Overview

For IT organizations that allocate costs to business units or wish to influence user behavior or gain insight into requirements based on use, designing and implementing a successful chargeback strategy is a significant component in the adoption of virtual infrastructure. How do you now measure consumption when you no longer have a dedicated physical server? How do you map utilization by virtual machine when VMotion® allows for movement from one physical server to another?

The VMware Chargeback Workshop is designed to provide an interactive knowledge sharing workshop on IT chargeback models, including presentation of industry best practices, special considerations relevant to virtual infrastructure, presentation of a set of chargeback tools and installation and configuration of a third party chargeback metering software.

Key Benefits

• Accelerate the design and deployment of your chargeback processes and solution for Virtual Infrastructure
• Gain financial flexibility and value from a virtual environment
• Validate feasibility of chargeback in a virtual environment with a proof-of-concept in your own environment

Deliverables

• Interactive workshop covering chargeback industry best
  practices and virtual infrastructure specific considerations
• Standard onsite installation of a third party chargeback
  metering tool leveraging ESX Server data collection features
• Configuration of chargeback solution and generation of sample
  chargeback reports
• Knowledge transfer and recommended next steps