can obtain accounting documents.