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Technical Note: Using VMware vCenter Chargeback

Manager with VMware vCloud Director

Assigning roles to users (e.g., organization administrator) for a resource (e.g., organization)

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existing hierarchy visible to the user, assign the hierarchy manager role to the hierarchy.

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Assigning a role (other than the supervisor user role) deﬁnes the actions that the user can perform on the

application but does not provide access to the existing resources. To access the existing resources, apply roles

to each resource explicitly.

Availability

What happens if access is lost to components in the vCloud environment?

vCenter Server scenarios

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but is present in vCenter Chargeback Manager, the vCenter Server is not used by vCloud Director data

collector anymore in vCenter Chargeback Manager. If there are any unprocessed events from the removed

vCenter Server, they are not processed.

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machines are not added in vCenter Chargeback Manager until the vCenter Server has been recovered. Keep track

of the conﬁgurable property Unprocessed VMware vCloud Director chargeback event lifetime (in seconds).

If vCenter Server is recovered after the above-speciﬁed value, some events are ﬂushed out before they

are processed. Virtual machines from the inaccessible vCenter Server might not be added to vCenter

Chargeback Manager.

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cause issues with Pay As You Go allocation model reporting. The absence of virtual machine data results in

inaccurate reports.

vCloud Director scenarios

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Manager tries to reconnect. The retry interval/count (stops retrying after a certain number of attempts)

is conﬁgurable.

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database, the current job cycle fails immediately and the vCloud Director data collector tries to read the events

in the next scheduled cycle.

vCenter Chargeback Manager scenarios

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the events, all the events in the current cycle are reprocessed in the next cycle.

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the events, the whole cycle is repeated again.

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