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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
Create a Datastore Tier
You can create a datastore tier in vCenter Chargeback Manager and add various datastores and storage profiles
to it. This enables you to define a standard rate factor for a set of datastores.
You must have create privilege for the tier resource type on vCenter Chargeback Manager to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Configure Cost tab, click Edit Infrastructure Cost.
2 Select DataStores from the drop-down menu.
3 Click Create Tier at the bottom of the left panel.
4 Provide a name for the newly created tier and click outside the editable tier name field.
Datastore tier names are not case-sensitive.
A new datastore tier folder is created.
Modify the Name of a Datastore Tier
You can modify the name of the tier folder at any time after it is created.
You must have update privilege on the tier to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Configure Cost tab, click Edit Infrastructure Cost.
2 Select DataStores from the drop-down menu.
3 Right-click the tier folder whose name you want to modify and select Edit label.
4 Enter the new name for the tier folder and click outside the editable tier name field.
Add a Datastore to a Tier
After you have created a tier, you can add one or more datastores and storage profiles to it.
Adding datastores and storage profiles to a tier enables you to set rate factors for multiple datastores uniformly.
Prerequisites
You must have update privilege on the tier and read privilege on the vCenter Server to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Configure Cost tab, click Edit Infrastructure Cost.
2 Select DataStores from the drop-down menu.
3 Expand the ungrouped folder by clicking the plus sign (+) next to it.
Only the ungrouped datastores and storage profiles corresponding to the vCenter Server instances on
which you have read privilege are displayed.
4 Right-click the datastore that you want to add to a tier and select Move this Datastore to another tier.
5 Right-click the tier folder to which you want to add this datastore and select Put the Datastore/Storage
Profile in this tier.
The datastore is moved from the ungrouped folder to the selected tier folder.
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