vCenter Chargeback for 1 processor
VMware vCenter Chargeback is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server and gives you the ability to build flexible cost models based on organizational units and existing structures within vCenter Server.
Chargeback Hierarchy Management
Easily associate VM's and costs to different departments, business units, and groups.
- Chargeback hierarchy. Map IT infrastructure to business structure for cost accounting purposes. Define how virtual machines and VMware ESX hosts are assigned to and shared by different departments, cost centers, or business units in an organization.
- Cost sharing. Associate costs to virtual infrastructure entities in the hierarchy. Share costs of a virtual machine across different business departments.
- Custom attributes. Specify custom attributes at any hierarchical level.
Cost Configuration
Define cost metrics related to virtual infrastructure resources.
- Cost templates. Simplify and standardize the process of adding costs for VM’s. Templates can be used to apply existing models quickly to expanding or new environments.
- Billing policies. Supports fixed costs, allocation-based costing, utilization-based costing, or a combination
- Cost accounting metrics. Allows for entry of cost accounting structures, base cost models, fixed costs, and multiple rates needed to calculate true costs.
- o Base rates. Define base rates associated with metered elements (e.g. CPU, memory, disk, disk I/O or network I/O)
- o Fixed costs. Add fixed costs to the hierarchy to account for non-compute attributes (e.g. software licenses, power/cooling, custom fixed costs)
- o Multiple rate factors / Rate multipliers. Account for use of higher-end storage or servers, or higher SLAs (e.g. DR or backup included, production vs. development systems).
- Currency selector. Define cost metrics in different currencies for enterprise-wide chargeback.
Data Collection
Monitor and measure costs associated with VM's.
- Automated utilization tracking. Built-in data collector collects usage and configuration data for computing chargeback costs.
- Temporal cost models. Track changing of cost parameters and policies with time.
- Chargeback database. Maintain a database of cost and usage metrics gathered from vCenter Server.
Cost Analysis and Reporting
Provide IT cost transparency with simplified billing and reporting.
- Cost reports. Generate reports containing cost and resource summaries over a specified period of time, or generate reports for comparing two different cost models.
- Customizable report templates. Customize header, footer, logo, title, etc. to fit company look-n-feel.
- Report delivery. Archive, schedule, email, and export reports (Word, PDF, CSV). Reports can also be delivered and viewed using a web browser.
- Enterprise-wide management across multiple vCenter Servers. Support for reporting across multiple vCenter Servers. Single chargeback hierarchy spans multiple vCenter Servers.
Management Interfaces
Monitor and manage vCenter Chargeback infrastructure.
- Integration with VMware vSphere Client. vCenter Chargeback is fully integrated as a vSphere Client plug-in, providing consistent look-n-feel and integrated capabilities for configuring costing model and viewing reports.
- Web interface. Allows for ease of administration and reporting, with delegated roles for reporting access.
- System health and troubleshooting. Monitor and troubleshoot the health of the vCenter Chargeback system through the built-in dashboard.
- Integration with Microsoft Active Directory. Base access controls on existing Microsoft Active Directory authentication mechanisms.
- Custom roles and permissions. Enhance security and flexibility with user-defined roles.
