Re: Internet usage for customers spanning data centers

On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Rick Kunkel wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> It's been a long while since I've asked anything on here...
> 
> I've been dodging this issue for quite some time, but it's time to address it.  I have a couple of data centers.  Customer X has always had equipment in only one of these data centers, and getting usage data for him has always been pretty easy using SNMP.  Now though, he wants to have equipment in both data centers,and he plans to send a lot of replication data back and forth between the two data centers.  We only bill for bandwidth to the outside world.
> 
> How do others handle billing/usage in this situation?

Netflow? sFlow?

W


>  I want to make sure that I'm charging him only for traffic that leaves our network.  My old method, gathering SNMP data on his switchport, will now include traffic destined for his machines in the other data center, and will therefore not work.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rick
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