In my last Post I covered manual steps of vCloud Usage Meter deployment & configuration. In this post I will show how we can leverage Usage Meter API’s to perform end to end configuration.

Usage Meter Deployment: There is no API for UM deployment and we have to stick to ovftool method for this step.

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What is Usage Meter?

vCloud Usage Meter is an on-premises virtual appliance that is used to collect and generate reports for Cloud Provider Partners (VCPP) to send back to VMware for monthly billing of usage.

Usage Meter collects usage of most of the VMware products that are installed in cloud providers datacenter. Current version of Usage Meter (4.1) supports usage collection from following endpoints:

How Usage Meter collects and report monthly product consumption data, is explained Here

vCloud Usage Insight

vCloud Usage Insight is a VMware cloud service that aggregates and automates monthly and end user reporting from on-premise vCloud Usage Meter instances to the VMware Cloud Provider Commerce Portal. With vCloud Usage Insight, you retain full control over the usage report data in Commerce Portal before submission.

To learn more about vCloud Usage Meter & Usage Insight please check VMware official Documentation

Usage Meter Installation Requirements

I am not going to cover nitty-gritty of installation pre-requisites as everything is well documented Here

vCloud Usage Meter is distributed as virtual appliance (ova) and can be downloaded from Here

vCloud UM deployment is pretty straight forward like any other ova deployment.… Read More