Integration [694] - Executive Scorecard import Infrastructure Usage and Costs data from vCenter Charge Manager (XS <- vCenter Charge Manager)

  • Document ID:KM01696243
  • Creation Date:11-Jun-2018
  • Modified Date:11-Jun-2018
    • Micro Focus Products:
      it business analytics

Summary

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Executive Scorecard import Infrastructure Usage and Costs data from vCenter Charge Manager (XS <- vCenter Charge Manager) - Catalog Id: 694
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  • [694] Executive Scorecard import Infrastructure Usage and Costs data from vCenter Charge Manager (XS <- vCenter Charge Manager)

Description

vCenter Chargeback Manager (VCM) is a key component of VMWare private cloud solution. It's a centralized platform that provides virtual machine in a flexible and scalable way. You can use VCM, an end-to-end cost reporting solution for virtual environments using vSphere. vCenter Chargeback Manager can also be used with VMware vCloud Director. The integration with VCM provides cost and usage reports based on the VCM data model.

This out-of-the-box data integration imports vCenter Charge Manager data into Executive Scorecard. The data is then combined with other data sources, transformed, analyzed, and loaded as metrics on a series of Executive Scorecard tabs.  

The vCenter Charge Manager data includes Infrastructure Usage and Costs data.

 

 

 

The section below lists the KPIs that display the data extracted from the data source and provide a description of the KPIs and the business motivation for each KPI.

Amount of Used Storage Metric

  • Business Questions: -
  • Business Objective: -
  • Description: The number of TBs of storage we are currently using.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS ,VCM, HPV

Incoming Network Traffic Metric

  • Business Questions: -
  • Business Objective: -
  • Description: Network download.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS ,VCM, HPV

IT Service Cost KPI

  • Business Questions: Track the cost of IT services and make sure it is aligned with the predicted expenses.
  • Business Objective: Increase Service Profitability
  • Description: The average cost of services provided by IT.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS, CSA, VCM, HPV

Network Traffic Metric

  • Business Questions: -
  • Business Objective: -
  • Description: The total network traffic.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS ,VCM, HPV

Number of Used Instances Metric

  • Business Questions: Increase Service Profitability
  • Business Objective: -
  • Description: The number of dedicated instances running in our hybrid cloud environment.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS ,VCM, HPV

Outgoing Network Traffic Metric

  • Business Questions: -
  • Business Objective: -
  • Description: Network upload
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS ,VCM, HPV

Public vs Private Cloud Spending KPI

  • Business Questions: Make sure the balance between private and public spending comply with our organization policies.
  • Business Objective: Optimize Resource Provider Relationship
  • Description: The ratio between the public and the private spending.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS, CSA, VCM, HPV

Resource Provider Cost KPI

  • Business Questions: Make sure our resource provider spending is within the planned budget.
  • Business Objective: Optimize Vendor Relationship
  • Description: The average monthly cost of our resource providers.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS, CSA, VCM, HPV

Service Profit Margin KPI

  • Business Questions: Track the profit margin for our IT services and make sure it is aligned with the predicted margin.
  • Business Objective: Increase Service Profitability
  • Description: The profit margin of the services provided by IT.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS, CSA, VCM, HPV

Service Profit Margin by Organization Metric

  • Business Questions: -
  • Business Objective: -
  • Description: The average service profit margin of our internal or external consumers.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS, CSA, VCM, HPV

Total Cost of Resource Providers KPI

  • Business Questions: Make sure our vendors spend within the planned budget.
  • Business Objective: Optimize Resource Provider Relationship
  • Description: The total monthly cost of Cloud vendors.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS, CSA, VCM, HPV

Total IT Service Cost KPI

  • Business Questions: Track the cost of IT services and make sure it is aligned with the predicted expenses
  • Business Objective: Increase Service Profitability
  • Description: The total cost of services provided by IT.
  • Context: CloudOptimization
  • Data Source: AWS, CSA, VCM, HPV

 

General

Leading Product:
IT Business Analytics


Secondary Product:
VMware vCenter Charge Manager

4/14/2018

Documentation

Content Reference Guides zip file can be found using the following link, Please unpack the zip and take the relevant Content Reference Guide:

http://support.microfocus.com/kb/kmdoc.php?id=KM01010240/binary/XS_9.50_ContentReferenceGuides.html

 
 

 

Support Matrix

VMware vCenter Charge Manager
IT Business Analytics
SupportedSupported (see comments)Not Supported

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