Generating vCenter Chargeback report for an hour
Welcome to vCenter Chargeback forum. If you are a new user, and want to evaluate Chargeback - you need not wait for a full day or so to generate your first report. Please read through this post and generate a fully functional cost report within an hour of installation!
vCenter Chargeback ships with various billing period options using which the chargeback user can schedule and generate reports for Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half yearly & Yearly. Given this there is no "ready to use" option available to generate a report for an hour, but the user can generate a report for an hour using "custom" billing period option while scheduling the report.
Please refer the attached CustomBillingPeriod_1.jpg, where a report is scheduled to generate every day for the duration 09:15 AM to 10:15AM. In this picture, the input parameters highlighted in circle determines when the report generation needs to be triggered or fired. Whereas the input parameters inside the highlighted rectangle decides the report duration, which will be computed based on the firing time.
Attached image CustomBillingPeriod_2.jpg shows another "one hour" report for the day that is 15days before then the firing time.
I hope the above small tip helps.
Thanks & Regards
Diwakar