Scheduling

Organizations often have non-production VMs which are not used at night or on weekends, and so running these VMs during these times may be incurring unnecessary costs. Use CerteroX FOCUS Scheduling reporting to analyse environments & usage and use CerteroX Resource Schedules to reduce spend by automatically restricting uptime of non-production VMs to permitted hours.

The FOCUS Scheduling reporting is for exploring and identifying VMs that are running full-time or for periods longer than required or expected; for example, in non-production environments where power scheduling may be implemented to reduce costs.

Use Perspectives and Perspective filtering to isolate VMs of interest, e.g. non-production subaccounts. Or simply set the vtag.NonProd filter to True.

Your selection in the Minimum Hours filter will restrict the chart columns to only count VMs that have been billed (i.e. been running) for a number of hours greater than the selection. Selecting zero will show all VMs with any billing greater than zero.

The Minimum Hours filter options include hints about their usefulness. The (daily) selections are most useful when the chart interval is daily, and the items like 50 hrs (10x5) will ONLY display data for monthly intervals, because there's only 24 hours in a day.

Selecting 50 hrs (10x5), for example, corresponds to the 50 hours amassed by running a VM for 10 hours a day, 5 days a week (e.g. not weekends); so, selecting this and scoping on non-production indicates VMs running longer than 50 hours a week that may require power scheduling optimisation.

Similarly, filtering on non-prod, selecting 168 hrs (25x7), and choosing the weekly interval shows you non-prod VMs running 24x7.