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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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6 CreatingandConfiguringaCostModel 63
vCenterChargebackCost‐RelatedElements 63
ChargeableComputingResource 63
BaseRate 64
RateFactor 64
FixedCost 64
BillingPolicy 64
CostModel 65
CostTemplate 66
ManageCostModels 66
CreateaCostModel 66
ModifyaCostModel 67
DeleteaCostModel 68
ManageFixedCosts 68
CreateaFixedCost 68
ModifyaFixedCost 69
DeleteaFixedCost 70
ManageCostTemplates 70
CreateaCostTemplate 70
ModifyaCost
Template 72
DeleteaCostTemplate 72
ConfigureCostattheEntityLevel 72
ViewCostConfigurationofanEntity 73
EditCostConfigurationofanEntity 73
7 GeneratingReports 75
AboutReports 75
GenerateaCostReport 76
GenerateCostComparisonReport 77
CreateReportGenerationSchedules 78
SchedulingParameters 78
ScheduleReportGeneration 79
ManageReportGenerationSchedules 80
RescheduleReportGeneration 80
RemoveaSchedule 80
EmailaScheduledReport 81
ManageReports 81
ArchiveReport 81
ScheduleReport 82
EmailReport 82
ExportReport 82
ManageArchivedReports 83
ViewArchivedReport 83
RescheduleArchivedReport 83
EmailArchivedReport 84
DeleteArchivedReport 84
8 SystemHealth,Utilities,andTroubleshooting 85
SystemHealth 85
Events 86