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VMware-based Public Cloud payment and pricing model

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Balance

To pay for public cloud resources, depending on the account's balance type, a single balance or a VMware-based cloud balance is used.

You can pay for the public cloud using different types of funds: basic funds or bonuses.

Before connecting the public cloud (creating a virtual data center), top up your balance by at least 1 000 ₽.

To ensure there are always enough funds in your balance, you can configure balance status notifications and automatic balance top-ups.

Payment model

The VMware-based public cloud is paid for using a pay-as-you-go model — payment for consumed resources is deducted every hour. Funds begin to be deducted from your balance after the successful creation of a virtual data center.

If you create vApp templates, you pay for storage resources — all disks of the virtual machines in that template.

If all virtual machines in a virtual data center are turned off, Edge gateways, networks, routed addresses, and licenses continue to be charged. When one virtual machine out of several is turned off, charges for disk usage continue.

You can stop payments by cancelling your public cloud — to do this, delete your virtual data centers.

Learn more about payment in the Terms of Service.

Resource locking if there are insufficient funds in the balance

If there are insufficient funds in the balance to pay for consumed resources, access to the virtual data center is suspended. However, public cloud resources (vCPU, memory, 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 the balance:

  • within 5 days — virtual machines will be shut down;
  • within 14 days — all virtual machines and other resources will be deleted without the possibility of recovery.

Prices

You can view resource prices and calculate the approximate cost of a VMware-based public cloud using the calculator at selectel.ru.

When calculating costs, all virtual machine configuration parameters (vCPU, RAM, disk size) are summed up. For stopped virtual machines, only disks are taken into account. Once an hour, the maximum value of the resource sums is selected and multiplied by the hourly resource cost, which is then deducted from the balance.

View consumption

You can view your infrastructure costs, consumption, and cloud resource payments in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption.

Current cost

Current cost is the amount of money that the current VMware cloud infrastructure configuration consumes per month, day, or hour.

You can view the current cost of resources in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption → Current cost tab.

Consumption and payment charts

You can view compute resource consumption and payment charts in the Control panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption → Cost graph tab.

You can view resource consumption and payments and sort them by time period.

To download consumption and payment details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how the rows in the export will be grouped (by hour, day, week, month, year).

All resource locks are displayed on consumption and payment charts ( **Consumed * *** and Paid tabs **).

Consumption report

You can generate and download a report on the consumption of paid resources for any period of time.

You can generate a report in the control panel: in the top menu click Products → VMware-based cloud → Consumption → tab Consumption report. In the report you can display resource costs by year, month, week, day, or hour.

Reporting documents

After payment, you can retrieve reporting documents.