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The Accounting menu option displays usage details of VM resources and the usage cost. You can view the resource accounting details and chargeback information for VMs.
You can view the resources usage of VMs that belong to a selected group. The resource usage is calculated on an hourly basis. You can view the Resource Accounting Details report by choosing Resource Accounting Details under Accounting.
The Resource Accounting Details report displays accounting information for all VMs, along with the following information:
Active and inactive period of the VMs
Usage of CPU
Memory space
Storage
Received network data
Transmitted network data
You can view additional resource accounting details about a VM by clicking the row with the VM ID and clicking View Details.
You can view the VM's resource usage details and its associated cost for a particular group. The cost is calculated based on the cost model that is associated with the vDC of the group. You can view the Chargeback report by choosing Chargeback under Accounting.
The resources details include the following:
Instance name
Resource type
Provisioned time
Active VM hours
Inactive VM hours
Average CPU usage
Average memory usage
Committed disk