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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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Chapter 6 Creating and Configuring a Cost Model
CPUReservation:ThispolicytakesintoaccounttheCPUcapacityreservedforavirtualmachine.
This reservedCPUcapacityalongwiththeactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesis
usedforcalculatingthetotalcost.
MemoryReservation:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthememorycapacityreservedforavirtualmachine.
Thisreservedmemorycapacityalongwiththeactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresources
isusedforcalculatingthetotalcost.
MaximumofUsageandReservation:Inthispolicy,themaximumoftheusedandreservedunitsofCPU,
themaximumoftheusedandreservedunitsofmemory,andtheactualutilizationofotherchargeable
computingresourcesisusedforcalculatingthetotalcost.
MaximumofCPUUsageandCPUReservation:Inthispolicy,themaximumofusedandreservedunits
ofCPUalongwiththeactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesisconsideredfor
calculatingthetotalcost.
MaximumofMemoryUsageandMemoryReservation:Inthispolicy,themaximumofusedand
reservedunitsofmemoryalongwiththeactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesis
consideredforcalculatingthetotalcost.
FixedCostandActualUsage:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthefixedcostsassociatedwiththeentityand
theactualutilizationofthechargeablecomputingresourcesforcalculatingthetotalcost.
FixedCostandReservation:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthefixedcostsassociatedwiththeentity,the
reservedcapacityofCPUandmemory,andtheactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresources
forcalculatingthetotalcost.
FixedCostandCPUReservation:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthefixedcostsassociatedwiththeentity,
thereservedcapacityofCPU,andtheactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesfor
calculatingthetotalcost.
FixedCostandMemoryReservation:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthefixedcostsassociatedwiththe
entity,thereservedcapacityofmemory,andtheactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputing
resourcesforcalculatingthetotalcost.
FixedCostandMaximumofUsageandReservation:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthefixedcosts
associatedwiththeentity,themaximumofusedandreservedunitsofCPU,themaximumofusedand
reservedunitsofmemory,andtheactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesfor
calculatingthe
totalcost.
FixedCostandMaximumofCPUUsageandCPUReservation:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthefixed
costsassociatedwiththeentity,themaximumofusedandreservedunitsofCPU,andtheactual
utilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesforcalculatingthetotalcost.
FixedCostandMaximumofMemoryUsageandMemoryReservation:Thispolicytakesintoaccount
thefixedcostsassociatedwiththeentity,themaximumofusedandreservedunitsofmemory,andthe
actualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesforcalculatingthetotalcost.
vCPUCountandMemorySize:ThispolicytakesintoaccountthenumberofvirtualCPUs,thetotal
amountofmemoryallocatedtothevirtualmachines,andtheactualutilizationofotherchargeable
computingresourcesforcalculatingthetotalcost.
FixedCostandvCPUCountandMemorySize:Thispolicytakesintoaccountthefixedcostsassociated
withtheentity,thenumberofvirtualCPUsandthetotalamountofmemoryallocatedtothevirtual
machines,andtheactualutilizationofotherchargeablecomputingresourcesforcalculatingthetotalcost.
Cost Model
Acostmodeldefinesbaseratesforthechargeablecomputingresourcesandthebillingpolicytobeusedfor
calculatingthetotalcost.Acostmodelalsoenablesyoutodefinedifferentbillingpoliciesfordifferenttime
periods.Afteryoudefineacostmodelintheapplication,youcansetit
ononeormoreentitiesorhierarchies.