Chargeback Services

Chargeback Services

CA Automation Suite for Clouds supports allocation-based billing to charge the Service Consumer for the services they use. As a Service Provider (Administrator), you create service offerings for your Service Consumers. This scenario describes how you can create a service offering using templates. Service Consumers can then consume a service, which is presented as an example in this scenario. The scenario also covers how you can generate invoice and can build reports.

Currently, CA Automation Suite for Clouds solution supports the following services for chargeback services on the VMware ESX cartridge:

• Service Offering Using Reservation Template

  This offering allows you to publish services that Service Consumers can consume to provision virtual machines using the Reservation Manager (SSRM) reservation template. As a Service Provider, you have an option to preset the cost and reservation template for the services that can be published.

• Extend Template Reservation

  This offering allows Service Consumers to extend reservations that are made using the published Service Offering Using Reservation Template.

• Return Template Reservation

  This offering allows Service Consumers to return reservations that are made using the published Service Offering Using Reservation Template.

• Service Offering Using VM Template

  This offering allows you to publish services that Service Consumers can consume to provision virtual machines using the SSRM VM template. As a Service Provider, you have an option to preset the cost, CPU, memory, disk, and VM template for the services that can be published.

• Extend VM Reservation

  This offering allows Service Consumers to extend reservations that are made using the published Service Offering Using VM Template.

• Return VM Reservation

  This offering allows Service Consumers to return VM reservations that are made using the published Service Offering Using VM Template.