My IBM management, 25 years ago, went by the same idea that all users
should pay a fixed fee. I finally convinced them that your way, i.e. a
smaller fixed fee and then incremental charges made sense. I used the
analogy of a hotel. When you walk into a Holiday Inn, you know that
there is some kind of base rate, but when you ask for an extra bed or a
corner bedroom or room service, you are charged an extra fee. 25 years
ago, the situation was kind of similar to running a Linux guest. Most
of the users were PROFS users, but we also supported IBM instructors who
needed to bring up an MVS guest to prepare for a class. There was no
good reason to charge user A opening a PROFS note and user B running a
guest MVS and calling them the same. Writing the accounting code to
handle the accounting records is no small task. I did it in the '80's
and would share it except that that was 2 jobs ago and I almost
certainly didn't keep any of it to share.
Jim
Thomas Kern wrote:
All of our current chargeback is a fixed fee based on platform (z being t=
he
most expensive) and diskspace and number of users, just as if it were
another windows box they had to buy.=20
If I had my way, there would be a smaller fixed fee for setup based on
memory size, initial DASD and initial user definitions. After that, there=
would be monthly bills based on CPU utilization, memory definition change=
s
(increase or decrease), DASD occupancy and network traffic.=20
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:02:05 -0500, Juarez, David T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
We are in the process of getting ready to add production Linux guest and=
we
need to know how you are charging back the customer for running Linux und=
er
z/VM. We currently charge a fixed fee per month for small, medium and lar=
ge
based on the size of the individual server's memory, cpu, and network
connections. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
=20
David Ju=E1rez
Department of Veterans Affairs
IT Specialist - z/OS and z/VM Systems Programmer
512-326-6116
=20
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Jim Bohnsack
Cornell University
(972) 596-6377 home/office
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