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Move Entities Within a Hierarchy
You can move the entities within a chargeback hierarchy. This is particularly useful if you want to rearrange
the entities within a chargeback hierarchy. You cannot, however, rearrange the entities that are under a vCenter
Server entity.
You must have the update privilege on the hierarchy, the chargeback hierarchical entity, and the current and
new parent chargeback hierarchical entity to move entities within a hierarchy.
Procedure
1 In the Manage Hierarchy tab, select the required chargeback hierarchy from the drop-down menu on the
left pane of the page.
The collapsed view of the chargeback hierarchy is displayed.
2 Expand the hierarchy by clicking the plus sign (+) to the left of the hierarchy name.
The first-level entities in the hierarchy are displayed. You can view all the entities in the hierarchy by
clicking the plus sign to the left of the entities that have sub-entities.
3 Right-click the entity that you want to move, and select Cut Entity from the pop-up menu.
N This menu option is available only for the vCenter Chargeback entities created in the hierarchy and
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the vCenter Server entities that are directly added to the hierarchy.
4 Right-click the destination entity and select Paste Entity from the pop-up menu.
The selected entity and all its child entities are moved under the destination entity. You cannot paste the
entities under a vCenter Server entity.
What to do next
You can undo a paste operation by right-clicking the pasted entity and selecting the Revert this paste
operation option. However, this option is not available on the entity if any further changes are made to the
entity or to the chargeback hierarchy.
Allocate Computing Resource Units for a Chargeback Entity
You can allocate some computing resource units for a chargeback entity. This allocation can be used to calculate
the cost when using an allocation-based billing policy.
Allocation of computing resource units is different from reservation of computing resource units. The
reservation of computing resources for a virtual machine is performed in vCenter Server. The allocation of
computing resource units is performed in vCenter Chargeback. An allocation of computing resource does not
imply that the chargeback entity will get to use the set amount of computing resource units at all times. This
allocation is used purely for calculating the cost when using an allocation-based billing policy.
You can set the allocation units, when you want to charge an entity for a fixed amount of computing resource
units, immaterial of the actual resource usage. For example, you want to charge a virtual machine for a
minimum of 2GHz of CPU and 4GB of RAM immaterial of the actual CPU and memory usage by the virtual
machine. In this case, you can set the allocation units for CPU and memory on the virtual machine, define an
allocation-based billing policy, and create a cost model with appropriate base rates for the computing resources
and set the allocation-based billing policy.
You must have read privilege on the hierarchy and update privilege on the chargeback hierarchical entity to
perform this task.
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Chapter 5 Managing Chargeback Hierarchies
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