Proposed Feature: Monitoring and Managing Cloud Usage Costs in Apache CloudStack

Proposed Feature
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Monitoring and Managing
Cloud Usages in ACS
C O M M I T E D D I G I T A L E X P E R T I S E
D I M S I . F R

Your
Speake
rs
Grégoire
LAMODIERE
CEO, Cloud Solutions Architect
Joffrey
LUANGSAYSANA
Cloud Expert
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Who are we?
About Dimsi.
Why a reporting feature?
Current trends, clients feedback
State of the art
Reporting in Azure
What about Cloudstack
Usage Service / instances consumption history
Proposed Feature
Explanation / mockup
Let's chat
An open discussion

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25 experts on three
locations
Team Size
Lorient
Paris
Lyon
Creation
2006
Practices

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EXPERTISE
Microsoft
Power Platform
Cloud & Services
Modern Apps

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Why a reporting feature #1 ?
Many organizations are building roadmaps re-thinking their
infrastructure practices
- Onpremise : VMWare clients are no longer confident regarding
Broadcom sales strategy => considering technology migration
o Virtual Machines only : Proxmox, XCP, KVM => CS as KVM
management
o Complex workloads / Orchestrations : Cloudstack, Openstack,
OpenNebula and others
- Cloud :
- Costs are much higher than expected + digital sovereignty
=> Which can lead to Cloud hybrid or full repatriation
- Global : Many opportunities for Apache Cloudstack adoption

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Why a reporting feature#1 ?
From our leads feedbacks: 3 barriers to Apache CloudStack Adoption
Barriers Customers Solution
Migration
path
« This migration project will need
massive effort from my team »
✅ Simplified by mutiple tools (ie. CloudStack VM
Ingestion, virt-v2v)
Knowledge « My team has only basic
knowledge in Linux world, I’m not
sure they’ll be able to handle this
new infrastructure »
✅ Bootcamp training services
✅ Design and implementation services
✅ Support services
Reporting « I need an infrastructure report,
and my management is pushing to
go for greenops. They love our
current cloud reporting system »
❌ No standard reporting capabilities in
cloudstack
❌ No built-in feature to define consumptions
KPIs (electrical, turnover, etc)
❌ Even usage service is only API Based, with no
Frontend

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State of the art: Example - Microsoft Azure dashboard

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State of the art: Microsoft GreenOps
Dashboard
Goal : Get the CO2 emissions of services provided
Pros : very simple agragated view
Cons : Not really accurate, mainly based on service location

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Data
• Usage service with API capabilities: Instances and infrastructure consumption
• listCapacity API command: Capacity consumption by pod or cluster
• listVirtualMachinesUsageHistory
• listSystemVmsUsageHistory
• listUsageRecords
listUsageRecords startdate=2025-03-01 enddate=2025-03-02 domainid=9d190e08-f1b0-412d-b28d-811e61191a9e
{
"account": "Admin",
"accountid": "02383f45-f318-439a-b8d9-6addbe7aa",
"cpunumber": 4,
"cpuspeed": 2400,
"description": "Running VM usage for SRV1 (i-12-18680-VM) (bf83ef25-e2e2-432b-8e53-49e5ef4d718f) using service offering KVM (4104c50c-
fb7a-45cb-a788-dec8d39a2d7a) and template Win-Srv-2016-Std-KVM (9405a5e3-5460-4e9c-a773-b95dc17a4346)",
"domain": « 387",
"domainid": "9d190e08-f1b0-412d-b28d-811e61191a9e",
"domainpath": "/IAAS/387/",
"enddate": "2024-03-01'T'23:59:59+00:00",
"memory": 4096,
"name": « SRV1",
"offeringid": "4104c50c-fb7a-45cb-a788-dec8d39a2d7a",
"oscategoryid": "47c7f725-1fed-11e8-a604-f61f8a45771f",
"oscategoryname": "Windows",
"osdisplayname": "Windows PV",
"ostypeid": "47f03dcf-1fed-11e8-a604-f61f8a45771f",
"rawusage": "24",
"startdate": "2024-03-01'T'00:00:00+00:00",
"tags": [],
"templateid": "9405a5e3-5460-4e9c-a773-b95dc17a4346",
"type": "KVM",

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Reporting & UI
• CS 4.20 : usage-ui to display and download usage records
• Cluster / host / VM ressources metrics

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Proposed feature
Expand Cloudstack reports and dashboarding for both providers and end-users
• Ressources & Ops :
• Dashboard solution for consumption services with history
• Provider and customer view
• Filtering : infrastructure, domain, account, projects
• GreenOps :
• Generate greenops dashboard
• Set solution to gather electrical consumption from hosts (automatic / manual)
• Identify impact of instance in host
• Identify impact of a network in the networking insfrastructure
• Set consumption based on localisation

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Proposed feature Ressources & Ops Dashboard: Global Admin or IT Service
 Number of ressources created and deleted (Domains, VPC, Networks, VMs)
 Network and Storage
 Number of logins, Powered off / on VMs

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Proposed feature Ressources & Ops Dashboard: End user
Least used VMs in % consumption for set period

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Limitations
We anticipate
Performances :
• Limitations for larger infrastructure
• Time needed to generate report / dashboard
• Data history processing
Technical :
o Ops
• Retrieve %use for some OS
• DB performances impact and storage for metrics history for
VMs and hosts
o GreenOps
• Find generic solution to gather host real consumption
• Core infrastructure (switching, etc) : real consumption ?
• Component impact, manufacturing impact and production
resources

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For Your Attention
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Proposed Feature: Monitoring and Managing Cloud Usage Costs in Apache CloudStack

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