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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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6 CreatingandConfiguringaCostModel 57
vCenterChargebackCost‐RelatedElements 57
ChargeableComputingResource 57
BaseRate 58
RateFactor 58
FixedCost 58
BillingPolicy 58
CostModel 59
CostTemplate 59
ManageCostModels 60
CreateaCostModel 60
ModifyaCostModel 61
DeleteaCostModel 62
ManageGlobalFixedCosts 62
CreateaGlobalFixedCost 62
ModifyaGlobalFixedCost 63
DeleteaGlobalFixedCost 63
ManageCostTemplates 63
Createa
CostTemplate 63
ModifyaCostTemplate 65
DeleteaCostTemplate 65
ConfigureCostattheEntityLevel 66
ViewCostConfigurationofanEntity 66
EditCostConfigurationofanEntity 66
7 GeneratingReports 69
AboutReports 69
GenerateaCostReport 70
GenerateCostComparisonReport 71
CreateReportGenerationSchedules 72
SchedulingParameters 72
ScheduleReportGeneration 73
ManageReportGenerationSchedules 73
RescheduleReportGeneration 74
RemoveaSchedule 74
EmailaScheduledReport 74
ManageReports 75
ArchiveReport 75
ScheduleReport 75
EmailReport 76
ExportReport 76
ManageArchivedReports 76
ViewArchivedReport 77
RescheduleArchivedReport 77
EmailArchivedReport 78
DeleteArchivedReport 78