CloudStack Collab Conference 2014

Organisations looking to build Cloud services on Apache CloudStack need to be able to either monetize their offerings and charge for usage or monitor and report on their Cloud's consumption.

Majority of such organisations already have existing billing or business support systems and do not require an integrated billing or reporting system, provided the usage data can be exported from CloudStack in a standard and structured format such as XML, JSON, or CSV.
CloudStack includes a Usage Server that creates summary usage records for the various resources consumed in CloudStack. Tariq will start with a review of how usage of such resources is metered in CloudStack and will then cover: · What usage metrics are recorded · Configuration of the Usage Server · Creation of the Usage Data · Explore various methods of accessing the Usage Data (API, CloudMonkey, SQL) · Overview of solution

The cloud is beginning to deliver on its promise of speed and flexibility. But what about cost savings? It’s easy to spin up servers and let them go, but that can lead to infrastructure cost creep. Enterprises today need greater visibility and management, to ensure IT and DevOPs can control infrastructure and gain insight on inefficiencies and financial managers can match infrastructure spend to their predefined accounting schema and report on it.
In this presentation, we will discuss how cloud management tools can help IT track the costs of each their cloud instances and roll this up to the level of a server farm and infrastructure for tracking. IT and Finance will learn how they can maintain accountability and keep costs under control, delivering on the promise of cloud cost savings.

Pierre Vacherand will present two use cases on CloudStack metering and billing with Amysta. The first use case will provide with infrastructure resources usage management & ChargeBack capabilities related to a Hybrid Enterprise Cloud. The second use case will explain a BSS (Business Support System) strategy for Service providers including, user provisioning, metering, rating, billing & payment.