Re: [Observium] Billing per VM host
I'm running the Cisco freemium version of the Nexus 1000v virtual switch on my ESXi 4.1 boxen, mainly because I needed LACP uplink capability, which was not available in the vSwitch. Then I discovered that you can get SNMP stats on a per-vEthernet port (meaning per host!) from the 1000v. Sweet!
The poller takes a bit longer to run on the 1000v, just like it does on all other Nexus products, but well worth having the information. And yes, you can set up traffic accounting based on the polled information.
...Ron
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Xavier Beaudouin xavier.beaudouin@hsoftware.com wrote:
Hi,
Are there any plans to include billing per VM host in Observium?. I currently have Vmware ESXi hosts and I would like to be able to bill traffic per VM machine.
All VM hosts are under VDS switch but observium doesn’t recognise separate ports.
I really think the best way to do that is add a snmpd daemon on these hosts...
Or use somewhat virtual switch from cisco... (didn't tested this solution btw)
Xavier
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very interesting! I was supposed to test if the v1000 could do that this week, thats great news! :) Does observium work well on graphing the v1000 switch?
/Markus
2014-12-16 13:08 GMT+01:00 Ron Marosko, Jr. ron@rjr-services.com:
I'm running the Cisco freemium version of the Nexus 1000v virtual switch on my ESXi 4.1 boxen, mainly because I needed LACP uplink capability, which was not available in the vSwitch. Then I discovered that you can get SNMP stats on a per-vEthernet port (meaning per host!) from the 1000v. Sweet!
The poller takes a bit longer to run on the 1000v, just like it does on all other Nexus products, but well worth having the information. And yes, you can set up traffic accounting based on the polled information.
...Ron
*Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
Xavier Beaudouin xavier.beaudouin@hsoftware.com wrote:
Hi,
Are there any plans to include billing per VM host in Observium?. I
currently
have Vmware ESXi hosts and I would like to be able to bill traffic per VM machine.
All VM hosts are under VDS switch but observium doesn’t recognise
separate
ports.
I really think the best way to do that is add a snmpd daemon on these hosts...
Or use somewhat virtual switch from cisco... (didn't tested this solution btw)
Xavier
-- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01
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