User`s guide

Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Cost Template.
A table listing all the cost templates created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the cost template that you want to delete, and click Delete.
A dialog box confirming the action is displayed.
3 Click OK.
The cost template is deleted from the application and, consequently, from the table listing the cost templates.
Managing Billing Policies
vCenter Chargeback provides various system-defined billing policies. In addition, it lets your define you own
billing policies.
You must have privileges on the billing policy resource type to create, update, and delete billing policies. You
can view and manage the billing policies from the Billing Policy page of the Manage Cost tab.
Create a Billing Policy
vCenter Chargeback lets you to define custom billing policies as per your requirements.
A billing policy defines an expression that is used for identifying the computing resources units to be
considered for calculating the costs. Therefore, a billing policy must account for all the computing resources.
In vCenter Chargeback, a billing policy can also account for the fixed costs and the state of the virtual machine.
A billing policy defines an expression for each resource. The expression includes an attribute value that
identifies the computing resource units to be considered for cost calculation. The attribute values can be
allocation, reservation, size, and usage. The attribute value reservation is available only for CPU and memory.
The attribute value size is available only for memory.
The expression can be set to obtain the maximum of available attributes. You can also define an expression
that calculates the resource units only if the virtual machine is on. Also, for storage resources, you can specify
whether the expression must account for the linked clones.
You must have create privilege for the billing policy resource type on vCenter Chargeback to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Billing Policy.
A table listing all the billing policies created in the application is displayed.
2 Click Create.
The Billing Policy screen is displayed.
3 Provide a name and description for the billing policy.
Option Description
Name
Name for the billing policy. This is mandatory information. The character
limit for the cost model name is 255 characters.
Description
An optional description of the billing policy. The character limit for the
description is 512 characters.
4 Select the Expression tab.
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