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VAlign offers a closely coupled, agentless integration with VirtualCenter to ensure accuracy in a dynamic environment and allows for flexible allocation or usage-based models for pricing your IT services. Only VAlign offers cost-pool calculators and wizards to handle the complexity of detailed cost models and tracking expense changes. VAlign's ability to handle tiered rates and combine models for each resource (Storage, Network, etc.) enables the capture of true costs associated with running high-availability, mission-critical applications for your business users. With the power of VAlign, you will get the usage and cost intelligence you need to optimize both the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your virtual environment.

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VAlign can:

• Provide cost recovery using tiered allocation models, usage-based models, or a hybrid of both
• Calculate the appropriate service rates with wizards and cost-pool calculators
• Add surcharges for the allocation of excess resources to control over-provisioning that degrades performance
• Set different rates for different tiers of storage (Fiber Channel, NAS, iSCSI)
• Charge per VLAN and set different rates for different Quality of Service
• View reports from a secure Web portal or output reports / bills in XML, CSV, PDF or Word formats
• Factor in depreciation schedules; support all direct and indirect capital, and operational expenses

• Offer variable rates such as tiered hosting / pricing models for each resource (CPU, RAM, Network, Disk, Storage)
• Handle real-time changes to the virtual infrastructure including virtual machine resource moves, changes and deletes
• Schedule the import of ERP data and the export of consumption and billing data for integration into third-party software applications
• Set invoicing and reporting intervals via a flexible scheduler and offer drill-down to detail records for each summary usage / billing aggregation level

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