Chargeback

Cost Visibility and Chargeback

VKernel Chargeback is an easy–to–use tool that gives users immediate cost visibility and chargeback reporting for their virtualized infrastructure.

VKernel Chargeback enables you to:

• Continually measure the actual shared resource consumption (CPU, memory, storage, network) of each virtual machine (VM)
• Apply additional fixed costs (hardware, software, infrastructure) to fairly allocate costs back to departments
• Provide management reports as to who is using what resources and how much resource consumption actually costs
• Cost justify additional purchases by relating them directly to the business

Chargeback deploys in minutes and begins providing cost visibility reports in as little as one day. Simply calculate your resource costs (using our Chargeback calculator), define departments, and link them to the virtual machines (VMs) they use. That’s it! The Chargeback virtual appliance will now keep track of how your business units are using VMs and the resources they support.