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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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8EnterausernameandpasswordforthevCenterChargebackadministrativeaccount,andclickNext.
Thepasswordmustnotexceed24charactersinlength.
9 (Optional)ChoosetoinstallthedatacollectorandclickNext.
TheInstallDataCollectoroptionisselectedbydefault.Youmusthaveatleastoneinstanceofthedata
collectorthatisrunningandregisteredwiththeapplicationforthedatabasesynchronizationjobstorun.
10 ReviewtheinformationdisplayedonthePre‐InstallationSummaryscreen,andclickInstall.
Theinstallerstartsinstallingthevariouscomponentsandcreatingthedatabaseschema.Iftheinstallation
issuccessful,theURLfor
accessingthevCenterChargebackapplicationisdisplayed.
11 NotethisURL,andclickDone.
EnsurethatthesystemtimeofvCenterChargeback,vCenterChargebackdatabase,andthedatacollectorare
insync.
Cluster Installation
WhenyouinstallthevCenterChargebackapplicationforthefirsttimeonamachine,aloadbalancerisalso
installed.TheexistenceoftheloadbalancerenablesyoutohavemorethanoneinstanceofthevCenter
Chargebackapplicationrunning,witheachinstanceaccessingthesamevCenterChargebackdatabase.These
vCenter
Chargebackinstancesformacluster.Alluserrequestsareroutedthroughtheloadbalancer.Also,all
theinstancesintheclustersharethesameadministrativeaccountinformation.
TheloadbalancerensuresthatnosinglevCenterChargebackinstanceisloadeddisproportionatelywithuser
requests.Also,ifoneoftheinstancesfails,any
requestcurrentlybeingservicedbythatinstanceis
automaticallyredirectedtoanotherinstanceinthecluster.Forthefailovertohappensuccessfully,youmust
ensurethefollowing:
AllthevCenterChargebackinstancesinthecluster,thevCenterChargebackdatabase,andthedata
collectorshavethesamesystemtime.Thatis,thesystemtimesareinsync.
AllthevCenterChargebackinstancesintheclusterareinthesamenetworkdomain.
MulticastingmustbeenabledonthemachineonwhichthevCenterChargebackinstanceisinstalled.
To install the application
1RunthevCenter-CB.exefile.
Theinstallationwizardisdisplayed.
2ClickNextontheIntroductionscreen.
3Accepttheend‐userlicenseagreement,andclickNext.
4Providethepathfortheinstallationdirectory,andclickNext.
Ensurethatthe
installationdirectorypathhasatleastonedirectory(forexample,
C:\vCenterChargeback10\)anddoesnotpointtojustadrive(forexample,C:\).Ifthespecified
installationdirectoryexists,ensurethatitisempty.Ifthespecifiedinstallationdirectorydoesnotexist,
theinstallerwillcreatethedirectory.
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OTEIftheinstallationfailsduetosomereason,theuninstallerisinvokedautomaticallyandallthe
componentsinstalledtillthefailureoccurredisremov ed.