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Charging departments for storage use 33
Reporting on Your Datacenter
Figure 15 Host Chargeback report
Charging departments for file group usage
In the scenario shown below, the CTO creates a file group for chargeback for each
department, and then adds the department’s file systems to the group. Then, the CTO
runs the chargeback report to produce an itemized listing of each department’s file
system storage use and chargeback amount.
Creating file groups
To create file groups, the CTO:
1. On the Utilities menu, selects Settings > File Groups for Chargeback and displays
the File Groups for Chargeback page.
2. Clicks Create to open the New File Group for Chargeback dialog box.
3. Assigns the department’s name to the group.
Note: Each group must have a unique name. Names can be up to 50 characters
long.
4. Assigns a value or cost per unit of storage, such as $1 per GB.
Note: The chargeback value is calculated against the amount of used capacity in
the file system, not the allocated capacity of the file system.