We've had this requirement a few times before. In short, it goes against CS's concept of service offerings
Theres two approaches we've used: 1. create, in advance, service offerings of every permutation of memory/cpu/disk that you want to sell. Or 2. Use the API to generate new service offerings on the fly, when people spin up instances Whichever approach you use, doing this in the CS gui will be a lot of work, easiest thing is to create a provisioning site to do it via API, which is relatively simple In terms of usage/billing, you then just bill out against a service offering (its just you have lots of different ones) If you have a look at these guys: http://www.umbeehosting.co.uk/cloud-hosting/public-cloud-instances/ they are using approach (1) above Kind Regards Giles Giles Sirett Managing Consultant D: +44 20 3603 0541 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +44 796 111 2055 giles.sir...@shapeblue.com | www.shapeblue.com | Twitter:@shapeBlue ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS -----Original Message----- From: Shanker Balan [mailto:m...@shankerbalan.net] Sent: 05 October 2012 07:56 To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: How can I specify the vCPU and ram manually? On 04-Oct-2012, at 7:19 PM, sx chen <cloudchen0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Generally speaking,I want to deploy a private cloud,let the custom > decide the vCPU,ram and dist themselves. How would you meter and bill adhoc instance types created by customers? Just curious. Regards @shankerbalan ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
