vFoglight™ v.5.
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Table of Contents Introducing the vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback .......................................................................................5 Chargeback Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback Overview .................................................................................................................
vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback User Guide
1 Introducing the vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback This section contains the following topics: Chargeback Overview ...................................................................................................................6 vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback Overview...............................................................................6 Tiered Flat Rate Model ..................................................................................................................6 Common Tasks...
vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback User Guide Chargeback Overview Customers who move to virtualized infrastructures discover that determining and allocating costs in their environment is much more difficult than when they operated in the pricing operations of a physical realm. Organizations can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars procuring high end hosts, virtualization software, and storage area network (SAN) disk storage. Virtual machines can be added very quickly and appear to be free of cost.
Introducing the vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback Common Tasks 7 Common Tasks Note Please refer to the vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback Reference Guide for complete procedures.
vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback User Guide • Create the report The Create New Reports wizard creates a new report as specified. The report is now scheduled, but possibly scheduled for a future time. You can wait for the report to run as scheduled, or enter the Reports area of vFoglight and run the report manually. Creating a New Tier The vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback wizard allows you to create and edit tiers to define various levels of host cost. This is done in step two of New Reports Wizard.
Introducing the vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback Common Tasks 9 Chargeback Alerts The vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback uses vFoglight Alarms to alert users to critical severity levels. Status indicators are used to show specific alarms raised within the virtual infrastructure. Four status indicators, similar to those displayed below, are used throughout all of the vFoglight dashboards.
vFoglight Cartridge for Chargeback User Guide
Index Index C Chargeback Overview 6 Common Tasks Chargeback Alerts 7 Creating a New Tier 7 Creating Reports Using the Create New Report Wizard 7 Manually Running a Report 7 Viewing an Existing Report 7 T Tiered Flat Rate Model 6 11
