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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
View Hierarchy Details in the Report Dashboard
If a chargeback hierarchy is configured for display in the report dashboard, then you can view the resource
usage and cost statistics for the hierarchy and its entities in the Dashboard page of the application.
The report dashboard shows the last generated reports, according to the report dashboard configuration, for
the selected hierarchy. The report dashboard is refreshed everyday with the new set of reports generated at
the time specified during report dashboard configuration.
Prerequisites
To perform this task, you must have read privilege on the hierarchy and on the corresponding pricing model
used to configure the report dashboard.
Procedure
1 In the Reports tab, click Dashboard.
2 Select the hierarchy from the drop-down menu.
The collapsed view of the hierarchy is displayed. If the hierarchy contains entities from a vCenter Server
that is integrated with vCenter Operations, the right pane of the dashboard shows two tabs: Cost
Projection and Cost Optimization.
3 Expand the hierarchy and select the entity for which you want to view the resource cost and usage statistics.
The dashboard displays the Cost per Resource, Cost per child Entity, and Cost per Day graphs. If the
hierarchy contains entities from a vCenter Server that is integrated with vCenter Operations, then the
Cost Projection tab shows the Cost per Resource and Cost per Day graphs. For all entities, the graphs
show data for the last 30 days. For entities of vCenter Servers that are integrated with vCenter Operations,
the graphs include data for the next 90 days only if the hierarchy is configured for displaying data on the
report dashboard using a pure usage-based pricing model.
4 You can obtain different Top N report data for the selected entity.
For an entity from a vCenter Server that is integrated with vCenter Operations, perform the followings
steps to obtain the Top N reports.
a Click Top VMs.
b Select a value for N from the drop-down menu next to Top.
The values available are 10, 20, and 50.
c Select the report type from the report type drop-down menu.
d Select the duration from the duration drop-down menu.
e Click Fetch.
The Top N report for the selected entity is displayed.
f Select the virtual machine name from the report to view the Cost per Resource graph for the selected
virtual machine.
5 To view the cost optimization opportunities for a vCenter Operations integrated vCenter Server entity,
select the Cost Optimization tab.
The tab displays the various cost optimization opportunities.
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