Rackspace SDDC Flex Cloud Pricing Rate Card
Consumption Models
Rackspace SDDC Flex allows organizations of all sizes to realize the benefits of a VMware Cloud at a lower total cost of ownership including flexible consumption options. Our flexible consumption models help shift the economics for how organizations consume VMware resources when they need and as they use them across infrastructure as well as support and services.
Pricing is available on a month-to-month basis or get a discount with longer-term annual contracts.
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go provides on-demand resources with a minimal commitment level. It’s ideal for highly seasonal and variable workloads that need rapid bursting capacity as well as temporary workloads like dev/test.
- Multi-tenant (shared) compute, storage and networking resources
- Predefined virtual machine sizing policies provide a pre-fixed menu of popular size VMs that are on-demand and easy to deploy, with policy-based control over VM resources.
- Resources are committed to the virtual machine upon creation in the Organization Virtual Data Center
- Per virtual machine price includes compute infrastructure and Platform level support
- Hourly rates for compute and storage
Data Protection Policy Pricing
Usage will be metered on a daily basis. Customers are billed monthly on the aggregate total of daily metering. Below is per GB price for aggregate monthly utilized storage.
| Policy Name | Description | Charge Based on VM Power State | Unit of Measure | Base Rate |
| Data Protection | Storage utilized (before data reduction) | Always | Per GB |
Networking Pricing
Measures the egress data from edge gateway which is associated with Organization Virtual Data Center
Data is measured per edge gateway. All the traffic going through the network is charged here regardless of whether it's going through the internet or not.
| Component Name | Description | Unit of Measure | Base Rate |
| External Network Transmit | Egress data from edge gateway | per MB | per MB |
VM Sizing Policy Pricing
| Policy Name | Description | Charge Based on VM Power State | Base Rate |
| gp1.2 | General Purpose VM 1 vCPU 2 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp1.4 | General Purpose VM 1 vCPU 4 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp2.2 | General Purpose VM 2 vCPU 2 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp2.4 | General Purpose VM 2 vCPU 4 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp2.6 | General Purpose VM 2 vCPU 6 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp2.8 | General Purpose VM 2 vCPU 8 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| mo2.12 | Memory Optimized VM 2 vCPU 12 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| mo2.16 | Memory Optimized VM 2 vCPU 16 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp4.4 | General Purpose VM 4 vCPU 4 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp4.8 | General Purpose VM 4 vCPU 8 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp4.12 | General Purpose VM 4 vCPU 12 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp4.16 | General Purpose VM 4 vCPU 16 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| mo4.20 | Memory Optimized VM 4 vCPU 20 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| mo4.24 | Memory Optimized VM 4 vCPU 24 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| mo4.32 | Memory Optimized VM 4 vCPU 32 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp8.16 | General Purpose VM 8 vCPU 16 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp8.24 | General Purpose VM 8 vCPU 24 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp8.32 | General Purpose VM 8 vCPU 32 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| mo8.64 | Memory Optimized VM 8 vCPU 64 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp16.64 | General Purpose VM 16 vCPU 64 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp24.96 | General Purpose VM 24 vCPU 96 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp32.128 | General Purpose VM 32 vCPU 128 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| gp48.192 | General Purpose VM 48 vCPU 192 GB RAM | per VM | Only when powered on |
Guest OS Licensing
Per VM additional costs added to VM Sizing Policy cost
| Operating System | Description | Charge Based on VM Power State | Base Rate |
| Windows | All Supported Windows Operating Systems | per VM | Only when powered on | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | All Supported RHEL Operating Systems | per VM | Only when powered on |
Database Licensing
Licensed per vCPU pair. License cost added to VM sizing policy cost.
| Policy Name | Charge Based on VM Power State | Base Rate |
| SQL Enterprise | per 2 vCPU (minimum of 4 vCPU per instance) | Only when powered on | |
| SQL Standard | per 2 vCPU (minimum of 4 vCPU per instance) | Only when powered on | |
| SQL Web | per 2 vCPU (minimum of 4 vCPU per instance) | Only when powered on |
Storage Policy Pricing
Per GB Price based upon Storage Tier and Volume
| Policy Name | Description | Charge Based on VM Power State | Base Rate |
| Capacity | 1 IOPS per GB | Always | |
| Standard | 5 IOPS per GB | Always | |
| Performance | 10 IOPS per GB | Always |
Disaster Recovery
| Support model | Description | Charge Based on | Base Rate |
| Essential | Flex DRaaS support | per VM | active replication | |
| Assisted | Flex DRaaS support | per VM | active replication |
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