Adding Additional Hardware Profiles and Pricing on SpotCloud

[Reuven Cohen]

To be competitive in the SpotCloud Market, you may want to add additional hardware profiles in ECP.

To create additional hardware profiles please do the following.

1. Login into your ECP install using the "admin" user (refer to the setup guide for the default password and url)
2. Go to the Hosting Tab and select "hardware"
3. Click "New Hardware" - give it name such as a "super small"
4. Set hardware profile setting (ram, cpu etc), make sure to select x86_64 & KVM  as the hypervisor.
5. Set user Permissions - Go to User/Groups Tab
6. Choose edit permissions for broker or appropriated group associated with the SpotCloud provider user (typically customer or broker groups)
7. Check the 'Read' check box for the new profile "super small"
8. Login to the SpotCloud Management and go the pricing tab "https://spotcloud.appspot.com/provider/pricing"
9. Set your price and duration. (If this isn't set the profile will not be made available) 

You can create as many profiles as you like, each can have a different max duration price.

reuven

[CDR]

Does it look good?

ID	Profile Name	CPUs	Memory	Current Cost	Instance Count
61	Small	1	512.0 MB	$ 0.07	0
1052	Super Small	1	256.0 MB	$ 0.05	0
3072	Medium	2	1.0 GB	$ 0.1	0
7059	Large	4	2.0 GB	$ 0.15

[Reuven Cohen]

Depends on your margins, but yes it looks ok to me. Let me know when it's live and I'll send a few test VM's your way.

Btw, where are you located, so I can find you?

r/c