vCenter Chargeback comprises, essentially, of two components:
- Chargeback Server
That’s the main component of the solution,
it hosts the web interface, which users will access it, provides reporting
capabilities, processing of model costs, etc..
- Chargeback Collector
That’s the component which collects the
data and send them to Chargeback server to does it’s magic. There are specific
collectors for vCloud, vCenter and vShield.
While you can install everything on the
same server, depending on the size of your environment you can decide to have
them spread out.
You might ask yourself, “Nice, but where do
I download the Chargeback collectors ? “
I have to admit, despite the fact
Chargeback Installation Guide is very clear about where to find it, I did not
find it smoothly.
Anyway, I though a visual indication would
help better.
On the Web Interface, click on Tools and
you will find:
-Download Data Collector (that’s is for
vCenter)
-Download VMware Cloud Director Data
Collector
-Download vShield Manager Data Collector
Next post we will talk about some
Chargeback sizing and design decisions
See you
