It might be a good idea to have a "burst out" option. I.e., that once in a while the cap can be exceeded without triggering an extra charge. (My cell phone plan has this arrangement for one month after 6 months of staying within the limit.) This can enhance customer satisfaction while still restraining resource abusers.
--henry schaffer On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Agblad Tore <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank's, that sounds like a good idea. > Yes we have such tools, that is no problem. > > BR /Tore > > ________________________________________________ > Tore Agblad > zOpen Teamleader > IT Services > > Volvo Group Headquarters > Corporate Process & IT > Assar Gabrielssons väg 9 > SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden > E-mail: [email protected] > http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barton > Robinson > Sent: den 25 februari 2015 5:45 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anyone has experience on selling zLinux at fixed price? > > I've looked at the amazon and google chargeback models. One of their > options is a fixed price until some number of CPU hours is exceeded. > This allows the 'easy' fixed fee, but also controls the resource > abuser. You would have to have tools in place to alert the abuser that > they have gone beyond their allotted resource consumption. > > > On 2/23/2015 5:02 AM, James Vincent wrote: >> Hello! >> >> There are going to be a lot of ideas on how to do charging all the way from >> "we don't charge back" to "we charge by the micro-process". >> >> Fixed-price charging is good for very well contained zLinux servers. Using >> SHARE ABSOLUTE and even CPU POOLING can help with this. CPU POOLING is >> really good if you are thinking of mixing those fixed-resource servers with >> high-performance or "premium services" servers. There are pros and cons to >> fixed price charging. A pro is it is MUCH easier than any other kind of >> charging (other than no-cost!). A con is that some folks may think they >> are being charged too much if they really don't use it that much or that >> heavy, and some may not be thrilled being capped when they want to run >> something heavy for a short while. >> >> We use a variable rate based on consumption for most of our servers. We >> also have "lab" servers that are contained within SHARE ABS. We have >> processes to "cap" non-premium production servers when they get out of hand >> and the entire processor has been running in the high 90's for CPU. We use >> zVPS to collect all the data for the processor/LPARs and the zLinux servers >> to evaluate what they are up to every minute. Using that data, we are able >> to charge-back to the business units based on what they consume by >> process/application. There is a small base charge for just having a server, >> then the use of resources adds to it. This was all built over the last 10 >> years and we are still tuning it! >> >> Figuring out what your business will accept for charging is the hard part. >> Between the knobs in z/VM and performance monitoring/collecting tools >> available, you can make it work the way you need it. >> >> >> >> -- *James Vincent* >> -- President, SHARE Inc. >> -- Calendar: http://tinyurl.com/JSVCalWeek >> -- SHARE is an independent volunteer-run information technology association >> that provides *education*, professional *networking *and industry >> *influence* >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Agblad Tore <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This seems to be the biggest hinder for most people to start using Linux >>> on z. >>> Anyone having done this ? >>> There is a number of options to limit cpu and resources, SHARE and setting >>> max memory for example. Is this helping out here ? >>> >>> BR /Tore >>> >>> ________________________________________________ >>> Tore Agblad >>> zOpen Teamleader >>> IT Services >>> >>> Volvo Group Headquarters >>> Corporate Process & IT >>> Assar Gabrielssons väg 9 >>> SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden >>> E-mail: [email protected] >>> http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
