A big thank you to all of you that shared your ideas. I really appreciate it.
David Juárez CDC eServer Systems Support (310B) IT Specialist - Systems Programmer 512-326-6116 Work -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 9:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cost accounting for Linux guest running under z/VM 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 >> >> > > -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
