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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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Afteryouhaveconfiguredtheapplication,createdandconfiguredchargebackhierarchies,anddefinedcost
models,youcangeneratevariouscostreportsandcostcomparisonreports.Thischapterincludesthe
followingtopics:
“A b o u t Reports”onpage 75
“GenerateaCostReport”onpage 76
“GenerateCostComparisonReport”onpage 77
“CreateReportGenerationSchedules”onpage 78
“ManageReports”onpage 81
“ManageArchivedReports”onpage 83
About Reports
vCenterChargebackenablesyoutogeneratecostreportsandcostcomparisonreportsforachargeback
hierarchyandforentitiesinthehierarchy.Acostreportprovidesthefollowinginformation:
Reportsummary:Thissectionappearimmediatelybelowthereporttitleonthefirstpageofthereport.It
includesthenameanddescriptionofthereport,whichisprovidedwhilecreatingthereport.Thereport
summaryalsoincludesthebillingdate,whichisthereportgenerationdate,andthebillingperiod,
which
istheperiodforwhichtheresourcesarechargedandtheapplicablefixedcostsareconsidered.Thesection
alsoprovidesthetotalcostoftheentityonwhichthereportwasgenerated.
Costsummary:Thissectionspecifiesthecostmodelusedforcalculatingthecosts.Italsospecifiesthetotal
costfortheentityanditschildentities.Thetotalcostforanentityistherolled‐upcost.Thatis,thecosts
ofallthechildentitiesareconsideredwhilecalculatingthe
costoftheparententity.
Resourcesummary:Thissectionprovidescostforeachchargeablecomputingresource,thefixedcosts,
andthetotalcostfortheentityandallitschildentities.Allthefixedcostsforanentityareaddedand
reportedasOtherCostsinthereport.Thecostsdisplayedinthereportforeach
entityandforeach
resourcearetherolled‐upcostsatthatentitylevel.Thissectionalsodisplaystheactualresource
utilizationdetailsateachlevel.
Costdetails:Thissectionlistsallthecostschargedoneachentity,therolled‐upcostsofitschildentities,
andthetotalfixedcosts.Italsoprovidesinformationaboutthecostmodel,theattributessetonthe
entities,andinformationalmessagesfortheentities.Thereportcontainsaseparatecost
detailssectionfor
eachentity.Thissectiondisplaysthebaserates,ratefactors,usedunits,usagereservation,andtotalcost
foreachcomputingresourceofeachvirtualmachine.
Acostcomparisonreportenablesyoutocomparethecostsfortwodifferentcostmodels.Thereportstructure
issimilartothecost
reportwiththefollowingexceptions:
Reportsummarysectiondoesnotdisplaythetotalcost.
Theremainingsectionsappearindividuallyforeachcostmodel.
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