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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback
- Installing vCenter Chargeback
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Create a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Manage a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Server Entity
- Add a vCenter Chargeback Entity
- Rename a Chargeback Hierarchy or a Chargeback Entity
- Delete an Entity from the Hierarchy
- Delete a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Assign Attributes
- Move Entities Within a Hierarchy
- Share Virtual Machine Cost
- View Properties of a vCenter Server Entity
- Creating and Configuring a Cost Model
- Generating Reports
- System Health, Utilities, and Troubleshooting
- System Health
- Events
- Utilities
- Troubleshooting
- Unable to Send Report Through Email
- Storage Syncing Job Fails
- Unable to use Custom SSL Certificates
- Unable to View the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In in the VI Client
- Report Does not Display the Memory Usage Value and the Corresponding Cost
- Report Does not Display the Network Transmitted and Network Received Stats
- Report Does not Display the Disk Read and Disk Write Stats
- Unable to Add vCenter Server in vCenter Chargeback
- Changed Timezone Setting is not Reflected
- Installer Throws the SQL Driver not Found Error
- Status of Failed Data Collector is not Reflected Immediately on the System Health tab
- Non-English Characters are not Correctly Stored in the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Service Temporarily Unavailable Error Thrown when Accessing vCenter Chargeback
- Text and Messages on the vCenter Chargeback User Interface are not Correctly Displayed
- Error Occurs While Importing a Hierarchy from a CSV File
- Changes to Chargeback Hierarchy are not Reflected in the Concurrent User-Sessions
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Unable to Remove the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In from the VI Client
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Index
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Contents
AboutThisBook 7
1 IntroductiontovCenterChargeback 9
WhatIsChargeback? 9
ChargebackSolutionforVirtualizedEnvironments 9
OverviewofvCenterChargeback 10
2 InstallingvCenterChargeback 13
SystemRequirements 13
HardwareRequirements 13
SoftwareRequirements 14
OperatingSystems 14
DatabaseManagementSystems 14
WebBrowsers 14
VMwarevCenterServer 14
PrerequisitesforvCenterChargeback 14
Pre‐InstallationChecklist 16
InstallvCenterChargeback 17
BasicInstallationorFirst‐TimeInstallation 17
ClusterInstallation 19
BasicInstallationUsingExistingDatabaseSchema 21
UpgradevCenterChargeback 23
StartingthevCenterChargebackApplication 23
DownloadingandInstallingDataCollector 24
UpgradetheDataCollector 26
DeployingvCenter
ChargebackasaVirtualAppliance 26
ManagingthevCenterChargebackVirtualAppliance 28
UninstallingvCenterChargeback 28
3 ConfiguringAdministrationSettings 31
EnterLicenseKey 31
ConfigureGenericSettings 31
ConfiguretheLDAPServerSetting 32
ConfiguretheSMTPServerSettings 33
SetCurrency 34
SetLogLevel 34
ManagevCenterServers 35
AddvCenterServerInformation 35
EditvCenterServerInformation 36
DeletevCenterServerInformation 37
ManageDataCollectors 37
ViewDataCollectors 37
EnableDataCollector 38
DisableDataCollector 39
DeleteDataCollector 39