Billing categories and license sets in UM 3.4 Beta

I have a hard time figuring out billing categories and license sets in UM. Please help
I'm running UM 3.4 Beta in my lab. The lab consists of two vCenter servers, vc01 and vc02. I have on ESXi host connected to vc01. This host is licensed with vSphere for desktop.
vc02 have five ESXi hots connected, they are all licensed with vSphere 5 Ent Plus. I've attached some screenshots of my UM.
Under billing Category in UM I set the vSphere for Desktop license to Perpetual and the Enterprise Plus license to VSPP.
I then created a License set named TEST where I only included the Enterprise Plus license.
Running a Customer Summary report without specifying a License set gives me a Billed vRAM (GB-Hours) of 14,734. Going back and choosing License set TEST
and running the same report gives me a Billed vRAM (GB-Hours) of 20,819.
Why is the second report reporting more billed vRAM then the first?

There are many causes for each of the errors mention. It would be best to put one issue to the forum at a time. For example, some of these issues occur then tasks are deleted from projects but a timesheet has been submitted. Depending
on the scenario, some of these issues have been fixed with the latest service pack.
Other issues are due to bad scheduling habits with the project managers and so first determining what they have done can help resolve some the issues.
_error Loading, is because something is NULL in the data and the jave is choking when it build the form. Again, these may be because of delete tasks, resources, projects or someone doing copying and pasting of rows.
cheers!
PS. Train your PM to not COPY and PASTE rows in project schedules. It can be done, but it can create problems. There are over 500 fields and some have unique data and the copy paste creates havic.
Michael Wharton, MVP, MBA, PMP, MCT, MCTS, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA
Website http://www.WhartonComputer.com
Blog http://MyProjectExpert.com contains my field notes and SQL queries

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Justin
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There are many causes for each of the errors mention. It would be best to put one issue to the forum at a time. For example, some of these issues occur then tasks are deleted from projects but a timesheet has been submitted. Depending
on the scenario, some of these issues have been fixed with the latest service pack.
Other issues are due to bad scheduling habits with the project managers and so first determining what they have done can help resolve some the issues.
_error Loading, is because something is NULL in the data and the jave is choking when it build the form. Again, these may be because of delete tasks, resources, projects or someone doing copying and pasting of rows.
cheers!
PS. Train your PM to not COPY and PASTE rows in project schedules. It can be done, but it can create problems. There are over 500 fields and some have unique data and the copy paste creates havic.
Michael Wharton, MVP, MBA, PMP, MCT, MCTS, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA
Website http://www.WhartonComputer.com
Blog http://MyProjectExpert.com contains my field notes and SQL queries

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