[ovirt-users] Billing solution

[Nikos Zaharioudakis]

Apologies for my delay gents.

I am hooked up in a customer project.
Would you be so nice to provide me with the relevant link.

I promise to do it tonight.

Thanks a lot,

Nikos

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2014-11-25 12:06 GMT+02:00 Shirly Radco <sradco at redhat.com>:

> Hi Nikos,
>
> Did you open a bug for this issue?
>
> Best regards,
> ---
> Shirly Radco
> BI Software Engineer
> Red Hat Israel Ltd.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nikos Zaharioudakis" <nzahar at gmail.com>
> > To: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Shirly Radco" <sradco at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:36:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Billing solution
> >
> > Hi Dan (et all),
> >
> > you know that the customers are always unsatisfied....:-(
> >
> > The first important stuff would be to have in place the metrics of
> > consumption of the
> > resources some hoster "sell" to a customer. So usage metrics on
> > CPU / RAM /  DISK / Network (over provisioned or not is another story)
> > There is an aspect on actual usage versus provisioned usage.
> > {vm provisioned 10 GB of RAM bus os+app uses just 5 GB of them etc)
> > But let's keep it simple.
> >
> > Should we have the usage reference then a GUI that the can define
> > the cost plans, would be ideal. A way to query if possible that
> > database, would ease existing ERPs and invoicing software to
> > produce / send invoices. This is for mostly post paid use cases.
> >
> > For prepaid situations, there must be some regular accounting that
> > will stop the service through our current API. It sounds a bit scaring to
> > actually shutdown the provisioned vm. So at least on first step stop the
> > networking ....
> > I guess that the base is to create a separate database that will keep the
> > consumed metrics, so that customers could actually use it to
> > enforce some business logic. (as explained above).
> > Should there be a minimal gui that could a small hoster create
> > his owns plans and perhaps issue some "invoice" would be ideal.
> > Since there are a number of open source billing systems out there,
> > perhaps the integration is not that complicated. A second thought would
> > be to extend the data ware house gui to create the "invoice" outputs
> > as most of the usage info is there.
> > I know that ovirt is supposed to be a virtualization solution and not
> > a full monty billing system.
> >
> > Thanks for reading so far.
> >
> > Nikos
> >
> >
> > Nikos
> >
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> > Zaharioudakis Nikos, RHC{A,DS,E,VA,X,I}, VCP(4,5},VCI, Mentor VCI, Zimbra
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> >
> > 2014-11-20 15:08 GMT+02:00 Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com>:
> >
> > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:20:46PM +0200, Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote:
> > > > Brilliant,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the info gents
> > > > Looking forward for 3.6 then :-)
> > >
> > > Just waiting may not be enough: I'd love to understand what are the
> > > metrics you'd like to use for billing.
> > >
> > > I mentioned cummulative values of network, storage, and cpu per VM. Can
> > > you consider anything else? The latter two are begging for an RFE to be
> > > open, as well as the report-centric RFE requested by Shirly.
> > >
> >
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