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A Complete E2E Metered Billing for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Cloud Assert Billing for Azure Stack Hub enables billing and chargeback within Azure Stack portal. It allows you as an administrator to track the resource consumption across Azure Stack and custom services, compare usage vs quota, configure pricing for Azure Stack resources based on usage meters, integrate with external billing systems, and generate invoices automatically based on real-time usages.

Cloud Assert is the only provider of Billing and Commerce platform for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub that has native integration inside Azure Stack Portal UI and Azure Resource Manager API as a Resource Provider. It allows Enterprises, Service Providers, Re-sellers and End Users to view, track and manage their resource consumption and billing from the same single portal with one-pane glass experience.


Cloud Assert Usage and Billing platform is a matured, battle proven solution with many flexible options to customize and suite diverse marketing and sales needs. It provides you the quickest way to offer rich billing solution on top of the Microsoft Azure Stack Hub portal for all your Charge-back, Show-back, Billing and Reporting needs.

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Administrator Portal

Usage and Billing solution enables you as a service administrator to define multiple pricing models within Azure Stack Hub for all the available services, resource meters, plans and offers.

  • Set different Pricing Profiles for all the Azure Stack Hub Meters
  • Visibility across Resource Usages and its Costs per subscription
  • Run Promotional Credits in a percentage or a monetary value
  • Extensibility and Flexibility to charge customers based on their specifc needs
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Customer/ Tenant Portal

Just like Azure public cloud, Tenants can get to see their ongoing usages, pricing and billing information including invoices right within their Azure Stack customer portal at a quick glance.

  • Ability to see their ongoing usages and its associated costs
  • Automatic invoice generation at the end of the billing cycle
  • Pay your bills within the Azure Stack Hub portal
  • Native billing experience just like Azure
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Essential Features of the Billing Solution

Custom Pricing Profiles

  • Ability to configure different pricing for the usage meters emitted by the Azure Stack services
  • Bill-back customers in the following models: Fixed Fee, Pay-as-you-go and Combinations of both models with compatible rates

Offer Promotional Credits

  • Run various types of promotional credits to your customers like One-time, Recurring, Individual User Credits, etc., for increasing their life time value and stickiness
  • Credits can be given in a percentage or a monetary value to customers

Usage Histories & Invoices

  • Ability for the admin and tenant to see the historic and current month usage details and its associated costs
  • Cost comparison with previous months and provide cost trend analysis report along with the Invoices

Custom Collector

  • It is a wonderful mechanism that augments collecting more usage data that are not available in the usage collection mechanism of Azure Stack Hub provided by Microsoft
  • On top of this you can bill your customers based on their specific billing needs

Quota vs Usage Consumption

  • A quick comparison view of the allocated Azure Stack Quota vs Usage Consumption for all the registered Tenant users
  • Powerful trend chart view across the consumed Azure Stack resources and the monthly summary report can be downloaded as a CSV file

CSP Reseller Billing

  • Profit visibility for selling license, usage and service based subscriptions
  • System generated invoices supports multi-currency and multi-languages
  • Invoice can be segregated based on licenses, usages, etc.,

Azure Stack Hub Billing Resources

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Windows Azure Pack - VConnect - v2.1.7- RTM Release Notes

Let's get to know what's new and updated in the latest release

Author: Anonym/Monday, July 29, 2019/Categories: Windows Azure Pack, VConnect

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Provided information are related to latest product release notes of Hybr - v1.1.1.5

The below mentioned may includes bug fixes, new features, urgent issues and feature updates.

1. Connections

  • SQL server connection feature enables the discovery of Databases in SQL server  

2. Azure: 

  • Added new Default Compute Instances for the Azure Resources. 

  • Handled errors when removing the Networks in “Error Creating” status 

  • Primary Disk Size for the VMs is shown in the Devices Grid. 

3. AWS:

  • Added new Default Compute Instances for the AWS Resources. 

4. VMware: 

  • Validation on the name of the VM in the Clone VM Custom Command 

5. System Center: 

  • Capturing of the “Update Failed” status of the Virtual Machines in VConnect. 

6. Discovery (Beta):

  • User can view the resources discovered in a Discovery Job 

  • Creating Jobs for the Discovery of the SQL Server Resources 

  • Add Migrations for the Discovered SQL Servers Resource. 

7. Announcements:

  • User can view Latest Version Details available in the WAP Admin Portals. 

  • Users can view the Release Notes and Updates available in the Latest Versions. 

8. Others: 

  • App-setting to sync the CPU and Memory of the resources from the Server to VConnect Database. 

  • Performance improvements in the Plan Settings page. 

  • Show the Created User Name of the Virtual Machine in the Tenant Portal. 

  • Allow Admins to Configure Networks when an already Configured Network is removed from the Server. 

  • Option to execute the Service Request Scripts in the 64 bit powershell. 

Issues that are fixed:

  • Fixed errors while restoring the backups of the VConnect Synced VMs in the Tenant Portal. 

  • Handled Restoration of the backup of a Deleted Virtual Machine to Original Location. 

  • Backup Wizard to show the synced System Center Virtual Machines in the Add/Edit Wizard. 

  • Proper status update of the Removed AWS Virtual Machines. 

  • Handled Compute Instance mismatch in VConnect for the restored Virtual Machines. 

  • Parameter values from the first page in the custom command to be passed in the data-source scripts of the upcoming pages. 

  • Fixed Search in Call Logs and Datastores Tab in the Admin Portal. 

Installers: 



Upgrade Notes:

1. Pre-install steps: 


Required: 

  • Take a backup of the API service web.config file and all the scripts in the API service folder. 

  • If you use those files, keep a backup copy of the finalize VM name power shell script (under “inetpubMgmtSvc-CloudAssert-VConnect” folder) prior to the installing, as it will overwrite during the installation process. 


Recommended: 

  • Take a backup of the Cloud Assert VConnect SQL database 

  • Create a snapshot of the VMs in which VConnect components are installed. 

  • Take backups of the entire install folders of API and agent service. 


2. Install steps: 

  • Uninstall existing VConnect installers from each node where the admin portal extension, tenant portal extension, and API service components are installed. 

  • Install the VConnect components in each of the nodes, using the latest installers, and per the instructions in the setup document, the links for which are given above. 

  • Check “Programs and Features” in the control panel to ensure that the installed version is v2.1.7-RTM 


3. Post-install steps:  

Resource Provider Authentication Settings: 

  • Update the hashed value of the password in the web.config file using the VConnect.exe tool (refer to the instructions in the setup document). 

Copy the backedup version of the Finalize VM name PowerShell script onto the “inetpub/MgmtSvc-CloudAssert-VConnect” folder. 


If you have any clarifications/ queries with the release, please write to support@cloudassert.com 

 

 

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7/31/2019 8:31 PM

Thank you for sharing the nice article. I learned a lot from it. I hope to see more updates from you, it gives me the knowledge I have never heard of.

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