Automated cost calculation for virtualized infrastructure

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for controlling a computer system to be operable to:

• store a cost assigned to a physical computing device in a storage device, the physical computing device being found in a physical infrastructure of a data center;
• determine an instantiation of a virtual machine in a virtual infrastructure;
• receive information for a provisioning of the virtual machine with the physical computing device in the physical infrastructure of the data center;
• and
• retrieve the cost assigned to the physical computing device from the storage device, wherein the cost is used to determine a charge for the virtual machine based on usage of the physical computing device.

A method comprising:

• storing a plurality of costs to a plurality of computing resources in a data storage device, the plurality of computing resources being found in a physical infrastructure;
• measuring usage of a computing resource by a virtual machine in a virtual infrastructure;
• determining a physical computing device in the physical infrastructure associated with the computing resource;
• retrieving a cost assigned to the computing resource from the data storage device based on the determined physical computing device;
• and
• determining, by a computer system, a charge for the virtual machine based on the measured usage of the computing resource and the determined cost assigned the computing resource.