IMPORTANT: The infrastructure cost is not included in ownership cost because the information displayed on this page is per asset. The asset-based infrastructure cost is a monthly charge that is applied to each departmental owner in addition to any ownership charges. The infrastructure cost is not included when you view the chargeback for individual elements; however, the infrastructure cost is added to the Total Cost/Month value in the Asset-based Chargeback report. It is also displayed when you view chargeback per department. The infrastructure cost is added to each department, regardless of whether the department owns one or 100 elements.

Setting Up Storage-Based Chargeback Manager

Storage-based Chargeback Manager calculates charges based on the actual amount of storage used by an application on the storage system, the type of storage it is using and the ownership percentage assigned to each department. The chargeback number is further refined by an additional fixed infrastructure tax on a per department basis.

To obtain this storage-based chargeback, you must perform these tasks:

•Assign Departmental Ownership Percentage, as described in ”Step 1 - Assign Departmental Ownership Percentage” on page 654.

•Review Storage Tier Cost, as described in ”Step 2 - Review Storage Tier Cost” on page 654.

•Review Storage Dependency and Cost, as described in ”Step 3 - Review Storage Dependency and Cost” on page 655.

•Review storage-based chargeback result, as described in ”Step 4 - Review Storage-Based Chargeback Result” on page 655.

Keep in mind the following:

•You must have already added your departments, as described in the topic, ”Adding Departments” on page 648.

•Not all applications use storage on storage systems. Storage-based chargeback is applicable only for those applications that use storage on storage systems.

•You must have access to the storage system the application uses. Verify that your organization and roles allow you access. See ”About Security for the Management Server” on page 137 for more information.

•Chargeback Manager provides only network capacity. If you look at the capacity of an application in Capacity Manager, the capacity differs. Capacity Manager displays the total capacity of an application, including the network drives. See the topic, ”How Capacity Differs in Chargeback Manager and Capacity Manager” on page 656 for more information.

To provide information for storage-based Chargeback Manager:

1.Access Chargeback Manager.

2.Do one of the following:

•Click the icon corresponding to the element.

•Click the link for a host running an application in the right pane.

3.Click the Storage-based node under the Chargeback Manager node.

HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide 653