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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
6 Click Create.
The newly created fixed cost is added to the table listing the fixed costs.
What to do next
After a fixed cost is created, you can associate it with an entity, a set of entities, or hierarchies. This can be done
while configuring costs at the entity level. Fixed costs can also be added to a template and then set on an entity
or a hierarchy.
Modify a Fixed Cost
You can modify the fixed costs as and when required.
You must have update privilege on the fixed cost to modify it.
vCenter Chargeback Manager does not maintain a history for the Prorate and Consider VM State options of
a fixed cost. Therefore, if you change these options, vCenter Chargeback Manager uses the values set for these
options on the fixed cost at the time of report generation immaterial of when these options were modified on
the fixed cost.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Fixed Cost.
A table listing all the fixed costs created in the application is displayed. You can view the details of the
fixed cost by clicking the plus sign (+) in the Details column of the table. The details include the value of
the cost, the duration indicating how often the cost is charged, and the time period for which the set value
and duration is valid or applicable.
2 Select the fixed cost that you want to modify and click Edit.
The Fixed Cost screen is displayed.
3 In the General tab, modify the fixed cost details as required.
NOTE You cannot modify the currency type and the One Time option.
4 In the Cost Details tab, set the period for which the modified cost value and duration will be effective.
The default selection is Update from now onwards, indicating that the defined cost detail will be effective
from the time of updating the fixed cost till infinity.
The other option is Update for the effective period. If you select this option, you must specify the start
and end date of the period for which the cost will be effective. You must enter the dates in the
mm/dd/yyyy format. If the end date is not specified, the cost detail will be effective from the specified start
date till infinity.
5 (Optional) To fetch the cost values and duration set for a specific time period, select the Update for the
effective period option, specify the start and end dates of the time period, and then click Fetch.
6 Enter the value of the cost and select the duration indicating how often the cost is incurred.
The duration can be Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half-yearly, or Yearly.
For one time costs, duration is not applicable.
7 If you are defining the cost for a specific time period, click Set.
You can set more than one value and duration for different time periods by repeating Step 4, Step 6, and
Step 7.
8 Click Save.
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