This really sounds to me like a project, not a community.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Isaac R. wrote:
>
> This is a draft proposal to create a new OpenSolaris community focusing
> on the subject of Chargeback.
> It would thus be entitled "Chargeback".
>
> The scope of the community would be to foster collaboration and funnel
> efforts into creation of
> tools, processes and operational procedures for enabling IT
> organizations in their attempts
> at getting fact-based utilization data of their Solaris servers.
>
> Though various facilities exist in Solaris (and have existed as
> previously purchaseable commercial products),
> there has always been a gap in terms of presenting gathered data in an
> executive-style reporting
> framework.
>
> I had written a tool that did this for Solaris 7 and Solaris 8,
> leveraging data provided through
> the Fair Share Scheduler (SHR) made available by an add-on product
> (Solaris Resource Manager). While I am in the process of porting the
> tool to take advantage of Solaris 10 Zones, I realize there
> are people out there re-inventing the wheel and building their own
> toolsets. Such would be the
> desired participants in this community.
> With respect to code contributions and software projects, it is my
> sincere hope that as code gets
> shared we can kick off an OpenSolaris "Chargeback" project that would
> essentially provide tools
> that would allow customers to answer the question of cost analysis from
> the Operating System point of view.
>
> Clearly, Chargeback has to take into account real-estate costs,
> electricity costs, general datacenter costs,
> "man hours", SysAdmin hours, hardware acquisition costs, licensing costs
> (just to name a few).
>
> This becomes increasingly important as virtualization initiatives
> are kicked off amongst various customers given various innovations in
> operating systems (scheduling
> classes, virtualization technologies, processor affinity technologies)
> and processor architectures (multi-core, multi-thread, CMT).
>
> I would volunteer to act as an initial leader here, and as an initial
> code contributor to the OpenSolaris Chargeback Project.
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Isaac
>
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