The latest version of Virtualization Manager (VMAN) 2020.2.1 is now available in your customer portal.
This is a fully tested and supported version of the product and you can upgrade current production servers, while retaining your complete configuration and history.
If you're looking for release notes and other supporting documentation, please click the links below:
VMAN 2020.2.1 release notes
VMAN 2020.2.1 system requirements
Orion Platform 2020.2.1 release notes
Orion Platform 2020.2.1 release summary
What's new?
Chargeback
This feature began it's life on the legacy VMAN appliance. Customers have frequently requested that it be ported over to Orion based VMAN and now it's here! The basic idea of chargeback is very simple. Assign a cost to a metric being gathered and then apply that cost over a given time frame. There are many reasons a virtual admin may want to do this, such as:
- Providing a bill to an external customer
- Demonstrating true cost of VMs being consumed by different business units
- Making a case to management for additional investment in virtual environment
- Benchmarking current on-premises costs to compare the potential cost of the same workload in the cloud
This first version of chargeback in VMAN on Orion is almost an exact copy of the feature as it existed on the appliance so if you used the feature previously it should be very familiar to you. There are some screenshots below to visually guide you through the process but it is pretty simple to do. Give the report a name and a description first. Next decide if you want to summarize by host or cluster. Then choose one of the pre-defined time frames that you want to use for calculation. Then enter in your cost for each of the respective resources (keep in mind that CPU, Memory and Storage cost will be based on average usage and vCPU is a per unit configured cost) and finally click "Create".
Once you have a report created it should be listed in the report inventory. You can either download or delete a specific report or you can also multi-select reports as well. In the current release the reports are downloaded directly to your browser / PC in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Your Feedback Counts!
I'm incredibly interested in your feedback! Your feedback shapes our products. Post your thoughts, questions and concerns into the VMAN forum and the VMAN team will be watching for input to make the product better and better. In addition, if you come up with a brand new feature idea that we should consider for a future version, the best place to capture those ideas would be VMAN Feature Requests and as you can see from our What We’re Working on for VMAN page, we take those inputs very seriously.
