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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
3 Provide a name and description for the billing policy.
Option Description
Name
Name for the billing policy. This is mandatory information. The character
limit for the name is 255 characters.
Description
An optional description of the billing policy. The character limit for the
description is 512 characters.
4 Select the Expression tab.
5 Select a resource and define an expression for it.
a To include only an attribute, select the required attribute from the Attribute drop-down menu.
The following attributes are available in vCenter Chargeback Manager.
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Allocation: The user-defined allocation value for the resource is considered for cost calculation.
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Usage: The actual resource usage is considered for cost calculation.
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Reservation: The amount of resource reserved by the user is considered for cost calculation. This
attribute is available only for CPU and memory.
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Burstable Utilization: This attribute lets you account for the 95th percentile of actual utilization.
This attribute is available only for the external network transmit rate and external network receive
rate computing resources.
b To obtain a maximum of a set of attribute values, click MAX and then select the required attributes
from the Attribute drop-down menu.
c To calculate the resource units only for the powered-on virtual machine, first select the VM Power
On/Off option and then define the required expression for the selected resource.
d To account for the storage linked clones, select the Distribute Linked Clones option. This option is
available only if you define an expression for the storage resource. Accounting for linked clones is
only supported with vCenter Server 4.0 and later.
e To charge thin provisioned disks as thick provisioned, select the Charge as Thick Provisioning
option. This option is available only if you define an expression for the storage resource. Charging as
thick provisioning is only supported with vCenter Server 4.0 and later.
f Repeat this step for each computing resource. You can select All other resources from the Resource
drop-down menu and define an expression for all the computing resources for which an expression
has not been defined in the billing policy.
NOTE The billing policy must account for all the computing resources.
6 (Optional) Select Add/Include Fixed Cost to consider the fixed costs during cost calculation.
7 Click Create.
The created billing policy is displayed in the table on the Billing Policy page.
Example: A Sample Billing Policy Expression
Let us try to define a billing policy that accounts for the maximum of reserved units and actual utilization for
memory and CPU only for virtual machines that are powered on, maximum of allocated or provisioned storage
and also consider the linked clones, the number of vCPUs, and allocation value for all other resources.
Table 5-3 lists the resources and the corresponding conditions, operators, and attributes for defining this billing
policy expression.
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