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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
Add vCenter Server Information
vCenter Chargeback Manager can calculate overall resource utilization and corresponding cost only for
vCenter Servers that are added to the application. You can add one or more vCenter Server instances to vCenter
Chargeback Manager.
You must have the Super User role or the Administrator role to perform this task.
IMPORTANT We recommend that you do not add a vCenter Server 5.0 or vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 server to
vCenter Chargeback Manager because of a known memory leak issue. Also, do not add a vCenter Server 5.0
Update 1a server because of a known upgrade issue in vCenter Server. If you have a vCenter Server 5.0, vCenter
Server 5.0 Update 1, or vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a server, then first upgrade this to vCenter Server 5.0 Update
1b and then configure it in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
Prerequisites
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Before you add a vCenter Server, you must ensure that the vCenter Server is accessible over the network.
Also, ensure that vCenter Server and the vCenter Server database have static IP addresses. If not, you must
provide the FQDN for such servers and databases when adding them to vCenter Chargeback Manager.
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You must ensure that the system time on the vCenter Server, vCenter Chargeback Manager, vCenter Server
database, vCenter Chargeback Manager database, and data collectors are in sync.
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When adding a vCenter Server to vCenter Chargeback Manager, you must provide a vCenter Server user
name and vCenter Server database user name. Create a clone of the Read-only role in vCenter Server and
include the following permissions in this cloned role:
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Storage views.View
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Global.Licenses
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Extension.Register extension
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Extension.Unregister extension
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Extension.Update extension
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Profile-driven storage.Profile-driven storage view; if you are using vCenter Server 5.0.
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Global.vCenter Operations User; if you have integrated the vCenter Server with VMware vCenter
Operations.
Create a user in vCenter Server for vCenter Chargeback Manager and assign this cloned role to the user.
Also, create a user in the vCenter Server database for vCenter Chargeback Manager and ensure that the
user has read access on the VPXV_HIST_STAT_DAILY, VPXV_HIST_STAT_WEEKLY, VPXV_HIST_STAT_MONTHLY, and
VPXV_HIST_STAT_YEARLY views.
NOTE Do not provide the user details that vCenter Server uses to connect to the vCenter Server database.
Procedure
1 In the Settings tab, clickvCenter Servers.
A table listing information about the vCenter Server instances added to the application is displayed.
2 Click Add.
The vCenter Server Information screen is displayed.
Chapter 2 Configuring Administration Settings
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