Cost Governance

Hey everyone,I’m wondering if there is a built-in tool in Nutanix for on-premises environment that allows tracking of resource consumption — something that can act like a virtual currency or internal billing system based on usage (e.g., vCPU, memory, storage). Ideally, we’re looking for a way to generate reports that show per-project or per-VM consumption over time. I’ve thought of Cost Governance, but I think it’s only for cloud setups and I’m not aware of all its capabilities.Does Nutanix offer anything natively for this, or is this something that would require integration with an external tool?Thanks in advance!

Beam is a multi-cloud cost governance SaaS product that provides a free, full-featured, 14-day trial period. During the free trial period, you can configure your Nutanix On-premises and public cloud accounts (AWS and Azure ) in Beam to evaluate the features. It takes about 15 minutes to configure your cloud accounts in Beam.The following section describes the procedure to start a free trial. If you have access to the MyNutanix Account, perform Step 1. If you do not have access to the MyNutanix Account,  perform Step 2. Procedure If you have access to the MyNutanix account, do the following. Login to your MyNutanix account. In the Dashboard, scroll down to find the Beam application. Then, click Launch to open the Beam application and start your free trial. If you do not have an existing MyNutanix account, do the following. Open the Beam webpage. Click Start Free Trial and fill the form that appears. Then, click Submit. Your MyNutanix account gets created. Also,

my goal to integrate beam with my billing system over API, can i add custom attribute to Nutanix resources ?exampleif i have VM created from image template with 4 vcpu and 16 GB memory, can i add an attribute  as resource name like AWS "t2.micro"?

Beam OverviewBeam is a Cost Governance SaaS product offering by Nutanix that helps cloud-focused organizations to gain visibility into cloud spend across multiple cloud environments.The following are a few of the key functionalities that help you with the cost management: Provides you with deep visibility and rich analytics detailing cloud consumption patterns. One-click cost optimization across your cloud environments. Proactively identifies idle and underutilized resources, and delivers specific recommendations to resize infrastructure services and ensure optimal cloud consumption. Beam provides the following capabilities: Visibility into cloud consumption: Provides businesses with deep visibility into their multi-cloud consumption at an aggregate and granular level. Beam also automatically identifies cost anomalies to ensure cloud operators can immediately identify when spending deviations happen. Optimization of Cloud Consumption: Provides cloud operators with a one-click fea

Beam allows you to do the following administrative controls. Add and manage users accessibility to various cloud accounts in Beam. Two types of access can be granted to a user. Admin Access - The user gets read and write access to all cloud accounts added in your Beam account. User Access - The administrator can grant Read Only or Read and Write permissions on selected cloud accounts to a user, thus allowing the administrator to exercise the principle of least privilege.  Adding a Beam User Click the Hamburger icon on the top-left corner to display the main menu. Then, click Configure → User Management. Click Add User. In the Details page, enter the user details and change the timezone as desired. Then, click Next to go to the Permissions page. In the Permissions page, you can choose Admin access or User Access. Click Admin Access if you want to give administrator rights to the user. Click save to complete the task. Click User Access if you want to grant Read Only or R

Beam is a Cost Governance SaaS product offering by Nutanix that helps cloud-focused organizations to gain visibility into cloud spend across multiple cloud environments.The following are a few of the key functionalities that help you with the cost management: Provides you with deep visibility and rich analytics detailing cloud consumption patterns. One-click cost optimization across your cloud environments. Proactively identifies idle and underutilized resources, and delivers specific recommendations to resize infrastructure services and ensure optimal cloud consumption.  Beam application enables you to take control of your cloud spend on the Nutanix on-premises resources. The application supports Nutanix enterprise cloud deployments to extend cost visibility capability into the multi-cloud cost governance portfolio.Nutanix cost management supports the following features. True cost of running on-premises infrastructure with the help of a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model. Meter

This series of two posts provides a walk-through of Xi Beam Cloud Governance capabilities to give you a better understanding of what a CCO (Cloud Cost Optimization) can do for you. What is Xi Beam Cloud GovernanceXi Beam Cloud Governance is a feature rich tool that provides visibility, optimization, and automated control over multi-cloud deployments including both public and private clouds.As a multi-cloud governance tool, Beam organizes all the infrastructure information along three key pillars of cloud governance: Visibility: Xi Beam provides deep visibility into multi-cloud consumption patterns at aggregate as well as granular levels to easily identify cost drivers. Optimization: Xi Beam uses machine intelligence to continuously provide right-sizing recommendations and deliver more than 50 percent in cloud cost savings. Control: Xi Beam helps you create automated policies that continuously take actions to reduce cloud costs. Beam also provides budget alerts so that you can take

What is Beam?  Beam is a cost and security optimization SaaS product offering by Nutanix.  Beam helps cloud-focused organizations to gain visibility into cloud spend across multiple cloud environments. With the Cost Governance feature, Beam provides organizations with deep visibility and rich analytic detailing cloud consumption patterns, along with one-click cost optimization across their cloud environments.  The cost governance feature within Beam provides the following capabilities. Visibility into cloud consumption. Optimization of Cloud Consumption. Control over Cloud Consumption. The Security Compliance supports the following capabilities. Visibility into Security Compliance Optimization of Security Compliance Control over Security Compliance For more information and for the full documentation, check out XI Beam user guide Useful links: Set-up Xi Beam Release notes