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Option Description
Select a pricing model
Select the pricing model to be used for generating the report.
If you are generating a report for multiple entities, you can choose to use
different pricing models for each entity by selecting the Use different pricing
models for entities option and then select the required pricing models for
each entity. Ensure that the selected pricing models have the same currency
type.
Computing Resources
Select the resources to be considered for calculating the costs and to be
reported. You can either select Disk Read and Disk Write to be reported
individually or to be reported in total as Disk Read and Write. Similarly, the
data traffic over the network can be either reported separately as Network
Received and Network Transmitted or in total as Network Received and
Transmitted.
Auto Archive
Select this option to automatically save the generated report.
5 On the Report Summary page, select Include resource summary in report.
Select this option to include the summary of costs for the selected resources in the report. You must also
select the type of resource summary to be reported. The resource summary can either be Complete
(default) or Basic. A basic summary includes the resource cost summary for only the selected entity and
its immediate child entities in the report. A complete summary provides the resource cost summary for
the selected entity and all its descendant entities up to the leaf node.
6 Select the computing resources whose usage and cost details have to included in the report.
7 Select Include cost summary in report to include the summary of costs in the report.
The cost summary can be either Complete (default) or Basic.
8 Click Next.
9 On the Details page, select the fixed cost details, usage-related details, and other information to be
displayed in the report, and click Next.
Option Description
Show these details in report
Select this option if you want to include information about the selected
pricing model or the entity attributes, or information messages in the Cost
Details section of the report. The selected information is displayed in the
report for the selected entity and all the entities that are under it in the
chargeback hierarchy.
Show these columns in the usage
details table
Select this option to include the usage statistics in the report. You must also
select the types of information that should be displayed in the usage table in
the report.
Show fixed cost in report
Select this option to include the details of the fixed costs in the report. If you
select this option, you must also select the fixed cost details to be included
in the report.
10 (Optional) On the Attributes page, select Filter the report based on attributes to define attribute filters.
You must specify an attribute name value pair. Specifying attribute filters lets you generate report for only
the entities on which the attribute name-value pair is set. Also, the report is generated on the entities only
for the time period with in the reporting duration for which the attribute name-value pair is applicable.
11 Click Submit.
The report is queued for generation. After the report is generated, it is displayed in vCenter Chargeback
Manager.
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