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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
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy are not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Index
vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
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Operating Systems
ThevCenterChargebackapplicationcanbeinstalledandrunonthefollowingoperatingsystems:
MicrosoftWindows2003ServerwithSP2
MicrosoftWindows2003ServerR2
MicrosoftWindows2008Server
Database Management Systems
vCenterChargebacksupportsthefollowingdatabasemanagementsystems(both32bitand64bit):
MicrosoftSQLServer2005(StandardandEnterprise)
MicrosoftSQLServer2008(StandardandEnterprise)
OracleDatabase10g(StandardandEnterprise)
OracleDatabase11g(StandardandEnterprise)
Web Browsers
vCenterChargebackisabrowser‐basedapplicationthatistestedandsupportedonthefollowing:
MicrosoftInternetExplorer6.xand7.x
MozillaFirefox2.xand3.x
AlthoughvCenterChargebackcanbeaccessedthroughaMicrosoftInternetExplorer6.xorMozillaFirefox 2.x
Webbrowser,VMwarerecommendsthatyouuseaMicrosoftInternetExplorer7.xorMozillaFirefox 3.x
Web browser.
VMware vCenter Server
vCenterChargebacksupportsVirtualCenterServer2.5Update3andlaterreleasesandvCenterServer4.0.
Prerequisites for vCenter Chargeback
YouneedtoperformthefollowingtasksbeforeinstallingthevCenterChargebackapplication:
CreateavCenterChargebackDatabaseandDatabaseUser
vCenterChargebackstorestheapplication‐specificdata,suchascostmodels,chargebackhierarchies,and
usersandroles,inthevCenterChargebackdatabase.Youmust,therefore,firstcreateadatabasefor
storingthisdata.ThedatabasemanagementsystemssupportedbyvCenterChargebackarelisted
in
“DatabaseManagementSystems”onpage 14.Youcaneithercreatethedatabaseyourselfbyreferringto
thecorrespondingproductdocumentationoraskyourdatabaseadministratortocreateoneforyou.
IfyouusinganOracledatabaseasthevCenterChargebackdatabase,youmustconfigurethedatabaseto
usetheUnicode(AL32UTF8)
charactersettosupportthefollowingscenarios:
YouwanttodeploythevCenterChargebackdatabaseinanon‐Englishenvironment.
YouwanttosynchronizethevCenterChargebackdatabasewithavCenterServerdatabasethathas
non‐Englishdata.
AfteryoucreatethevCenterChargebackdatabase,youmustalsocreateadatabaseusertoaccessthis
database.Ensurethatthedatabaseuserhastheprivilegestocreateanddeleteschema,aswell
asread
fromandwritetothedatabase.