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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
- Contents
- About the User's Guide
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Resource Based Authorization in vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Permissions Defined in vCenter Chargeback Manager
- Managing Roles
- Managing Users
- vCenter Chargeback Manager User Authentication
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Chargeback Manager Entity
- Add a vCenter Server 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
- Allocate Computing Resource Units for a Chargeback Entity
- Share Virtual Machine Cost
- Backdate a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View Properties of a vCenter Server Entity
- Managing and Configuring vCenter Chargeback Manager Cost Elements
- Generating Reports
- Monitoring System Health
- Administration Utilities
- Index
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For each optimization opportunity, the corresponding virtual machines along with the configured and
recommended resource-cost details are listed.
NOTE
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The graphs and optimization reports are generated only if the vCenter Server user, which was used for
adding the vCenter Server to vCenter Chargeback Manager, has either the Global.vCenter Operations
User privilege or the Global.vCenter Operations Admin privilege assigned on the root folder.
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Cost projection reports are enabled only with pure usage-based cost model, else graphs based on only
past 30 days data are displayed. If the hierarchy is less than 30 days old and is not back-dated, then the
graph based on the available data is displayed.
Configure Hierarchy for Display in Report Dashboard
You can configure a chargeback hierarchy so that its usage and cost statistics for the hierarchy and its entities
are visible in the report dashboard.
Only users with the Super User role assigned to them can perform this task.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage Hierarchy tab.
2 Select the chargeback hierarchy from the drop-down menu on the left pane of the page.
The collapsed view of the chargeback hierarchy is displayed. The right pane provides various details about
the selected hierarchy.
3 Click the arrow icon next to Tools below the hierarchy.
The Hierarchy tools options are displayed.
4 Select Show this hierarchy in the Report Dashboard against the Cost Model.
5 Select a cost model.
If the hierarchy contains entities from a vCenter Server that is integrated with vCenter Operations, then
to obtain the cost projection and cost optimization details you must use a pure usage based cost model.
6 Set the time of the day when the report in the dashboard has to be updated.
The time must be specified in the hh:mm:ss format.
7 Click Update.
8 Click OK in the information dialog box.
What to do next
The report dashboard displays the usage and cost statistics for the hierarchy after the time specified during
configuration. The report is updated each day at this specified time.
View Hierarchy Details in the Report Dashboard
If a chargeback hierarchy is configured for display in the report dashboard, then you can view the resource
usage and cost statistics for the hierarchy and its entities in the Dashboard page of the application.
Prerequisites
To perform this task, you must have read privilege on the hierarchy and on the corresponding cost model used
to configure the report dashboard.
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