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If you have selected a cost template, the fixed costs included in the cost template and on which you have
read privilege are added to the list of fixed costs to be applied on the selected entity. You can add more
fixed costs to this list or remove existing fixed costs from the list.
9 (Optional) Check the Propagate option corresponding to an added fixed cost, if the cost has to be applied
to the child entities of the entity on which the cost template is applied. You can also specify whether the
cost must be applied to all descendants or only to the immediate child entities. You can also select a filter
to ensure that the cost is applied to specific entity types. When a cost report is generated, the fixed costs
on the child entities are rolled-up to the parent entity.
10 Click Update Fixed Costs to set the added fixed costs on the entity.
When you click Update Fixed Costs, only the fixed costs added are set on the entity. No other cost
configuration is set.
11 Select the Enable/Disable Billing tab to configure the billing status.
Option Description
Enable (default)
This option enables billing on the entity for the specified time period. You
can use this option if billing was earlier disabled on the entity for the specified
time period.
Disable
Select this option if you want to disable billing on the entity for the specified
time period.
12 Click Update Billing.
When you click Update Billing, only the defined billing status is set on the entity. No other cost
configuration is set.
The cost configuration details are set on the entity for the selected duration and cost model.
What to do next
You must repeat this procedure for each cost model that you want to configure on the entity.
Physical Infrastructure Costing
In vCenter Chargeback Manager you can define rate factors also at the host and cluster level and the datastore
level. You can do this from the Edit Infrastructure Cost page of the Configure Cost tab.
When you generate a report on a chargeback hierarchical entity or a chargeback hierarchy, vCenter Chargeback
Manager checks whether any entity-specific cost configuration is set on the entity or the entities in the hierarchy
for the selected cost model. If the entity-specific cost configuration details are specified, vCenter Chargeback
Manager uses these details and generates the report.
If no entity-specific cost configuration details are available for the selected cost model, vCenter Chargeback
Manager checks whether any rate factors are set at the host and cluster level and the datastore level for the
virtual machines on which reports are being generated. If rate factors are set at these levels for the selected cost
model, then vCenter Chargeback Manager uses the rate factors when calculating the costs and generating the
report.
Set Rate Factors at the Hosts and Clusters Level
vCenter Chargeback Manager lets you set rate factors at the hosts and clusters level. You can charge all the
virtual machines in a cluster or on an ESXi host uniformly by setting rate factors at the hosts and clusters level.
NOTE You cannot set the rate factor for the storage resource at the hosts and clusters level.
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