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In the transition to private cloud computing, Chargeback is becoming one key property that differentiates a highly virtualized environment from one that offers a true private cloud. Whether you plan to formally bill folks for their usage of the environment or simply perform some kind of “showback” or “shadow billing” (how…
This subject may be akin to beating a mostly dead horse, but I know people still struggling with situations that can be solved with tools that can calculate showback. The Scenario So, let's assume you are an IT person with, shockingly, little to no budget for non-planned expansion. Suddenly, a wild resource hog appears!…
Hello, I see that the Showback dashboard can show us a widget such like "VM CPU Utilization VMware folder." But since the "folder" feature is specific to VMware, such the widgets are useless for Hyper-V. The Showback dashboard/widgets should support the Hyper-V too. I do not yet have any idea which can be used in Hyper-V…
I am new to the product and want to go for try out. So my question is: do I need to install agents on all SAN attached servers to be able to do chargeback/showback as well storage monitoring or just install several VMs, deploy agents on them and collect data from my storage using SMI-S. I am a little bit hesitant to deploy…
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