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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
Cost Model
A cost model defines base rates for the chargeable computing resources, the currency, the billing policy to be
used for calculating the total cost, and other costs.
The other costs include cost for the guest operating system installed on the virtual machine and cost for
vServices such as, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and virtual machine creation and deletion cost. A cost
model also enables you to define different billing policies for different time periods. After you define a cost
model in the application, you can define rate factors and fixed costs on entities or hierarchies for the selected
cost model. You can also use the cost model to generate various reports.
Cost Template
A cost template consists of entity-specific cost configuration details. These are rate factors for the chargeable
computing resources and the fixed costs.
You can set these values in a cost template and use the template to configure the costs on one or more entities
in the hierarchies.
Managing Cost Models
vCenter Chargeback Manager provides a default cost model called Default Chargeback Cost Model. The cost
models defined in the application can be viewed and managed from the Cost Models page of the Manage
Cost tab.
You can start using the application by creating a chargeback hierarchy and generating basic reports using the
default cost model. You can modify this cost model as per your requirements. You can also create and manage
multiple other cost models.
Starting with vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.0, the application includes the Default Allocation Based
Chargeback Cost Model. You must only modify the base rates in this cost model.
If you have installed the VMware Cloud Director Data Collector, vCenter Chargeback Manager provides few
more cost models:
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VMware Cloud Director Actual Usage Cost Model
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VMware Cloud Director Allocation Pool Cost Model
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VMware Cloud Director Overage Allocation Pool Cost Model
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VMware Cloud Director Reservation Pool
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VMware Cloud Director Pay As You Go - Fixed Charging Cost Model
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VMware Cloud Director Pay As You Go - Resource Based Charging Cost Model
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VMware Cloud Director Networks Cost Model
NOTE These cost models do not define any base rates or fixed costs. You must modify the cost models and set
the required base rates and fixed costs before using them for generating reports. If you define and include fixed
costs in these cost models, ensure that you modify the corresponding billing policies and select the Add/Include
Fixed Cost option.
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Create a Cost Model on page 74
You can create multiple cost models in vCenter Chargeback Manager. Defining multiple cost models
enables you to charge different sets of entities or hierarchies differently. It also enables you to compare
the costs calculated using different cost models for a hierarchy or a set of entities.
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Modify a Cost Model on page 76
After a cost model is created, you can modify it as and when required.
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