“Offline” reporting is a work in progress. Since Usage Insight does all of the calculations for monthly metering, we must have connectivity. Usage Meter 4.1 can only operate with Usage Insight access.However, UM 4.x architecture will be able to evolve faster due to the cloud-based architecture. This will be an evolution and a phased approach like any other software solution. To start, this release is not on parity or functionally equivalent to Usage Meter version 3.6.1. With any new release, there are always considerations. While this is included in the new Flex bundle, there might be scenarios where one of the Advanced SP bundles are used due to vCD usage.īelow is a table that depicts current state of UM 4.1 and the different bundling situations. This will help us within the program add new products in a very dynamic fashion.Īs of this publishing, UM 4.1 meters the following:Īs of today, VMware vCloud Director (vCD) is not metered with UM 4.1. Much thought was put into how we can provide code updates without a new appliance deployment/migration and provide detailed reporting on an ongoing basis. Providers should be able to adopt new licensing, bundling, or product changes with ease. Future-Proof Model – in-place upgrades and dynamic updates in mind.The Flex VCPP Bundle is also natively reported without bundle translations.Cloud-Native Reporting – 4.1 requires VUI reporting: this enables providers to complete their consumption reporting with ease and minimizing the time they spend monthly.Moreover, in-place upgrades will be built into this platform. Due to the hardened nature of Photon, this will meet many of the industry standard and regulatory compliance requirements. This provides a secure and scalable end state. Usage Meter 4.1 uses the Photon platform.This will be an ongoing evolution just like any other software solution, but will be far easier to maintain for VMware Cloud Providers (due to having a SaaS component that provides the metering logic). While 3.6.1 and 4.1 will interoperate (with considerations), this new metering solution provides an easier platform to manage. This provides a single controller to many one-to-many UM instances for a provider. As you can see, 4.1 was built with direct vCloud Usage Insight (VUI) integration.
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