Hi Everyone,

We know the Cloudability supports all major public clouds and for other public clouds provides cost analysis via FOCUS.  In similar way, is it also capable to analyze private cloud data ?

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

We know the Cloudability supports all major public clouds and for other public clouds provides cost analysis via FOCUS.  In similar way, is it also capable to analyze private cloud data ?

Thanks

Yep, per @Blake Hamrick this can be done with considerations for CSUM, you will need to find a way to query (for example VCSA or vCenter) as well as come up with a mechanism for how you cost your private cloud, and, at what intervals you capture that data - remember if a VM moves between hosts its important not to capture it multiple times in a day (unless your costing mechanism is on an hourly basis and you export costs hourly). 

Hi Everyone,

We know the Cloudability supports all major public clouds and for other public clouds provides cost analysis via FOCUS.  In similar way, is it also capable to analyze private cloud data ?

Thanks

Thank you @Blake Hamrick and @Greg Winfield for the above. 

Yep, per @Blake Hamrick this can be done with considerations for CSUM, you will need to find a way to query (for example VCSA or vCenter) as well as come up with a mechanism for how you cost your private cloud, and, at what intervals you capture that data - remember if a VM moves between hosts its important not to capture it multiple times in a day (unless your costing mechanism is on an hourly basis and you export costs hourly). 

Hi Everyone,

We know the Cloudability supports all major public clouds and for other public clouds provides cost analysis via FOCUS.  In similar way, is it also capable to analyze private cloud data ?

Thanks

Can we build custom utility to convert the billing invoice into FOCUS format. ?

Thank you @Blake Hamrick and @Greg Winfield for the above. 

Yep, per @Blake Hamrick this can be done with considerations for CSUM, you will need to find a way to query (for example VCSA or vCenter) as well as come up with a mechanism for how you cost your private cloud, and, at what intervals you capture that data - remember if a VM moves between hosts its important not to capture it multiple times in a day (unless your costing mechanism is on an hourly basis and you export costs hourly). 

Hi Everyone,

We know the Cloudability supports all major public clouds and for other public clouds provides cost analysis via FOCUS.  In similar way, is it also capable to analyze private cloud data ?

Thanks

Yes of course, make sure it aligns to Focus 1.0 (thats what I did) and it worked fine. As mentioned I used PowerCLI to connect to Virtual Centre / VCSA, get a few dimensions down like UUID, VM Name, Storage amount, VCPU and Memory and massaged to FOCUS format, then uploaded into Cloudability. Just decide first hand as to how often you will pull this data (eg: once a day) and create a costing construct to support this if you go down this path.

Can we build custom utility to convert the billing invoice into FOCUS format. ?

Thank you @Blake Hamrick and @Greg Winfield for the above. 

Yep, per @Blake Hamrick this can be done with considerations for CSUM, you will need to find a way to query (for example VCSA or vCenter) as well as come up with a mechanism for how you cost your private cloud, and, at what intervals you capture that data - remember if a VM moves between hosts its important not to capture it multiple times in a day (unless your costing mechanism is on an hourly basis and you export costs hourly). 

Hi Everyone,

We know the Cloudability supports all major public clouds and for other public clouds provides cost analysis via FOCUS.  In similar way, is it also capable to analyze private cloud data ?

Thanks