When you install vCenter Chargeback Manager, a load balancer and a data collector is also installed and run
on the same machine. Although the vCenter Chargeback Manager database can also be installed on the same
machine, in a real-world scenario you would install the application and the database on separate machines.
vCenter Chargeback Manager retrieves the virtual infrastructure inventory and the resource usage information
for each virtual machine from the vCenter Server database through the data collector. The data collector
replicates this information in the vCenter Chargeback Manager database. vCenter Chargeback Manager uses
this information from the vCenter Chargeback Manager database along with the cost model and chargeback
cost calculation formulas to generate the cost reports. A single data collector instance can communicate with
multiple vCenter Server instances and vCenter Server databases and replicate the relevant information in a
vCenter Chargeback Manager database.
vCenter Chargeback Manager also lets you create a cluster of vCenter Chargeback Manager instances that
share a single load balancer. Each user request is routed through the load balancer. The load balancer forwards
the request to a vCenter Chargeback Manager instance in the cluster, while ensuring session affinity for an
instance, based on the number of requests currently being serviced by each instance in the cluster. All the
vCenter Chargeback Manager instances in a cluster are connected to the same vCenter Chargeback Manager
database.
If you have a VMWare vCloud Director setup, you can install the vCloud Director Data Collector and configure
it appropriately so that the vCloud Director setup can be integrated with vCenter Chargeback Manager. You
can then generate various reports of the organizations classified under the different categories, such as Pay-
As-You-Go, Reservation, and Allocation Pool.
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