VMware Cost Management

Accelerator Service
Solution Overview
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Agenda
Business Objectives
Engagement Overview
Cost Management Solution

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Business Objectives
Objectives Overview
Provide cost and usage visibility of virtual infrastructure / private cloud and public cloud with
out-of-the-box integration with VMware vCenter, VMware vRealize Automation, VMware
vRealize Operations and VMware vCloud Air.
Perform analysis of virtual infrastructure / private cloud and public cloud, based on cost and
utilization.
Automatically price the services available through self-service in a hybrid cloud.
Provide out-of-the-box benchmarks for cloud / virtual infrastructure environments, providing
insight into capacity, costs, and efficiency.
Provide out-of-the-box reports for cloud cost optimization.

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Engagement Overview
How Our Journey Together Will Work

Solution
Knowledge transfer of the
Overview VMware proven, validated
solution for your business
Assess the current state
relative to the validated
Assess design, identify gaps
and remediation

Create a remediation Design

plan to close the gap
between the current and
the proven solution state Implement or
remediate against the
Deploy proven solution and
integrate that into your
ecosystem
Validate complete
solution from a
technology, people, and Validate
process perspective Operationalize the
solution in the client
environment, and then
Knowledge focus on running and
Transfer supporting the solution

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Example Project Timeline

Activities / Week

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Phase 1: Planning

Phase 2: Kickoff

Phase 3: Solution Overview

Consultant:
Phase 4: Assess
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Phase 5: Design
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Phase 6: Deploy - Talk about how the timelines might look for each module

Phase 7: Validate and that each section would have the different elements
repeated for the workstream.
Phase 8: Knowledge Transfer
- Talk about how we have it laid out here in a single
workstream, but it doesnt necessarily need to be.
Phase 9: Conclusion
- The modules allow for parallel efforts based on defined
needs.

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IT Business Management Challenges
I need to understand the
cost, quality, and value of
the IT services my team is
consuming.
I need to engage the
business about the value
and tradeoff between cost
and quality of consumed
services across any cloud.

LOB CIO

Consultant:
With our move to IaaS, we
These are high-level examples and not meant to
need to be able to price our I need to manage fixed costs
comprehensively cover all stakeholders and challenges.
services, catalog them, and while addressing competing
explain cost compared to demands from multiple LOBs.
Replace or add other stakeholders as necessary for your
the competition.
particular audience or prospects organizational structure.

VP of Other stakeholders can include VP of Operations, Service

CFO of IT
Infrastructure Owners, Vendor Managers, and Shared Services Director

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Cost Management
VMware vRealize Business Standard Overview

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Cloud Costs in Minutes

Projected monthly
cost of your cloud
infrastructure

Cloud costs broken

down for each major
cost category

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Automatic Cloud Resource Cost Allocation

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Operation Analysis by Data Center

Actual Utilization Actual Utilization Automatic Cost

Calculations

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Pricing Policy for Private Cloud

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Pricing Policy for vRealize Automation

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vRealize Automation Pricing Policy Based on vRealize Business

Pricing imported from

vRealize Business policies

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Cloud Consumption Analysis by Business Unit

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Consumption Analysis for Infra and Operations Managers

Track
recovery
Cloud margin by
Costs by LOB
LOB
Budget
Compliance
by LOB
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Cloud Showback for Line of Business Managers

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Reclamation Opportunities for Line of Business Managers

Quantify potential savings from

reclamation opportunities based on
vRealize Operations and vRealize
Automation integrations

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Cloud and Data Center Comparisons

Public cloud
Comparison

Data center
Comparisons

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Custom Reports VM Monthly Costs

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Questions

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VMware Cost Management
Accelerator Service

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