VMware VCENTER CHARGEBACK Manual de usuario

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AT A G L ANCE

VMware vCenter™ Chargeback enables accurate

cost measurement, analysis, and reporting of

virtual machines. With vCenter Chargeback, line-

of-business owners and IT teams can gain visibility

into the actual cost of the virtual infrastructure

required to support business services. vCenter

Chargeback provides the ability to map IT costs to

business units, cost centers, or external

customers—enabling a better understanding of

how much resources cost and what can be done

to optimize resource utilization. vCenter

Chargeback also allows organizations to support

policy-driven accountability for self-service

environments so that business owners can “pay as

they go” for IT resources.

K E Y B E N E F I T S

•Improveresourceutilizationbygainingaccurate

visibility into the true costs of virtualized

workloads.

•Enableline-of-businessownerstohavefull

transparency and accountability for self-service

resource requests.

•Modelinfrastructurecostsinaexiblewaythat

ﬁts organizational processes and policies.

VMware vCenter Chargeback

Gain Cost Visibility and Policy-Driven Accountability

How is vCenter

Chargeback Used?

VMware vCenter Chargeback enables administrators to deliver IT

as a service with a simple, ﬂexible, and accurate chargeback

model. Using vCenter Chargeback, administrators can:

•Create customized cost models and metrics to suit

organizational needs – Flexible cost models allow IT to

measure ﬁxed costs, allocated costs, actual utilization or a mix

of all three, tracking costs by business unit or group.

•Gain accurate visibility over virtualization costs – vCenter

Chargeback captures accurate cost metrics for virtual

environments, giving you insight in to the true costs of

provisioned systems. vCenter Chargeback takes into account

many dierent factors, ranging from hardware costs (CPU,

memory, storage, etc.) to additional elements such as power

and cooling.

•Enable the delivery of IT as a service – vCenter Chargeback

provides a charging foundation for enabling cloud computing.

Used in conjunction with a self-service catalog, business owners

can now have complete transparency into and accountability

for the services they are consuming.

How Does vCenter

Chargeback Work?

A Chargeback Hierarchy Makes it Easy to Manage

Chargeback Models

Administrators create a chargeback hierarchy that provides the

basis for determining cost structures and delivery of reports.

The hierarchy can span multiple vCenter Server instances for

organization-wide chargeback. Cost templates simplify and

standardize the process of adding costs for virtual machines to

the chargeback hierarchy. Any number of cost templates can be

created to support dierent cost structures across the organization.

VMware vCenter Chargeback accurately identiﬁes costs associated with virtual resources

and automatically ties those costs back to the business. Chargeback maintains a database

of cost and usage metrics gathered from vCenter Server, and integrates with VMware

vSphere™ Client to simplify cost conﬁguration.

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VMware vCenter Chargeback

Report Infrastructure Costs Accurately

vCenter Chargeback automatically creates detailed reports that

can be submitted to business units within an organization or used

by IT for decision-making and planning. This provides

organizations a clear view of resources consumed and their

associated costs, eliminating the perception that virtual machines

are “free.” vCenter Chargeback:

•Generatescostreportsthatcanprovidecomparisonofcost

models and resource usage for speciﬁed periods of time.

•Allowsforcustomizablereporttemplatesallowreportsthat

contain unique header, footer, logo, title, etc. to ﬁt company or

business unit brand standards.

•Reportsonthemostusedandmostexpensivevirtual

machines, allowing organizations to gain visibility into the

largest contributors to datacenter costs, which in turn makes it

easier to to drive and prioritize eciency eorts.

Drive Accountability in Cloud Environments

Administrators have a key building block for delivering IT as a

service. vCenter Chargeback:

•MeterresourcesmanagedinVMwarevCloudDirector,including

broadband network trac, public IP addresses, and other

servicessuchasDHCP,NAT,andrewalling.

•AutomatecreationofvCloudDirectorchargebackhierarchies

basedonvCloudDirectororganizationvirtualdatacenters

and vApps.

•SupportvCloudDirectorresourcemanagementmodelsand

enables pay-as-you-go, reservation pool, and allocation pool

charging for resources.

Find Out More

For information or to purchase VMware products,

call1-877-4-VMWARE(outsideofNorthAmerica

dial +1-650-427-5000), visit www.vmware.com/products,

or search online for an authorized reseller. For detailed product

speciﬁcations and systems requirements, please refer to the

VMware vCenter Server Chargeback documentation.

Multiple Cost Models Provide Flexibility in

Measuring Costs

vCenter Chargeback supports three dierent cost models:

 Fixedcost–speciﬁcpervirtualmachineinstancecosts

suchasﬂoorspacepowercoolingsoftwareor

administrativeoverhead

 Allocation-basedcosting–Variablecostspervirtual

machinebasedonallocatedresourcessuchastheamount

ofmemoryCPUorstorageallocatedorreservedforthe

virtualmachineinvCenterServer

 Utilization-basedcosting–Variablecostspervirtual

machinebasedonactualresourcesusedincludingaverage

memorydiskandCPUusagenetworkIOanddiskIO

Cost models can be combined in a cost template, making it easy

to start with a simple chargeback model and align with

organizational requirements.

Flexible Cost Accounting Allows Costs To Be

Captured Accurately

Administrators can deﬁne base rates associated with metered

elements(e.g.CPU,memory,disk,diskI/OornetworkI/O).Rate

multipliers can be applied to dierent costing models at run-time,

allowing IT organizations to account for use of higher-end

storageorservers,orhigherSLAs(e.g.DRorbackupincluded,

production vs. dev systems). Metered elements that are not

needed can also be easily disabled.

Key Features of

vCenter Chargeback

vCenter Chargeback allows administrators to gain visibility into

infrastructure costs and deliver IT as a service with a simple,

ﬂexible and accurate chargeback model.

Create Customizable Cost Models

Administrators can customize their chargeback model with unique

cost information and ﬂexible cost models. vCenter Chargeback:

•Supportsallocation-basedcosting,utilization-basedcosting,

or a combination of both to ﬁt an organizations unique costing

policies.

•Maintainsreusablecosttemplatesthatallowtheprocessof

adding cost models to VM’s to be standardized.

•Allowsforentryofbasecosts,xedcosts,one-timecosts,

multiple rate factors, and overage fees to model true costs.

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