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NCD – Managing Your Billing

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Navisite Cloud Director® (NCD) uses points as a standard cost unit for calculating CPU, memory, bandwidth, storage, replication usage, and other charges. Points are converted to a currency charge on your monthly invoice according to the terms of your contract.

Account Billing Page Overview

Your account's NCD Billing page provides summary and detail views of the elements and usage that make up your Navisite Cloud Director billing.

Viewing the NCD Billing Page

To view your account's NCD Billing page:
  • At the Navisite Cloud Director Dashboard page, click NCD Billing in the "Admin" section of the navigation bar on the left side of the page.



  • The NCD Billing page displays your billing total data for the current and preceding months.

  • Click the Table and Chart buttons to switch between tabular and chart representations of your billing data.

  • The Table view displays your total cost in points for each month, and allows you to view and/or download detailed monthly billing summaries.

  • The Chart view also displays your total cost in points for each month, and includes a projection of your billing for the current month, extrapolated from your existing monthly charges.


Viewing Your Rate Card

The various NCD billing pages (e.g., the NCD Billing, vDataCenter Summary, vDataCenter Detail and vApp Detail billing pages) provide either a View Current Rate Card or View Rate Card button allowing you to view your current rate card, or a rate card for a previous month.



Your rate card details:
  • Time periods and units for resources actually billed

  • Estimated hourly, daily, or monthly costs for comparison and planning (click the appropriate button to change the duration of the estimate)


The rate card displays billing data for your currently utilized resources (e.g., CPU, memory, storage, and replication, for example). Rate card content may change depending on resources used.

Downloading/Viewing Monthly Billing Summaries

The Billing page allows you to view a billing summary providing cost details per vDataCenter (vDC) for a selected month. You can also download a comma-separated values (CSV) file providing the same information in plain text for offline analysis.

Downloading a Monthly Billing Summary

To download a comma-separated values (CSV) file providing cost details per vDataCenter for a selected month:
  • Click the Download complete data link for the desired month in the Billing page table.


Viewing a Monthly Billing Summary

To display the vDataCenter Summary page to view a monthly billing summary for your vDCs:
  • In the Billing page Table view, click the link in the "Month" column for the desired month.



  • In the Billing page Chart view, click the chart bar for the desired month.


The vDataCenter Summary page provides a pie chart and a table detailing your monthly point totals for each of your vDCs.


Viewing Monthly vDataCenter Billing Details

To display the vDataCenter Detail page to view a monthly billing summary for a selected vDC:
  • As illustrated above, click the desired vDataCenter link in the "Object" column of the vDataCenter Summary page table, or click the portion of the pie chart corresponding to the desired vDC.
The vDataCenter Detail page provides a pie chart and a table detailing your monthly point totals for the selected vDC's constituent vApps, as well as their CPU, Memory, Storage, Replication, Networking, and other costs (e.g., VM Backup, Red Hat licensing).


  • To view actual usage numbers and the point cost calculation, click the "info" icon next to the point values in the tables.


    • Note: Networking-related charges (public IPs and outgoing bandwidth) are only collected and displayed at the vDataCenter level.

Viewing Monthly vApp Billing Details

To display the vApp Detail page to view a monthly billing summary for a selected vApp object:
  • As illustrated above, click the desired vApp object link in the "Object" column of the vDataCenter Detail page table, or click the portion of the pie chart corresponding to the desired vApp object.
The vApp Detail page provides a pie chart and a table detailing your monthly point totals for the selected vApp's constituent virtual machines (VMs), as well as their CPU, Memory, Storage, Replication, and other costs.


  • To view actual usage numbers and the point cost calculation, click the "info" icon next to the point values in the table.


Viewing Detail Page Billing Information

Each vDataCenter, vApp, and VM detail page in Navisite Cloud Director provides a "Billing" section, which displays a graph of monthly billing data for that object over time. "Projected" indicators on the graphs represent estimated costs for the current month.



Configuring Billing Alerts

Viewing Cost Estimates



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