Managing And Configuring Vcenter Chargeback Cost Elements; Vcenter Chargeback Cost-Related Elements - VMware VCENTER CHARGEBACK 1.5 Manual

Managing and Configuring vCenter
Chargeback Cost Elements
vCenter Chargeback provides various cost-related elements. These elements enable you to define the cost to
be charged for each computing resource, fixed costs, and the cost calculation formula.
You must set the various cost-related elements in vCenter Chargeback to successfully generate the required
cost reports.
This chapter includes the following topics:

"vCenter Chargeback Cost-Related Elements,"

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"Managing Cost Models,"
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"Managing Fixed Costs,"
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"Managing Cost Templates,"
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"Managing Billing Policies,"
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"Configuring Cost at the Entity Level,"
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"Physical Infrastructure Costing,"
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vCenter Chargeback Cost-Related Elements
You must know about the vCenter Chargeback cost-related elements to effectively create and configure a cost
model.
vCenter Chargeback includes the following cost related elements.
Chargeable computing resource
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Base rate
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Rate factor
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Fixed cost
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Billing policy
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Cost model
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Cost template
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