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Chargeback Reports
Chargeback reports allow IaaS administrators, tenant administrators, and business group managers to
track the cumulative cost of provisioned machines over time.
Chargeback cost is calculated differently for each machine type. See Chargeback Cost Calculation.
Table 5‑1. Chargeback Reports
Situation Report Role Restrictions
Monitor machine costs at the business
group level. By default, the report shows
the first 100 most expensive machines.
You can filter these reports by business
group and by machine type, and run the
report with different time parameters. For
example, you can see the cost of all
machines owned by all business groups
last year, or you can view the cost of
physical machines owned by business
group B last week.
Chargeback by Allocated Resources
by Group
Business group managers see reports only for
the business groups that they manage. IaaS
administrators and tenant administrators see
reports for all business groups within the
tenant.
Chargeback Cost Calculation
Machine costs are calculated differently depending on the machine type, but are typically based on a
combination of cost profiles and blueprint cost settings.
For more information about creating and applying cost profiles, see the IaaS Configuration documentation
for the relevant machine type.
Cost Calculation for Virtual Machines
Several factors can contribute to the calculation of cost for virtual machines.
The daily cost of a machine is based on the cost of the memory, CPU, and storage resources that it
consumes, and the blueprint cost.
Table 5‑2. Daily Cost Drivers
Cost Driver Calculated Cost
Memory Allocated memory (GB) multiplied by the daily memory cost per gigabyte specified in the cost
profile associated with the compute resource on which the machine is provisioned
CPUs Number of allocated CPUs multiplied by the daily CPU cost specified in the cost profile
associated with the compute resource on which the machine is provisioned
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