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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
VMware vShield Manager
To obtain the usage data associated with the network entities from your vCloud Director setup in to vCenter
Chargeback Manager, you must install and configure the vShield Manager data collector. This enables metering
and charging for external network bandwidth.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager
vCenter Chargeback Manager can be integrated with vCenter Operations Manager to generate dashboard
reports on vSphere inventories. The dashboard reports showcase various information, such as, projected cost
for future time period and cost optimization opportunities along with associated cost savings for the vSphere
entities. This integration is done by adding a vCenter Server that is integrated with vCenter Operations
Manager to vCenter Chargeback Manager.
VMware IT Business Management Suite
The vCenter Chargeback Manager connector for IT Business Management Suite is a Windows-based
application that obtains the virtualization costs from vCenter Chargeback Manager and provides this cost data
to IT Business Management Suite so that it can include the virtualization costs in the Cost Model. The connector
scans vCenter Chargeback Manager for a specific hierarchy and creates a report schedule in vCenter
Chargeback Manager to generate cost report for this hierarchy on a daily basis. The connector also fetches the
generated and archived report, and provides the cost data for each virtual machine in the hierarchy to IT
Business Management Suite. IT Business Management Suite populates detailed analysis and reports in its Cost
Model and dashboard.
In an integrated setup, the connector and the vCenter Chargeback Manager are deployed on site, while the IT
Business Management Suite is deployed as a SaaS application. The integration of vCenter Chargeback Manager
with IT Business Management Suite provides CIOs visibility across all IT assets, and enables them to easily
identify the cost reduction opportunities by comparing virtualization costs and physical costs.
vCenter Chargeback Manager User’s Guide
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