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Getting ready
Chargeback reporting leverages various components of System Center 2012 R2. These
components are as follows:
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager : This is used to create an ab-
straction layer between your hardware resources (fabric) and your end users. This
abstraction layer is called Clouds in VMM.
System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager : This is used to monitor the usage
and capacity of resources managed by VMM. These resources include your fabric,
virtual machines, and private clouds.
System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager : This is the central component that
holds all the data about your VMM clouds. You can define price sheets in Service
Manager and associate them with your clouds.
System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager Data Warehouse : This is used to cre-
ate and view Chargeback reports.
For Chargeback to work, you need to configure all of the preceding components in accord-
ance with the following instructions.
Virtual Machine Manager
Before you can start configuring Virtual Machine Manager to manage clouds, you must
have a Virtual Machine Manager Server installed, and this server must be managing at least
one Hyper-V host server. There should be a couple of virtual machines running in the en-
vironment managed by VMM.
For the integration between VMM and Operations Manager to work, you must install the
Operations Manager Console on the Virtual Machine Manager Server. You must also install
an Operations Manager Agent on the Virtual Machine Manager Server so that monitoring
data can be obtained from Operations Manager.
Once these requirements are met, you can start configuring Virtual Machine Manager to
manage clouds and configure the integration between Virtual Machine Manager and Opera-
tions Manager.
Creating clouds in VMM
The steps to create clouds involve administrative configuration in Virtual Machine Man-
ager. If you are running VMM in a production environment, you are likely to already have
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