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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
6 Enter the value of the cost and select the duration indicating how often the cost is incurred.
The duration can be Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half-yearly, or Yearly.
For one time costs, duration is not applicable.
7 If you are defining the cost for a specific time period, click Set.
You can set more than one value and duration for different time periods by repeating Step 4, Step 6, and
Step 7.
8 Click Save.
The modified fixed cost is displayed in the table listing the fixed costs. You can view the modified cost details
of the fixed cost by clicking the plus sign (+) in the Details column of the table.
Delete a Fixed Cost
You can delete invalid or unwanted fixed costs from the application.
You must have delete privilege on the fixed cost to remove it from the application.
CAUTION Deleting a fixed cost removes it from the entities on which it is configured and does not reflect in a
report. Only fixed costs that exist in the application at the time of report generation are included in the report.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Fixed Cost.
A table listing all the fixed costs created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the fixed cost that you want to delete, and click Delete.
A dialog box confirming the action is displayed.
3 Click OK.
The fixed cost is deleted from the application and, consequently, from the table listing the fixed costs.
Managing Cost Templates
vCenter Chargeback Manager enables you to create cost templates that contain entity-specific cost
configuration details.
The cost templates defined in the application can be viewed and managed from the Cost Template page of the
Manage Cost tab.
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Create a Cost Template on page 81
Entity-specific cost configuration, such as the rate factors and fixed costs, must be defined on the entity.
If you want to apply a standard entity-specific cost setting on more than one entity, you can create a cost
template that contains these settings, and apply the same to the required entities.
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Modify a Cost Template on page 81
After a cost template is created, you can modify it as and when required.
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Delete a Cost Template on page 82
Invalid or unwanted cost templates can be removed from the application. However, deleting a cost
template does not remove the entity-specific cost settings applied on the entities using the cost template.
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