On 26/01/15 15:45, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 01:40:06PM +0200, Lior Vernia wrote: >> Hello users and developers, >> >> Just put up a feature page for the aforementioned feature; in summary, >> to report total RX/TX statistics for hosts and VMs in oVirt. This has >> been requested several times on the users mailing list, and is >> especially useful for accounting in VDI deployments. >> >> You're more than welcome to review the feature page: >> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cumulative_RX_TX_Statistics > > Sorry for the late review; I have a couple of questions/comments. > - What do you mean by "VDI use cases" in the "Benefit to oVirt sanpshot" > section? > Do you refer to hosting services who would like to charge their > customers based on actual bandwidth usage?
Indeed, as well as monitoring utilisation by non-paying users (say inside the same organization). Changed the wording a little, as hosting services are really the prime candidate. > - I've added another motivation: currently-reported rxRate/txRate > can be utterly meaningless. > > > I don't see reference to nasty negative flows: what happens if a host > disappears? Or a VM? I suppose there's always a chance that some traffic > would go unaccounted for. But do you expect to extract this information > somehow? Either way, it should be mentioned as a caveat on the feature > page. > What do you mean by "disappears"? Engine loses connectivity to it? >> >> Note that this only deals with network usage - it'll be great if we have >> similar features for CPU and disk usage! > > There's a formal feature request about this: > Bug 1172153 - [RFE] Collect CPU, IO and network accounting > information > > Dan > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users