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edawg
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Inventory/Tracking

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

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weinstein5
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have you looked at some of the other chargeback products like Quest's - http://www.quest.com/landing/?ID=7936&gclid=CL6X2uf2u7cCFe9cMgodq3IAcA

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edawg
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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

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jrmunday
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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

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