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Provide the required certificate information and press Enter.
You are prompted to enter the some information to be included in the generated SSL certificate.
Option
Description
Country Code
A two letter code for the country.
State or Province Name
Name of the state or province.
Locality Name
Name of the city or town.
Organization Name
Name of the organization.
Common Name
Your name.
Email Address
An email address.
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Provide the requested extra attributes for the certificate and press Enter.
Option
Description
A challenge password
A user-defined password
An optional company name
Company name. This is optional and can be left blank
5
Provide the pass phrase and press Enter.
You are prompted to enter the pass phrase again. Provide the same pass phrase and press Enter.
The SSL certificate is generated with the information provided.
6
Press any key to complete the process and close the window.
The generated SSL certificate can be seen when you access the application.
Create a vCenter Chargeback Cluster
Apart from installing standalone vCenter Chargeback instances, you can also create a cluster of vCenter
Chargeback instances. A cluster has more than one vCenter Chargeback instance accessing the same vCenter
Chargeback database.
Cluster Installation
When you install the vCenter Chargeback application for the first time on a machine, a load balancer is also
installed. The existence of the load balancer enables you to have more than one instance of the vCenter
Chargeback application running, with each instance accessing the same vCenter Chargeback database.
These vCenter Chargeback instances form a cluster. All user requests are routed through the load balancer.
Also, all the instances in the cluster share the same administrative account information. However, you must
ensure that each instance of vCenter Chargeback in the cluster is of the same version.
The load balancer ensures that no single vCenter Chargeback instance is loaded disproportionately with user
requests. Also, if one of the instances fails, any request currently being serviced by that instance is automatically
redirected to another instance in the cluster. For the failover to happen successfully, you must ensure the
following:
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All the vCenter Chargeback instances in the cluster, the vCenter Chargeback database, and the data
collectors have the same system time. That is, the system times are in sync.
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All the vCenter Chargeback instances in the cluster are in the same network domain.
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Multicasting must be enabled on the machine on which the vCenter Chargeback instance is installed.
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