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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Chargeback User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vCenter Chargeback
- Installing vCenter Chargeback
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Prerequisites for vCenter Chargeback
- Download and Extract the vCenter Chargeback Installer
- Install vCenter Chargeback
- Create a vCenter Chargeback Cluster
- Install vCenter Chargeback with an Existing Database Schema
- Upgrading vCenter Chargeback
- Services Related to the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Accessing the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Data Collector
- Uninstall vCenter Chargeback
- Configuring Administration Settings
- Authenticating and Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
- Creating a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Managing a Chargeback Hierarchy
- View a Chargeback Hierarchy
- Add a vCenter Chargeback 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 Cost Elements
- Generating Reports
- Monitoring System Health
- Administration Utilities
- Troubleshooting vCenter Chargeback
- Troubleshooting Utility
- Troubleshooting Issues in vCenter Chargeback
- Changed Timezone Setting Is Not Reflected
- Changes to Chargeback Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in the Concurrent User-Sessions
- Changes to the vCenter Server Hierarchy Are Not Reflected in vCenter Chargeback
- Installer Throws the SQL Driver Not Found Error
- LDAP Server Configuration Fails
- Non-English Characters Are Not Correctly Stored in the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Report Does Not Display the Disk Read and Disk Write Information
- Report Does Not Display the Memory Usage Value and the Corresponding Cost
- Report Does Not Display the Network Transmitted and Network Received Information
- Service Temporarily Unavailable Error
- Status of Failed Data Collector Is Not Reflected Immediately on the System Health Tab
- Storage Synchronization Job Fails
- Text and Messages on the vCenter Chargeback User Interface Are Not Correctly Displayed
- Unable to Access the vCenter Chargeback Application
- Unable to Add an LDAP Server
- Unable to Add vCenter Server in vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Change the Password for the vCenter Chargeback Keystore
- Unable to Configure Another VMware Cloud Director Setup with vCenter Chargeback
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Chargeback Database
- Unable to Connect to the vCenter Server Database
- Unable to Email Report
- Unable to Fetch the Primary Group of a LDAP User
- Unable to Use Custom SSL Certificates
- Unable to View the vCenter Chargeback Plug-In in the VI Client
- Index
2 Provide the required search parameters.
Parameter Description
Name of Report
Name or part of the name of the report. You can either search for reports that
have the specified name or the ones that do not have the specified name.
Hierarchy name
Name of a chargeback hierarchy. You can search for all the reports that are
generated on a hierarchy or any of its entities by specifying the name of the
hierarchy. You can also search for reports that are not generated on a
specified hierarchy or any of its entities.
Created by user
You can search for reports created and archived by a specific user or the ones
that are not created by the specified user.
Cost Model
You can search for reports that are generated by using the specified cost
model or the ones that are not generated by using the specified cost model.
Entity Name
You can search for reports that are generated on the specified entity or the
ones that are not generated on the specified entity.
Number of entities
The number of entities for which the report is generated. This is a value range.
The search result includes reports that have total number of entities in the
specified range.
Total cost in report
The value of total cost in the archived reports. This is a value range. The
search result includes reports that have total cost in the specified range.
3 Specify the filters to sort the search results.
You can specify two filter levels. The results can be sorted based on the report name, hierarchy name,
entity name, or page count.
4 Click Search.
The reports that match the criteria specified by using the search parameters are displayed in the table on the
Archived Reports page of the Reports tab.
Report Dashboard
Starting with this release, vCenter Chargeback provides a report dashboard. The dashboard displays various
graphs that provide information about the resource cost and usage for a selected hierarchy for the last 30 days
excluding the current date.
The report dashboard is divided in to two sections: Details of selected entity and Recent reports.
The Details of selected entity section provides the following information:
n
Name of the selected entity.
n
Total cost of the entity.
n
The Cost per Resource, Cost per Child Entity, and Usage per Child Entity graphs.
n
Option to view the following Top N reports:
n
Top N most expensive VMs
n
Top N least expensive VMs
n
Top N CPU consuming VMs
n
Top N Memory consuming VMs
Here, N can take the values 10, 20, and 50.
The Recent reports part of the dashboard displays the recently generated reports.
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