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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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Create a Fixed Cost on page 78
You must create the fixed costs that you want to charge on the entities and hierarchies. These costs can
include periodically charged costs and one time costs.
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Modify a Fixed Cost on page 79
You can modify the fixed costs as and when required.
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Delete a Fixed Cost on page 80
You can delete invalid or unwanted fixed costs from the application.
Create a Fixed Cost
You must create the fixed costs that you want to charge on the entities and hierarchies. These costs can include
periodically charged costs and one time costs.
When defining fixed costs, you can specify whether the cost must be prorated. Prorated fixed costs are
considered only for the time for which they are applied on the entity.
For example, you define a fixed cost that must be charged on a monthly basis and assign this cost on an entity
on the fifteenth day of the month. At the end of the month when you generate a report on this entity or any of
its parent entity, the cost for only the second half of the month would be accounted for.
Also, if an entity is moved within the hierarchy after a prorated fixed cost is applied to it, then the rolled-up
fixed cost on the new and old parent entities is accounted for only the duration for which the child entity was
in the branch of the parent entities.
You must have create privilege for the fixed cost resource type on vCenter Chargeback Manager to perform
this task.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Fixed Cost.
A table listing all the fixed costs created in the application is displayed. You can view the details of the
fixed cost by clicking the plus sign (+) in the Details column of the table. The details include the value of
the cost, the duration indicating how often the cost is charged, and the time period for which the set value
and duration is valid or applicable.
2 Click Create.
The Fixed Cost screen is displayed.
3 Provide the fixed cost details on the General tab.
Option Description
Name
A name for the fixed cost. The character limit for the fixed cost name is 255
characters.
Description
An optional description of the fixed cost. The character limit for the
description is 512 characters.
Currency
The currency type used for defining the fixed cost.
Prorate
Select this option to specify that the fixed cost is prorated.
Consider VM State
If selected, the fixed cost is accounted only for the duration for which the
virtual machine is in the powered on state.
One Time
If the defined cost has to be charged only once on the chargeback entity or
hierarchy, then select this option. If you select this option, then you cannot
set any duration value for the fixed cost. Also, one-time fixed costs cannot
be prorated and do not consider the virtual machine power state.
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