Re: [CentOS-virt] Traffic Accounting & KVM vs Xen

On 2013-08-16 02:24, Robert Dinse wrote:

   I am getting to where we want to offer virtual servers for lease but to

do so we need some method of measuring and/or limiting traffic to individual guests.

   I am wondering what others are using for this purpose?  I know that you

can look at traffic stats on the bridge on the host machine but that information is lost when the machine is rebooted. I'm wondering if there is any software that databases that information on an ongoing basis and does not lost information across reboots?

What would be your policies when reaching the quota? Depending on that, you could take some solution or another. In a previous work, we used AAA with Coova and FreeRADIUS, but you can also just use iptables.