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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 Save.
Changes made to a cost template are not automatically reflected on the entities on which the template is applied.
You must explicitly reapply the template on the entities for the changes to take effect.
Delete a Cost Template
Invalid or unwanted cost templates can be removed from the application. However, deleting a cost template
does not remove the entity-specific cost settings applied on the entities using the cost template.
You must have delete privilege on the cost template to delete it.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Cost Template.
A table listing all the cost templates created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the cost template that you want to delete, and click Delete.
A dialog box confirming the action is displayed.
3 Click OK.
The cost template is deleted from the application and, consequently, from the table listing the cost templates.
Managing Billing Policies
vCenter Chargeback Manager provides various system-defined billing policies. In addition, it lets your define
you own billing policies.
You must have privileges on the billing policy resource type to create, update, and delete billing policies. You
can view and manage the billing policies from the Billing Policy page of the Manage Cost tab.
Create a Billing Policy
vCenter Chargeback Manager lets you to define custom billing policies as per your requirements.
A billing policy defines an expression that is used for identifying the amount of computing resources units to
be considered for calculating the costs. Therefore, a billing policy must account for all the computing resources.
The billing policy contains an expression for each resource. The expression includes an attribute value that
identifies the computing resource units to be considered for cost calculation. The attribute values can be
allocation, reservation, size, and usage. The attribute value reservation is available only for CPU and memory.
The attribute value size is available only for memory. To know more about the attributes, refer to “Attributes
for Accounting Chargeable Computing Resources,” on page 71.
The expression can be set to obtain the maximum of available attributes. You can also define an expression
that calculates the resource units only if the virtual machine is on. Also, for storage resources, you can specify
whether the expression must account for thin provisioned disks as thick provisioned. A billing policy can also
account for the fixed costs and the state of the virtual machine.
You must have create privilege for the billing policy resource type on vCenter Chargeback Manager to perform
this task.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Cost tab, click Billing Policy.
A table listing all the billing policies created in the application is displayed.
2 Click Create.
The Billing Policy screen is displayed.
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