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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
5 Modify the report summary details and click Next.
6 Specify the information to be included in the report and click Submit.
The modified automatic report scheduler is displayed on the page.
Delete Automatic Report Scheduler
You can delete unwanted report schedulers from the application
When you delete an automatic report scheduler, the report schedules created by the scheduler are automatically
deleted. You can also choose to delete the reports archived by the corresponding schedules. You must have
delete privilege on the automatic report scheduler.
Procedure
1 Click Automatic Report Scheduler on the Reports tab.
A list of automatic report schedulers created in the application is displayed.
2 Select the scheduler that you want to remove and click Delete.
The Delete Policy window is displayed.
3 (Optional) Select the option to delete the archived reports that were generated by the report schedules
created by the automatic report scheduler.
4 Click OK.
The report scheduler and the corresponding schedules are removed from the applications
Report Dashboard
vCenter Chargeback Manager provides a report dashboard that displays various graphs providing information
about the resource cost and usage for a selected hierarchy or entity for the last 30 days excluding the current
date.
The report dashboard displays three charts, Cost per Resource, Cost per child Entity, and Cost per Day, for
the selected hierarchy or entity. The dashboard also provides an option to view the following Top N reports:
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Top N most expensive VMs
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Top N least expensive VMs
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Top N CPU consuming VMs
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Top N Memory consuming VMs
Here, N can take the values 10, 20, and 50.
To fetch a Top N report, you must select the value for N, select the report type, and click Fetch. For each virtual
machine listed in the Top N report, you can view the Cost per Resource graph by clicking the virtual machine
name in the report.
For a hierarchy that includes a vCenter Server that is integrated with VMware vCenter Operations, the
dashboard provides the following details:
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The Cost per Resource bar chart in the Cost projection tab shows cost for each resource, which is color
coded, for the past 30 days and projected data for next three months in sets of 30 days each.
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The Cost per Day graph in the Cost projection tab charts the variance in the total cost for the entity for
the past 30 days and projected data for next three months.
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The Cost Optimization tab lists the following optimization opportunities: Oversized Virtual Machines,
Undersized Virtual Machines, Idle Virtual Machines, and Powered Off Virtual Machines.
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