[gpfsug-discuss] Is anyone performing any kind of Charge back / Show back on Scale today and how do you collect the data

[Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]]

I believe ARCAStream has a product that could facilitate this also. I also believe their engineers are on the list.



From: Andrew Beattie
Sent: 11/17/16, 3:56 PM
To: gpfsug main discussion list
Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Is anyone performing any kind of Charge back / Show back on Scale today and how do you collect the data
Good Morning,


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 Tier

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

Is anyone doing something similar today? and if so at what granularity?

Andrew Beattie
Software Defined Storage  - IT Specialist
Phone: 614-2133-7927
E-mail: abeattie at au1.ibm.com<mailto:abeattie at au1.ibm.com>

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