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What is Chargeback?

Chargeback is a mechanism to account for the operational costs involved in providing and maintaining an IT infrastructure, including the costs for IT services and applications.

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There are three main parts of this process:

Managing the chargeback hierarchy, Managing and configuring costs, and Generating reports

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Source: VMware

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Features

Fixed, allocation, and utilization based costing

Charge different amounts for tiers of infrastructure

Schedule reports & email results

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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 VMware 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.

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