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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
Generating Reports 6
After creating and configuring chargeback hierarchies and defining cost models, you can generate various cost
reports, usage reports, cost comparison reports, and showback reports. The reports provide you with valuable
information such as the usage of resources, the charge to levied on each entity, and the total cost.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“About Reports,” on page 95
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“Generate a Cost Report,” on page 98
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“Generate a Usage Report,” on page 100
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“Generate Cost Comparison Report,” on page 101
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“Generate Showback Report,” on page 103
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“Scheduling Report Generation,” on page 105
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“Managing Reports,” on page 111
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“Managing Archived Reports,” on page 115
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“Managing Automatic Report Scheduler,” on page 118
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“Report Dashboard,” on page 120
About Reports
vCenter Chargeback Manager enables you to generate cost reports, usage reports, cost comparison reports,
and showback reports for a chargeback hierarchy and for entities in the hierarchy.
Cost Report
A cost report provides the cost and utilization information for each computing
resource for the hierarchy or entity on which the report is generated based on
the cost configured in the hierarchy and the cost model selected during report
generation. An exported chargeback cost report includes various sections.
Report
Summary
This section appear immediately below the report title
on the first page of the report and includes the
information provided in Table 6-1.
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