Usage Metering in Service Provider Foundation

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator

As a hoster, Service Provider Foundation provides usage metering that enables you to:

• Obtain metrics for tenant usage consumption for virtual machines, CPU, memory, network, and disk.

• Determine capacity utilization.

• Bill tenants for their usage according their plans.

Important

Service Provider Foundation provides the Usage web service to be used only by Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server or by third party billing providers. The Usage web service endpoint should not be accessed for other purposes to prevent data loss due to unnecessary or erroneous queries.

Tip

For information on integrating usage with a generic billing system using the Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server and API, see the Usage Extensibility.docx Microsoft Word document that is available in the download of "Web Sites, Virtual Machines, Service Management Portal, and Service Management API Samples - Feb 2013" from the Microsoft Download Center.

Usage Metering topics

• Configure Usage Metering in Service Provider Foundation

  Describes how to install the Windows Update component required to implement usage metering in Service Provider Foundation, and perform other essential configurations.

• Usage Metering Data Model in Service Provider Foundation

  Describes usage metering queries, the usage metering data flow model, metrics, and other information.

Other resources for this component

• Manage tenant costs for Windows Azure Pack

• TechNet Library main page for Service Provider Foundation