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Technical Note: Using VMware vCenter Chargeback

Manager with VMware vCloud Director

Integration with External Systems

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TASK NAME DESCRIPTION RESULT APIs USED

Initial Setup Conﬁgure the vCenter Chargeback Manager

server and the vCloud Director connection

information inside the internal billing system.

All the components

are able to talk to

each other.

None



Account



account from the self-service portal.

The self-service portal creates a vCloud

organization and user inside the

organization.

The self-service portal provisions the

infrastructure as a service (IaaS) inside

vCloud Director.



the billing system, which creates a billing

account.

The billing system updates a mapping of the

billing account to the organization.

The customer can

account and use the

provisioned service.

vCloud





Create a New



vCenter Chargeback

Manager

The vCloud Director data collector performs

this task automatically.

The vCloud

organization and the

services provisioned

are reﬂected inside

vCenter Chargeback

Manager.

N/A

Schedule a Cost

Report

A cost report for the newly created hierarchy

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the customer’s billing cycle.

A report schedule is

created inside

vCenter Chargeback

Manager.

Automated

vCenter

Chargeback

Manager report





XML

The billing system searches the vCenter

Chargeback Manager report archive and

exports the appropriate reports in XML

format.

Cost reports are

now available in the

billing system.

vCenter

Chargeback

Manager search



 vCenter

Chargeback

Manager report





Invoice

The billing system generates the invoice for

each customer on the billing anniversary.

Customers receive

invoices.

N/A

 The billing system handles payments against

invoices.



processed.

N/A

Table 4. Integration Task Flows

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