Viewing chargeback by owner – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual
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Storage Essentials 5.00.01 User Guide 579
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Setting Up Asset-Based Chargeback Manager
Storage-Based Chargeback Manager
IMPORTANT:
The management server displays chargeback information up to the end of the
previous month. For example, assume you view chargeback information in the middle of February.
The calculations for chargeback would include the month of January, but not February.
To view chargeback by department:
1.
Access Chargeback Manager as described in ”
2.
Click the Departments tab in the right pane.
3.
Click the icon next corresponding to the element you want to view chargeback.
You are shown the following information:
• Department Name - Provided when the department was added.
• Department Number - Provided when the department was added.
• E-mail - May be blank if information was not provided.
• Phone - May be blank if information was not provided.
• Monthly Infrastructure Cost for Asset - How much it costs to operate the element on a
monthly basis.
• Ownership Cost - How much it costs the department in operating the element
• Total Asset-based Chargeback - How much it costs the department in operating the
element. This number is based on the following formula:
(Monthly Infrastructure cost) + ((Depreciation) x (Ownership %))
• Monthly Infrastructure Cost for Storage-based Chargeback - How much it costs for an
application to use a certain amount of storage.
• Total Storage-based Chargeback - How much it costs the department for an application to
use a certain amount of storage:
Monthly Infrastructure Cost + Ownership Cost
where Ownership Cost is (Ownership %) x (Storage Cost)
This page also displays two tables:
• Table for Asset-Based Chargeback lists the asset, depreciation, ownership percentage, and
ownership cost.
• Table for Storage-Based Chargeback lists the application, storage allotted, storage cost,
ownership %, and ownership cost. The storage allotted value includes mounted and
unmounted storage. Any volumes the application can access are included in the storage
calculations.
Viewing Chargeback by Owner
You can view Chargeback for all elements by using the Ownership tab. The Ownership tab shows
the ownership distribution across different departments and helps you with quickly identifying the
assets without a department owner.