Hello-
I manage about 500 vms spread out between a few different clusters. For billing purposes we charge customers based on a formula of assigned vRAM, vCPU and storage= monthly fee for your vm. Every year I end up having to export my vm list into an excel spread sheet and assign the correct monthly charge to each vm based on the above formula. I then send this list up to finance. Manual process is driving me crazy. I have looked at vm chargeback but don't like the complexity of the product for what I am trying to achieve. Basically just want a single repository of my vms that I can add personal info to like what department owns it, chargeback codes to use for billing and monthly costs. From this single repository I want to be able to export the data and send it to finance. Looking to get away from spreadsheets on a network share. Any thoughts? I was hoping there would be an easy to use appliance I could download, but haven't found it.
Thanks,
Erik
have you looked at some of the other chargeback products like Quest's - http://www.quest.com/landing/?ID=7936&gclid=CL6X2uf2u7cCFe9cMgodq3IAcA
No, I have not. For performance tracking I am using vKernel and also looking at VMware's vCops products and between the two they are fine. I will check out the demo..thanks
Hi Erik,
Perhaps you could store this data in vCenter and write a simple script to automate this for you - see example data;
Work Smart, not Hard – Automate Custom Attributes
The script could even send the report directly to Finance (via email).
Cheers,
Jon