VMware Cloud Partner Navigator Terminology
The VMware Cloud Partner Navigator API defines a set of objects and terminology that are referenced throughout this document. Understanding these concepts benefits your comprehension on using the VMware Cloud Partner Navigator billing API.
VMware Cloud Partner Navigator objects have the following high-level properties:
- Organization
- A cloud can contain one or more organizations. Each organization is a unit of administration for a collection of users and computing resources. Users authenticate at the organization level, supplying credentials established when the user was created or imported. User credentials are authenticated by the organization's identity provider.
- Users and Roles
- Your organization can contain an arbitrary number of users. Possible actions within an organization are controlled through the assignment of rights and roles to users.
- Subscriptions
- When you purchase a cloud service as part of an offer signed in advance, you are charged a term subscription cost. Any usage of the service that is not charged as part of the term subscription is with an on-demand rate. Billing reports are generated for the on-demand type of subscription.
- Usage
- You can retrieve the usage for all the services in your organization either as an estimation charge for the current billing cycle or as a raw usage charge for past months.