Feature
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Benefit
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| Assign & Track Virtual Asset Costs in Real Time |
- Change the language from MHz and GHz to dollars. This occurs when consumers request services and initiate change requests that affect the cost of a service.
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| Cost Transparency & Showback or Chargeback |
- Provide end users with cost transparency and showback or chargeback, enabling archiving, placement and budgetary planning.
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| Report on Virtual Infrastructure Costs & Growth Trends |
- Provide ability to report on virtual infrastructure costs and growth trends.
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| Automated Report Generation |
- Deliver reports by email, Microsoft SharePoint, intranet, etc.
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| Virtual Sprawl Cost Report |
- Quantify the ROI of assessing sprawl found in a virtual environment.
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| Report Scheduling & Delivery |
- On-demand reporting or schedule delivery of reports by email, Microsoft SharePoint, intranet, etc.
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| Exporting Reports |
- Export data into other third-party systems.
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| Configure base costs, one-time costs, and fixed costs to create customized cost models for different infrastructures |
- Determine the economics of your data center and use this data to justify hypervisors and cloud costs.
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| Configurable Time Periods |
- Meter and calculate IT costs based on flexible time periods such as “business hours.”
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| International Currency Configuration |
- Define different cost metrics in different currencies for enterprise-wide cost visibility, showback or chargeback.
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| Self-service Portal Integration |
- Show costs to consumers at the time of request to curb excessive consumption and to remind them that virtual assets are not free.
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| Customizable Chargeback Hierarchy |
- Define and track how virtual assets are assigned and shared across your consumers; for example, business units, departments, customers, cost centers, etc.
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| Enterprise-wide Visibility & Management across multiple data centers and multiple hypervisors |
- Support multiple VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments from a single interface while assigning different cost models to the different hypervisors.
- Integration with VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
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| Integration with Third-party Systems |
- Push and pull information from Embotics vCommander™ through a web service.
- Provide the hooks in workflows to communicate with third-party systems.
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| Multi-hypervisor Support. For example, VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V |
- Support multiple VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments in a single interface while assigning different cost models to the different hypervisors.
- Integration with VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
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| Multi-tenant Cost Model |
- Provide cost visibility, showback and/or chargeback while specifying different costs for varying tenants, or charging more for disparate compute, storage and service offerings.
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