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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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Chapter 7 Generating Reports
Showthesecolumnsintheusagetable:ThisoptionisavailableonlyiftheShowthesedetailsin
reportoptionisselected.Selectthisoptiontoincludetheusagestatisticsinthereport.Youmustalso
selectthetypesofinformationthatshouldbedisplayedintheusagetablein
thereport.
Showfixedcostinreport:ThisoptionisavailableonlyiftheShowthesedetailsinreportoptionis
selected.Selectthisoptiontoincludethedetailsofthefixedcostsinthereport.Ifyouselectthis
option,youmustalsoselectthefixedcostdetailstobeincluded
inthereport.
6ClickGenerateReport.
Thegeneratedreportisdisplayedontherightpane.
Generate Cost Comparison Report
Youcancomparethecostscalculatedbytwodifferentcostmodelsonthesameentityorhierarchyby
generatingacostcomparisonreport.
To generate a cost comparison report
1IntheReportstab,clickCreateReport.
2 Selecttherequiredchargebackhierarchyfromthedrop‐downlistontheleftpaneofthepage.
Thecollapsedviewof
thechargebackhierarchyisdisplayed.Togeneratethereportforanentityinthe
hierarchy,expandthehierarchybyclickingtheplussign(+)totheleftofthehierarchyname.Thefirst
levelentitiesofthehierarchyisdisplayed.Tofurtherexpand,clicktheplussigntotheleftof
theentities
thathavesub‐entities.
3Right‐clicktheentityforwhichyouwanttogeneratethereportandselectGenerateComparisonReport
onthisEntityfromthepop‐upmenu.
TheCreateReportscreenisdisplayed.
Youcanalsogenerateacostcomparisonreportfortheentirehierarchybyright‐clicking
thehierarchyand
selectingGenerateComparisonReportonthisHierarchy.
4EnterthefollowinginformationontheGeneraltab:
Name:Enterameaningfulnameforthereport.Thecharacterlimitforthereportnameis
255 characters.
Description:Provideanoptionaldescriptionofthereport.Thecharacterlimitforthereport
descriptionis255characters.
CostModels:Selectthetwodifferentcostmodelstobeusedforgeneratingthecomparisonreport
fromthelists.
ComputationResources:Selecttheresourcestobeconsideredforcalculatingthecostsandtobe
reported.YoucaneitherselectDiskReadandDiskWritetobereportedindividuallyortobe
reportedintotalasDiskReadandWrite.Similarly,thedatatrafficoverthenetworkcanbeeither
reportedseparatelyasNetworkReceivedandNetworkTransmittedorintotalasNetwork
ReceivedandTransmitted.
Generatethereportnow:(default)Specifytheeffectiveperiodforgeneratingthereportbyproviding
thestartdateandenddateforthereportingduration.Thisreportingdurationisthetimeperiodfor
whichtheusagestatsofcomputingresourceswillberetrievedandusedforcalculatingthecosts.The
entity‐specificcostconfigurationdetailsapplicableduringthistimeperiodwillalsobeused.Ensure
thatthedatesareenteredinthemm/dd/yyyyformat.
5 SelecttheCostInfotabandprovidethefollowinginformation:
Includecostsummaryinreport:Selectthisoptiontoincludethesummaryofthecostsinthereport.
Youmustalsoselectthetypeofcostsummarytobereported.ThecostsummarycaneitherbeBasic
(default)orComplete.Abasiccostsummaryincludesthecostsummaryforthe
entityandits
immediatechildinthereport.Acompletecostsummaryprovidesthecostsummaryfortheselected
entityandallitschildentities.