A customer wants each internal department to see what its own use of the private cloud costs, without introducing internal invoicing. What does this require?
A.
Each department is billed for its consumption, at an agreed internal rate, every month.
B.
Each department is allocated a dedicated portion of the environment for its own use.
C.
Departments submit forecasts so that their expected consumption can be published and compared in advance.
D.
Consumption is attributed to the department that requested it, and reported back.
Option D is correct. The request is for showback rather than chargeback. Meter infrastructure usage, tag or attribute it by department, calculate cost estimates and report them without transferring charges through internal invoices. Private-cloud architecture combines dedicated organisational resources with automated provisioning, standardised service definitions and central governance. Self-service shortens fulfilment time but is still bounded by real capacity, operating policies, support responsibilities and the lifecycle of the infrastructure underneath. None of the other options supplies the same direct response to the stated constraint; each would require separate justification before becoming a valid design decision. The recommendation should therefore be recorded as a requirement-led technical decision with measurable success conditions. Any proposed deviation or dependency must be resolved through customer-approved change management before the solution is declared complete. HPE private cloud management introduces cloud-style operational processes to on-premises or other dedicated infrastructure. Sound recommendations distinguish resource pooling, policy enforcement, application requirements, automation, consumption metering and the respective responsibilities of customer and service provider.
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