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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
utilization details at each entity level. In a cost report,
this section also includes the following graphs for each
entity level starting with the entity on which the report
is generated:
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Cost per Resource
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Cost per Child Entity
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Usage per Child Entity
If the cost and usage data is not available for a specified
period, then the graphs for this period are excluded
from the exported report. Also, if a report is generated
on a virtual machine or an entity without any child
entities, then the report does not include any graphs.
Chargeback
Cost Details
This section lists all the costs charged on each entity,
the rolled-up costs of its child entities, and the total
fixed costs. It also provides information about the
pricing model, the attributes set on the entities, and
informational messages for the entities. The report
contains a separate cost details section for each entity.
This section displays the base rates, rate factors, used
units, attribution percentage, and total cost for each
computing resource of each virtual machine.
Usage Report
A usage report is similar to a cost report except that it provides only the
computing resource utilization data. This report type is useful when you only
want to analyze the resource utilization for various entities in a hierarchy. The
report structure is similar to the cost report with the following exceptions:
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Report does not include the Cost Summary section.
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The Report Summary section does not include any cost information.
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The Resource Summary section does not include any cost information.
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The Resource Summary section includes only the Usage per Child Entity
graph.
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The Cost details section is not applicable. Instead, the report includes the
Usage details section. This section provides the usage details of each
computing resource for each entity separately. This section does not
include any cost-related information other than the pricing model used for
generating the report.
Cost Comparison Report
A cost comparison report enables you to compare the costs for each resource
and entity based on two different pricing models. The report structure is similar
to the cost report with the following exceptions:
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Report summary section does not display the total cost.
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