We are excited to announce the general availability of VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 today, which includes new billing policies, a set of vCenter Chargeback APIs, and a number of other high impact features. You can download vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 from
What's New in vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1?
vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 provides the following new features:
Support for Windows Authentication
This release of vCenter Chargeback supports Windows Authentication for SQL Server databases. If you are using SQL Server for the vCenter Chargeback database or for the vCenter Server database, then you can configure the application to use Windows Authentication instead of SQL Authentication.
New computing resource and billing policies added
This release of vCenter Chargeback introduces a new computing resource, vCPU, and two new billing policies, vCPU Count and Memory Size and Fixed Cost and vCPU Count and Memory Size. These policies enable you to calculate cost based on the number of virtual CPUs and the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machines.
Resource Summary section lists rolled-up usage data for all entities
The Resource Summary section of the chargeback reports show the rolled-up usage data for all the entities.
Global fixed cost history is retained
This release of vCenter Chargeback lets you to set different cost values for different time periods on the same global fixed cost. The old values are retained and not overwritten.
Ability to undo to the most recent operation on the chargeback hierarchy
The most recent operation on the chargeback hierarchy can be undone. This undo feature is available for entities that are added or moved in the hierarchy. The undo option is not available for rename and delete operations.
Ability to use the vCenter Chargeback APIs
vCenter Chargeback APIs provide an interface to programmatically use the various features of vCenter Chargeback. As an application developer, you can use these APIs to build chargeback applications or integrate vCenter Chargeback with your internal billing systems and compliance policies. Please do note that the APIs released with this version of vCenter Chargeback are only for a technical preview.
For more information on product features or to try the product yourself, please visit:
If you're looking to develop a chargeback application or integrate vCenter Chargeback with your internal billing systems, please join us on Wed Nov 4th, 9 am PST for a VMware Coffee Talk on vCenter Chargeback APIs, with technical discussions and Q&A led by the vCenter Chargeback R&D team.
We hope you enjoy this latest release!
