VMware VCENTER CHARGEBACK Datasheet

D A T A S H E E T
VMware vCenter Chargeback
Gain Cost Visibility and Policy-Driven Accountability
AT A G L A N C E
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 flexible way that
fits organizational processes and policies.
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.
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 different 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 different cost structures across the organization.
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