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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 pricing 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 103
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“Generate a Cost Report,” on page 106
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“Generate a Usage Report,” on page 108
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“Generate Cost Comparison Report,” on page 109
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“Generate Showback Report,” on page 111
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“Scheduling Report Generation,” on page 113
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“Managing Reports,” on page 119
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“Managing Archived Reports,” on page 124
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“Managing Automatic Report Scheduler,” on page 127
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“Report Dashboard,” on page 129
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 pricing 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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