VMware-based public cloud payment and pricing model
Balance
A single balance or VMware-based cloud balance is used to pay for public cloud resources, depending on the balance type in the account.
You can pay for the public cloud with different types of funds: basic funds, bonuses.
Before connecting to the public cloud (creating a virtual data center) , top up your balance by at least 1,000 ₽.
To ensure that you always have enough money on your balance, you can set up balance notifications and auto-replenishment.
Payment Model
VMware-based public cloud is paid on a pay-as-you-go model — payment for consumed resources is deducted every hour.Money starts to be deducted from the balance after successful creation of the virtual data center.
If you create vApp templates, you pay for storage resources — all virtual machine disks of that template.
If all virtual machines in the virtual data center are powered off, Edge routers, networks, routed addresses, and licenses continue to be charged. If you shut down one virtual machine out of several, disk usage charges continue.
You can stop the payment by opting out of the public cloud — to do this, remove the virtual data centers.
More details about payment in the Terms of Use.
Blocking of resources if there is not enough money on the balance
If there is not enough money on the balance to pay for the consumed resources, access to the virtual data center is suspended. At the same time, public cloud resources (vCPU, memory, disks, Edge routers, IP addresses, Direct Connected subnets) continue to be charged.
Top up your balance to restore access.
If you don't recharge:
- within 5 days — virtual machines will be shut down;
- within 14 days — all virtual machines and other resources will be deleted without possibility of recovery.
Prices
To view resource prices and calculate the approximate cost of a VMware-based public cloud using the calculator, visit selectel.ru.
When calculating the cost, 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 resource amounts is selected and multiplied by the resource cost per hour, which will be deducted from the balance.
View Consumption
You can view your infrastructure cost, consumption, and cloud resource charges in the Control panel: from the top menu, click Products →VMware-based Cloud →Consumption.
Present value
Present Value is the amount of money that the current VMware cloud infrastructure configuration consumes per month, day, or hour.
You can view the current resource cost in the Control Panel: from the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Consumption → Current Cost tab.
Consumption and payment schedules
You can view graphs of compute resource consumption and charges in the Control Panel: from the top menu, click Products →VMware-based Cloud →Consumption →Consumption →Cost Graph tab.
You can see the consumption and payment of resources and sort them by time period.
To upload consumption and payment details in .csv format, click Download CSV and select how the rows will be grouped in the upload (by hours, days, weeks, months, years).
All resource locks are displayed on the consumption and payment schedules ( Consumed and Paid tabs ).
Consumption report
You can generate and upload a report on the consumption of paid resources for any period of time.
You can generate a report in the Control Panel: from the top menu, click Products →VMware-based Cloud →Consumption →Consumption Report tab .In the report, you can display the cost of resources per year, month, week, day, or hour.
Reporting documents
Reporting documents are available after payment.