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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe ARCAStream has a product that could facilitate this also. I also believe their engineers are on the list. </span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> Andrew Beattie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11/17/16, 3:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gpfsug-discuss] Is anyone performing any kind of Charge back / Show back on Scale today and how do you collect the data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div dir="ltr">I have a large managed services provider in Australia who are looking at the benefits of deploying Scale for a combination of Object storage and basic SMB file access. This data is typically historical data rather than highly accessed production
data and the proposed services is designed to be a low cost option - think a private version of Amazon's Glacier type offering. The proposed solution will have Platinum - Flash, Gold - SAS, Silver - NL-SAS and Bronze - Tape tiers with different cost's per
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<div dir="ltr">One of the questions that they have asked is, how can they on a regular basis (6-10min increments), poll the storage array to determine what capacity is stored in what tier of disk, by company / user, and export the results (ideally via an API)
into their Reporting and Billing system. They do something similar today for their VMWare farm (6 minute increments), to provide accountability for the number of virtual machines they are providing, and would like to extend this capability to their file storage
offering, which today is based on basic virtual windows file servers</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Is anyone doing something similar today? and if so at what granularity?</div>
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Andrew Beattie</div>
<div style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:sans-serif">Software Defined Storage - IT Specialist</div>
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<div><span style="font-weight:bold; color:#336699">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:abeattie@au1.ibm.com" style="color:#555">abeattie@au1.ibm.com</a></div>
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