Flavor Billing - How it works?
Create pre-defined VM sizes (flavors) and set hourly price for each of them.
i.e. 512 MB RAM, 1GB RAM, 2 GB RAM
Setup initial package cost, that will be added to client balance as credit for future usage.
I.e. $5 USD - enough for 1 month of 512MB VM use
After purchase HostBill will provision user account in OnApp, mostly unlimited. You can limit VM count, backup size etc.
Client creates and destroys VMs directly from HostBill client area.
Every hour HostBill updates account billing details with number of VMs created and their sizes
Invoice generated is funded from client credit, client can top-up his credit balance at any point
Setup flavors/VM sizes
- Under settings->modules make sure that Cloud Flavor Manager is active
- Proceed to Extras->Cloud Flavor Manager
- Click on Add new flavor
- Provide flavor name, clien will see it in Create VM section
- Provide hourly price for this VM Size
- Tick "Enable" if client should see this size in clientarea
- Provide description, client will see it in Create VM Section
- Provide VM details, that will be passed to OnApp to create new VM:
- Provide Memory amount in MB
- Disk space in GB
- CPU Cores count
- CPU priority (share) in %
- Swap disk size (for windows template this size will be added to disk space)
- Network speed in Mbps
- Save changes
- Repeat this task for any VM size you wish to offer