When you upgrade to this version and later versions of VMware Aria Operations, and you have VMware Chargeback, you have the option to switch to VMware Aria Operations Chargeback and use all the capabilities from one place. This can be achieved through the migration process. The existing settings and configurations will migrate to VMware Aria Operations.

Steps to Migrate Chargeback Data to VMware Aria Operations

  1. From the VMware Chargeback UI, in the left menu, click Migration.
  2. From the Migration page, you will see the list of tasks to be migrated with the Start and End time. You can also view the status of each task that is being migrated. Click Initiate Migration.
    Note: Click on each task row to view information about the number of objects that have been migrated, the number of objects that have been ignored, the migrated resources, error messages if any, and so on.

List of tasks in Chargeback and their corresponding location in VMware Aria Operations

Table 1. Migration Details from Chargeback to VMware Aria Operations
Chargeback Migration Steps and Location in Chargeback Location in VMware Aria Operations
Initialization NA
Email Configuration

Admin Setting > Configure > Configure Email

Click Operations > Configurations, and then click the VCD Tenant Email Configuration tile.
Pricing Policies

Pricing > Configuration

Click Operations > Configurations, and then click the Policy Definition tile.

Pricing Policies Assignment

All pricing policies from Chargeback will be converted to separate policies under the default Policy in VMware Aria Operations. They will have the same name as they have in the Chargeback UI with the pricing card UUID added as a suffix. After migration Active Polices are the ones that have at least one object assignment in Chargeback.
Pricing Policies Assignment Migration
  • If there is just one active policy in VMware Aria Operations before migration, then all the policy assignments from Chargeback will be migrated to VMware Aria Operations accordingly.
  • If there is more than one active policy in VMware Aria Operations, then after migration, the policy assignment of Organization and Organization VDC objects should be done manually. In this scenario it is recommended to proceed with policy assignments immediately to ensure continuous pricing calculations.
Bill Schedules Bill schedules migration should be done manually. For more details about scheduling bills, see Scheduling Bill Generation Using Automation Central.
Notification Rules

Alerts > Tenant Alerts > Notification Rules

Click Operations > Configurations, and then click the VCD Tenant Notifications tile.
Report Schedules

Reports > Tenant Reports

Click Operations > Reports > Manage

Filter by VCD Tenants and then view the Schedules column to view the Scheduled reports.

Tenant Reports

Reports > Tenant Reports

Click Operations > Reports > Generated Reports

Filter by VCD Tenants and view the generated reports.

Generated Bills

Pricing > Bills

Click Cost > Bills
Bill Retention Settings

Admin Settings > Settings > Data Retention

Click Administration > Control Panel > Chargeback > Data Retention > Generated Bills.

Finalization

Admin Settings > Support > Self Health

Click Administration > Control Panel > Audit > Chargeback Migration Audit
  • Users created with the role of VCD Tenant Admin will be removed.
  • All VCD instances which had VMware Chargeback registered will now be switched to VMware Aria Operations.
    • Manual registration may be required in certain cases. These instances will be reported in the Finalization step summary.
  • VMware Aria Operations Chargeback capabilities will be activated.
  • A detailed report of migration can be found at Administration > Control Panel > Audit > Chargeback Migration Audit. For more details, see Chargeback Migration Audit.