HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide 653
IMPORTANT: The infrastructure cost is not included in ownership cost because the information
displayed on this page is per asset. The asset-based infrastructure cost is a monthly charge that is
applied to each departmental owner in addition to any ownership charges. The infrastructure cost is
not included when you view the chargeback for individual elements; however, the infrastructure cost
is added to the Total Cost/Month value in the Asset-based Chargeback report. It is also displayed
when you view chargeback per department. The infrastructure cost is added to each department,
regardless of whether the department owns one or 100 elements.
Setting Up Storage-Based Chargeback Manager
Storage-based Chargeback Manager calculates charges based on the actual amount of storage
used by an application on the storage system, the type of storage it is using and the ownership
percentage assigned to each department. The chargeback number is further refined by an
additional fixed infrastructure tax on a per department basis.
To obtain this storage-based chargeback, you must perform these tasks:
• Assign Departmental Ownership Percentage, as described in ”Step 1 - Assign Departmental
Ownership Percentage” on page 654.
• Review Storage Tier Cost, as described in ”Step 2 - Review Storage Tier Cost” on page 654.
• Review Storage Dependency and Cost, as described in ”Step 3 - Review Storage Dependency
and Cost” on page 655.
• Review storage-based chargeback result, as described in ”Step 4 - Review Storage-Based
Chargeback Result” on page 655.
Keep in mind the following:
• You must have already added your departments, as described in the topic, ”Adding
Departments” on page 648.
• Not all applications use storage on storage systems. Storage-based chargeback is applicable
only for those applications that use storage on storage systems.
• You must have access to the storage system the application uses. Verify that your organization
and roles allow you access. See ”About Security for the Management Server” on page 137 for
more information.
• Chargeback Manager provides only network capacity. If you look at the capacity of an
application in Capacity Manager, the capacity differs. Capacity Manager displays the total
capacity of an application, including the network drives. See the topic, ”How Capacity Differs in
Chargeback Manager and Capacity Manager” on page 656 for more information.
To provide information for storage-based Chargeback Manager:
1. Access Chargeback Manager.
2. Do one of the following:
• Click the icon corresponding to the element.
• Click the link for a host running an application in the right pane.
3. Click the Storage-based node under the Chargeback Manager node.