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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
Managing Chargeback Hierarchies 4
vCenter Chargeback Manager interacts with the vCenter Server to determine the utilization of the computing
resources by various virtual machines that are created in the vCenter Server hierarchy. vCenter Chargeback
Manager enables you to create multiple chargeback hierarchies, which can be different from the vCenter Server
hierarchies.
A chargeback hierarchy is an organization of vCenter Server entities and vCenter Chargeback Manager entities.
The vCenter Server entities include virtual machines, ESX Server hosts, data centers, resource pools, host
folders, and virtual machine folders. A chargeback hierarchy can contain entities from more than one vCenter
Server. The vCenter Chargeback Manager entities are custom entities that could represent a logical parent for
the vCenter Server entities. For example, the vCenter Chargeback Manager entities could represent the
departments, cost centers, or business units in an organization. A vCenter Chargeback Manager entity can
contain one or more vCenter Server entities and vCenter Chargeback Manager entities.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy,” on page 60
Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
To identify the resource utilization and generate a usage or cost report, you must first create a chargeback
hierarchy and add the required entities to it.
You can create one or more chargeback hierarchies in the application as per your requirements. Creating
multiple chargeback hierarchies lets you organize a set of vCenter Server entities in multiple ways and also
identify and compare the costs for each of these hierarchies. You can also create one hierarchy for each vCenter
Server.
Create a Custom Chargeback Hierarchy
You can create a custom chargeback hierarchy and add vCenter Server entities and vCenter Chargeback
Manager entities to it.
To perform this task, you must have a role with the create privilege for the hierarchy resource type assigned
to you on vCenter Chargeback Manager.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Hierarchy tab, click Create Hierarchy.
The Create Hierarchy screen is displayed.
2 Enter a name and description for the hierarchy.
The name must not exceed 255 characters and the description must not exceed 512 characters in length.
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