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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 (Optional) Select Add/Include Fixed Cost to consider the fixed costs during cost calculation.
7 Click Create.
The created billing policy is displayed in the table on the Billing Policy page.
Example: A Sample Billing Policy Expression
Let us try to define a billing policy that accounts for the maximum of reservation and usage for CPU and
memory only for virtual machines that are powered on, maximum of allocation or usage for storage and also
consider the linked clones, and allocation value for all other resources.
Table 5-3 lists the resources and the corresponding conditions, operators, and attributes for defining this billing
policy expression.
Table 5-3. Sample Billing Policy Expression
Resource VM Power On/Off MAX Operator Attribute(s)
Distributed Linked
Clones
CPU Yes Yes reservation, usage N.A.
Memory Yes Yes reservation, usage N.A.
Storage No Yes allocation, usage Yes
All other resources No No allocation N.A.
In this billing policy, if you want to account for the fixed costs, then you must select the Add/Include Fixed
Cost option.
Edit a Billing Policy
You can modify the custom billing policies at any time.
You must have update privilege on the billing policy to perform this task. However, you cannot modify the
system-defined billing policies that are listed in “Billing Policy,” on page 70.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Billing Policy.
A table listing all the billing policies created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the required billing policy from the table and click Edit.
The Billing Policy screen is displayed.
3 (Optional) Modify the name and description on the General tab.
4 Select the Expression tab and modify the required expressions.
a To modify only the expression for a resource, select the resource, click Clear selected expression, and
define the new expression.
b If you want to delete a resource from the list of resources and corresponding expression, select the
resource from the list and click Delete row. You can delete all the resources by clicking Delete All.
c You can include or exclude fixed costs by selecting or deselecting the Add/Include Fixed Cost option.
5 Click Save.
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