VMware vCenter Chargeback Costing Calcu

About the Cost Calculator File

This cost calculator file includes four worksheets: Introduction, Costs, Capacity, and Recovery.
The Introduction worksheet is the current worksheet. It provides information about the file and
The Costs worksheet defines the initial and recurring costs related to servers, databases, storage
costs.
The Capacity worksheet defines a sample hardware set up.
The Recovery worksheet provides the cost to be charged per virtual machine for the defined fixe
memory, and storage for each virtual machine to recover the hardware costs. The recovery period

How to Use the Cost Calculator?

The cost calculator enables you to calculate the fixed costs to be charged per virtual machine on
identify the base rates for the CPU, memory, and storage to recover the hardware cost over a defi
period. The costs can be calculated by entering values in the yellow colored cells, which are the c
To use this cost calculator:
1. Enter the values for the following in the Costs worksheet:
- Recover Term: The time period in years to recover the initial and recurring costs.
This includes the cost for the hardware and the cost for the software lice
- Number of Servers: The number ESX Server hosts in the cluster.
- Fixed Costs: The initial and recurring costs for the servers, storage, and network and storag
Also enter the costs for VMware product licenses and Microsoft product lice
2. Enter the values for the following in the Capacity worksheet:
- Node Redundancy: Number of ESX Server hosts that are redundant.
- RAM (GB): The total memory in GB per ESX Server host.
- Processors: The number of processors in each ESX Server host.
- Processor (GHz): The processing speed of each processor.
- Tier 2 Storage (GB): The storage capacity in GB.
3. Enter the reservation and over commit percentage for memory and CPU.
4. Enter the values for the following in the Recovery worksheet.
- Total Hours per Month: The number of hours per month to be considered for calculating th
- Hardware Cost Recovered %: The percentage of the total hardware cost recovered by ch
- Total VMs: Total number of virtual machines across the ESX Servers hosts in the cluster.
The fixed cost per virtual machine and the base rate for the memory, CPU, and storage is calculat

VMware vCenter Chargeback - Costing Calculator

Recovery Term (years)

Cluster Characteristics
Number of Servers

Server Cost
Physical Server
VMware License
Microsoft License
Network Connectivity
Storage Connectivty
Total

Recurring
Initial (per
(per server
server)
per year)
$17,392.00 $
$11,500.00 $
$ 6,000.00 $
$
$ 800.00
$
###

Management Platform
vCenter License
Database Cost
Management Total

$10,000.00
$
-

Storage
Tier 2 Storage Cost
Storage Total

$70,000.00

Grand Total

Term Total (per Term Total

server)
(Cluster)
$
17,392.00 $ 139,136.00
$
11,500.00 $
92,000.00
$
6,000.00 $
48,000.00
$
2,400.00 $
19,200.00
$
3,600.00 $
28,800.00
$ 40,892.00 $327,136.00

$
10,000.00
### $
15,000.00
$ 25,000.00

$
70,000.00
$ 70,000.00
$422,136.00

Notes for using the Calculator:

1) Fields colored yellow with BOLD text are meant to be edited/modified
2) Fields in Italics are system generated and should not be edited.

Calculator

Cluster Characteristics
Number of Nodes
Node Redundancy
Effective Capacity
Node Capacity
RAM (GB)
Processors
Processor (GHz)
Storage Capacity
Tier 2 Storage (GB)

8
1
7
Total
Reserves Available Overcommit
128
20%
102.4
10%
4
0%
4
0%
4
20%
3.2
80%

2048

Allocable
112.64
4
5.76

Cluster
788.48
28
40.32

Recovery Cost
Compute Cost
Storage Cost
Fixed Cost
Recovery Total

$
$
$
$

3 Years
139,136.00
70,000.00
213,000.00
422,136.00

Compute Cost Calculation Hardware Cost Recovered %

Capacity
RAM (GB)
70
Processor Speed (GHz)
30

Storage Cost Calculation

Tier 2 Storage (GB)

Storage Cost Recovered %

788.48
40.32

Capacity
100

2048

Total VMs
500
Fixed Cost Calculation
VMware License
Microsoft License
Network Connectivity
Storage Connectivty
vCenter License
Database Cost
Total Fixed Cost

3 Year Cost
$
$
$
$
$
$
$

System Sample
Small
Medium
Large

RAM (GB)

92,000.00
48,000.00
19,200.00
28,800.00
10,000.00
15,000.00
213,000.00

Annual Cost
$
$
$
$
$
$
$

30,666.67
16,000.00
800.00
1,200.00
3,333.33
5,000.00
57,000.00

Processor Speed (GHz)

1
2
4

2
4
8

Total Hours per Month

720

3 Year Cost
Annual Cost
$
123.52 $
$
1,035.24 $

Monthly Cost
41.17 $
345.08 $

Hourly Cost
3.43 $
0.004766
28.76 $
0.039940

3 Year Cost
Annual Cost
$
34.18 $

Monthly Cost
11.39 $

Hourly Cost
0.95 $
0.001319

Monthly Cost
Monthly Cost (Per VM)
$
2,555.56 $
5.11
$
1,333.33 $
2.67
$
66.67 $
0.13
$
100.00 $
0.20
$
277.78 $
0.56
$
416.67 $
0.83
$ 4,750.00 $
9.50

Storage (GB)
20
80
120

Monthly Compute Cost

Monthly Storage Cost
Monthly Fixed Cost
$
60.94 $
18.99 $
9.50
$
121.89 $
75.95 $
9.50
$
243.78 $
113.93 $
9.50

Monthly
$
$
$

Total
Hourly Total
89.43 $
0.12
207.34 $
0.29
367.21 $
0.51

Instantiation
$
1,000.00
$
1,000.00
$
1,000.00