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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
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Contents
AboutThisBook 7
1 IntroductiontovCenterChargeback 9
WhatIsChargeback? 9
ChargebackSolutionforVirtualizedEnvironments 9
OverviewofvCenterChargeback 10
2 InstallingvCenterChargeback 13
SystemRequirements 13
HardwareRequirements 13
SoftwareRequirements 13
OperatingSystems 14
DatabaseManagementSystems 14
WebBrowsers 14
VMwarevCenterServer 14
PrerequisitesforvCenterChargeback 14
Pre‐InstallationChecklist 15
InstallvCenterChargeback 16
BasicInstallationorFirst‐TimeInstallation 16
ClusterInstallation 18
BasicInstallationUsingExistingDatabaseSchema 20
StartingthevCenterChargebackApplication 21
DownloadingandInstallingDataCollector 22
DeployingvCenterChargebackasaVirtualAppliance 23
Managingthe
vCenterChargebackVirtualAppliance 25
UninstallingvCenterChargeback 25
3 ConfiguringAdministrationSettings 27
EnterLicenseKey 27
ConfigureGenericSettings 27
ConfiguretheLDAPServerSetting 28
ConfiguretheSMTPServerSettings 29
SetCurrency 30
SetLogLevel 30
ManagevCenterServers 31
AddvCenterServerInformation 31
EditvCenterServerInformation 32
DeletevCenterServerInformation 32
ManageDataCollectors 33
ViewDataCollectors 33
EnableDataCollector 34
DisableDataCollector 34
DeleteDataCollector 34
ManageLicense 35
ReplaceLicense 35
DeleteLicense 35
ManageReportTemplate 36