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

[Alex Chekholko]

On 11/17/2016 02:55 PM, Andrew Beattie wrote:
> 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
>  ...
>
> Is anyone doing something similar today? and if so at what granularity?

We put different customers into their own filesets, and we put hard 
quotas on the filesets and we charge by the allocated quota and not by 
the current "usage".  I.e. their quota is their "usage".

IIRC billing is monthy and quota adjustments are manual and infrequent, 
and I'm guessing the adjustments are pro-rated.

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Alex Chekholko chekh at stanford.edu