Administrator Guide

Storage Center Chargeback

Configure Chargeback or Modify Chargeback

Settings

The Chargeback settings specify how to charge for storage consumption, how to assign base storage costs, and how to generate reports.

During the initial setup of Chargeback settings, the Default Department drop-down menu is empty because the departments do not

exist yet.

Steps

1. Click the Chargeback view.

2. Click Edit Chargeback Settings in the Actions pane. The Edit Chargeback Settings wizard appears.

Figure 73. Edit Chargeback Settings Wizard

3. Select whether to charge on the allocated space of a volume or the configured space of a volume:

• To charge based on the amount of space that a volume actually uses, select the Charge on Allocated Space check box.

• To charge based on the amount of space that each volume is configured to use, clear the Charge on Allocated Space check

box.

4. If the Charge on Allocated Space check box was selected in the previous step, select the Charge on Difference check box if you

want to configure Chargeback to charge based on the difference between the amount of space a volume currently uses and the

amount of space that a volume used during the last automated Chargeback run.

5. To add additional charges that are based on the number of snapshots that have been created for a volume, select the Charge for

Snapshots check box and enter the cost per snapshot in the Snapshot Cost field.

6. To charge a higher rate for volume data that uses Fast Track disk space, select the Charge Extra for Fast Track check box and

enter the percentage to increase the cost for volumes that use Fast Track disk space in the Fast Track Percent Increase field.

7. Select how to assign a base cost to storage from the Assign Cost By drop‐down.

• Global Disk Classes: Costs are assigned to each available disk class.

• Individual Storage Center Disk Tier: Costs are assigned per storage tier level for each Storage Center.

8. Select a location from the Currency Locale drop-down menu to specify the type currency to display in Chargeback.

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