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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 03:24:28PM +0000, Tim Bell wrote:
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:We’re having a look at VM shelving for the CERN community and struggling to find a motivation for a private cloud user to shelve their instances (and free up resources they may be only using infrequently).
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:The problem is that shelved instances seem to still be included in the user’s quota. Without internal billing, the best motivation for users to shelve would be to allow them to maximize the use of their quota.
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:Have any other sites used shelving extensively ? How did you motivate your users to shelve unused resources?


Hi Tim,

We've just started looking at this and for simialar reasons.  I agree
we should remove shelved resources from project quota. Shelved
instances do still hold some storage resources so there may need to be
new quota to accoutn for that some how...

Currently the only motivation for our users to shelve is to get me to
stop pestering them.

We're considering policy based enforced shelving (based on some yet to
be defined utilization metrics) but that's only a idea at this point
not a plan.

-Jon