Resource consumption and cost report

1 Description
2 Input parameters
3 Report content
4 Calculations
- 4.1 Calculation notes

Description

This report shows the resources consumed by an enterprise and the resource costs. Click on a resource name in the report to drill-down into an enterprise’s resource usage to virtual datacenter, virtual appliance, and virtual machine granularity, showing the cost breakdowns for each.
This report uses the Abiquo accounting data to determine resource usage. And it uses the enterprise's Abiquo pricing template to calculate the costs. The result is always in hours.

Input parameters

Parameter	Description	Notes

Parameter	Description	Notes
Start date	The beginning of the date range for the report	Default start date is two years prior to today's date
End date	The end of the report date range for the report. The report uses data for all the days up to but not including this date	Default is today's date

Report content

The report is tabular in format, giving a breakdown of the resource usage and cost in pairs of columns for each resource type with appropriate totals for combined resources. The following is a breakdown of the resources included in the report and a description of their consumed units:

Resource	Description

Resource	Description
CPU	The number of VM CPUs in hours. For example, a VM with 1 CPU running for a whole day will consume 24 CPU units. Also CPU with the VM powered ON and OFF.
Memory	The amount of Memory consumed by VMs, in GB per hour. For example, a VM with 4GB of RAM running for a whole day will consume 96 RAM units. Also RAM with the VM powered ON and OFF.
External storage	The amount of storage allocated in external (network attached) volumes, in GB per hour. Note that external storage is charged for even when it is not in use by any VM. For example, a 10 GB external volume will consume 240 External Storage units in 24 hours.
VLAN	The number of ‘Internal/Private’ networks being used, per hour. For example, a VDC with a single network will consume 24 network units in one day
Public IP	The number of public IP addresses allocated, per hour. Note that public IPs are charged for even when they are not in use by any VM
Images	The number of VM templates (or images) from the Catalogue being used by VMs, per hour. Note that the cost for Catalogue templates varies, and is dependent on the cost code (extra charges) associated with the template and its corresponding cost in an Abiquo pricing template. For example, a VM using a template from the Catalogue will consume 24 units if running for the whole day, but the cost of those units will depend on the VM template’s extra charges.

Calculations

In this report the consumption units are hours, so Abiquo will convert all accounting usage and pricing data to hours.

The report has two columns, Consume and Cost, which are calculated as follows:

Consume = Accounting usage for report period (recorded per accounting period in granularity units) * Accounting granularity hours conversion factor
Cost = Consume * Pricing cost / Pricing hours conversion factor

Accounting granularity hours conversion factor: Converts accounting granularity to hours, e.g. if accounting granularity is month, it is 30 * 24. See Calculation notes below

Pricing hours conversion factor: Converts pricing charging period to hours. The same ratios are used as in the Accounting granularity hours conversion factor.

Detail of Resource consumption and cost for a VDC

For the report shown above:

The accounting period is HOUR
The accounting granularity period is HOUR.

During the period of the report, the enterprise Abiquo used 40 CPUs with an accounting period of DAY and an accounting period granularity of HOUR. To calculate the consume value we use:

Accounting usage in hours with granularity of hours  * Accounting period granularity hours conversion factor = Consume

522         										 *             1                      = 522

In the pricing model assigned to the enterprise Abiquo:

The CPU is charged at 0.1 EUR
The charging period is MONTH

Therefore the Cost is calculated as:

Consume x Pricing cost / Pricing hours conversion factor = Cost

  522   x    0.1    /               24 * 30                = 0.0725

In the report, this value is rounded to 2 decimal places, i.e. 0.07

The Pricing hours conversion factor is the same as the Accounting period granularity hours conversion factor. See Calculation notes below.

Calculation notes

To find the Accounting granularity of your system you can use the following MySQL query:

MariaDB [kinton_accounting]> select * from ACCOUNTING_CONFIG_VW;
+--------------------+-------------+--------------------+ ...
| ACCOUNTING_ENABLED | PERIOD_SIZE | PERIOD_GRANULARITY | ...
+--------------------+-------------+--------------------+
|                  1 | DAY         | HOUR               | ...
+--------------------+-------------+--------------------+ ...
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

The Accounting period granularity hours conversion factor is:

Accounting period	Accounting period granularity hours conversion factor

Accounting period	Accounting period granularity hours conversion factor
HOUR	1
DAY	24
WEEK	7 * 24
MONTH	30 * 24

Note: Accounting usage is recorded per accounting period, but accounting granularity is the unit for storing accounting usage. If accounting period is 1 day and granularity is 1 hour, and 1 CPU is used for 1 hour, accounting takes the maximum value for the accounting period and usage is 24 units.