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How do we price our service?

Our virtual infrastructure pricing is somewhat unique in the industry. We charge for total resources reserved in our clusters, and not per virtual machine.

There are some advantages to this approach:

• elastic computing - set or change your CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network options as you need - a la carte
• no need to pay for CPU or Memory resources for powered-down machines
• no virtual machine tiering
• unlimited virtual machines within your resources - or what will practically fit within your resources

It's easiest to explain with an example.

You provision the following resources (each can be adjusted later)

• 1GHz of CPU
• 4GB of Memory
• 40GB of Low-speed Disk - includes image backups!
• 40GB of High-speed Disk - includes image backups!
• 1 extra VLAN (for a private VLAN)

Pricing (also consider using our pricing calculator)

• 1GHz of CPU - $40/month ($40/month per GHz)
• 4GB of Memory - $120/month ($30/month per GB)
• 40GB of Low-speed Disk - $24/month ($0.60/month per GB)
• 40GB of High-speed Disk - $48/month ($1.20/month per GB)
• 1 extra VLAN (for a private VLAN) - $10/month

        TOTAL - $242/month

In these resources, you provision the following virtual machines

Firewall

	1 vCPU
	0.5GB of Memory
	10GB of Low-speed Hard Disk
	2 vNICs assigned to public and private VLANs

Web Server

	2 vCPUs
	1GB of Memory
	30GB of Low-speed Hard Disk
	1 vNICs assigned to private VLAN

Database Server

	2 vCPU
	2.5GB of Memory
	40GB of High-speed Hard Disk
	1 vNICs assigned to private VLAN

Notice

Disk space usage will be include not only the reserved amount for your virtual disks, but also for virtual memory files and snapshot files.

You may estimate the amount of utilization for virtual memory files by adding the total amount of memory being used by each machine. VMware vSphere creates disk files the size of the memory in each virtual machine. For this example, an extra 1.5GB of low-speed disk space and 2.5GB of high-speed disk space will be used.

Snapshot files grow as changes are recorded to the virtual disks. Snapshots should be considered temporary. Large numbers of snapshots are possible, but it will be more costly to keep them around.

Other

CPU reserve is a guarantee of CPU cycles. However, if there is additional capacity available, it will be used. This provides for significant spiking of CPU utilization, but you are only guaranteed what you purchase. CPU availability will be capped to your reserve only if there is contention for CPU resources.

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