[Openstack] [Metering] schema and counter definitions

Tomasz Paszkowski ss7pro at gmail.com
Wed May 9 16:42:33 UTC 2012


Here is the simplified version of my code (without ampq support,
counter stored directly to mysql db).

https://github.com/ss7pro/rescnt

Code is started from main.py which is constantly collecting counters
from libvirt and storing them in a mysql database.


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Tomasz Paszkowski <ss7pro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Loic Dachary <loic at enovance.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tomasz,
> Hi
>
>>
>> I could not agree more and this is the reason why I/O shows in the list of meters shown in http://wiki.openstack.org/EfficientMetering (c5) "disk IO in megabyte per second has a high impact on the service availability and could be billed separately ".
>
> Yes but for disk drives I/O (number of read/write ops) are the key
> resource usage information. It's very hard to setup a billing model
> for disk drive usage on bandwidth as low bandwidth disk operations
> (small random read/writes) can utilize disk drive more than huge
> sequential reads/writes. I need also to mention that AWS is also
> charging for I/O in their volume service.
>
>>
>>
>> It looks like you already have a codebase that could be useful for the metering implementation. Would you be willing to share it ?
>
> Yes. Just give me few days.
>
> --
> Tomasz Paszkowski
> SS7, Asterisk, SAN, Datacenter, Cloud Computing
> +48500166299



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Tomasz Paszkowski
SS7, Asterisk, SAN, Datacenter, Cloud Computing
+48500166299




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