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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
11 Select the Enable/Disable Billing tab to configure the billing status.
Option Description
Enable (default)
This option enables billing on the entity for the specified time period. You
can use this option if billing was earlier disabled on the entity for the specified
time period.
Disable
Select this option if you want to disable billing on the entity for the specified
time period.
12 Click Update Billing.
When you click Update Billing, only the defined billing status is set on the entity. No other cost
configuration is set.
The cost configuration details are set on the entity for the selected duration and pricing model.
What to do next
You must repeat this procedure for each pricing model that you want to configure on the entity.
Physical Infrastructure Costing
In vCenter Chargeback Manager you can define rate factors also at the host and cluster level and the datastore
level. You can do this from the Edit Infrastructure Cost page of the Configure Cost tab.
When you generate a report on a chargeback hierarchical entity or a chargeback hierarchy, vCenter Chargeback
Manager checks whether any entity-specific cost configuration is set on the entity or the entities in the hierarchy
for the selected pricing model. If the entity-specific cost configuration details are specified, vCenter Chargeback
Manager uses these details and generates the report.
If no entity-specific cost configuration details are available for the selected pricing model, vCenter Chargeback
Manager checks whether any rate factors are set at the host and cluster level and the datastore level for the
virtual machines on which reports are being generated. If rate factors are set at these levels for the selected
pricing model, then vCenter Chargeback Manager uses the rate factors when calculating the costs and
generating the report.
Set Rate Factors at the Hosts and Clusters Level
vCenter Chargeback Manager lets you set rate factors at the hosts and clusters level. You can charge all the
virtual machines in a cluster or on an ESXi host uniformly by setting rate factors at the hosts and clusters level.
NOTE You cannot set the rate factor for the storage resource at the hosts and clusters level.
Prerequisites
You must have read privilege on the vCenter Server, entity cost modify privilege on the chargeback hierarchical
entities, and update privilege on the pricing models to perform this task.
Procedure
1 In the Configure Cost tab, click Edit Infrastructure Cost.
2 Select Hosts & Clusters from the drop-down menu.
3 Expand the Hosts & Clusters folder by clicking the plus sign.
4 Click the plus sign next to Clusters to view the clusters defined in the vCenter Server instances added to
vCenter Chargeback Manager.
To view the ESXi hosts that are not included in any cluster, you can click the plus sign next to Unclustered
Hosts.
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