Budget

On the Budget page, you can view and set monthly budgets for the metered capacity usage in a pool.

A monthly budget puts a limit on the amount that can be spent each month on metered capacity. If you do not want to limit the amount that can be spent in a month on metered capacity, you can set the monthly budget to unlimited.

When budgeting is enforced for a pool, a monthly budget cannot be exceeded. Therefore, when a monthly budget is reached, processor throttling starts on all of the systems in the pool that are currently using more than their purchased base capacity. 

Budgeting is not enforced for pools that allow dedicated processor partitions.

When budgeting is not enforced for a pool, a monthly budget can be exceeded.  Therefore, when a monthly budget is reached, processor throttling is not started to limit metered capacity consumption and metered capacity charges continue to accrue.  (The remaining current month’s budget is shown as negative.)

You can set a monthly budget to zero.   When the first metered minute for the current month is consumed:

• When budgeting is enforced, the systems are throttled to use only base capacity gradually over the next 4 days. Notification of pool throttling is sent.
• A "Monthly Budget Met" notification indicates that current month's budget is reached.

You can set the budget for the current month or future months on the Budget page. You can set a budget to a number of credits or to unlimited. You can change the default budget setting for the pool. When you change the default budget setting, all future months that have the current default budget settings are changed to the new default budget setting.

For pools using prepaid capacity credits, you can view the real-time remaining credit balance and the budget for the current month in the upper right corner of the Budget page. You can configure remaining credit balance and budget notifications on the Settings page for the pool. You always receive a notification when your remaining credit balance reaches 0, and a monthly budget limit is reached. Even when budgeting is not enforced for a pool, budget notifications are still functional.

If your remaining credit balance stays at or below 0 for 30 consecutive days, processor throttling starts on all of the systems in the pool that are currently using more than their purchased base capacity. Metered capacity charges continue to accrue after the remaining credit balance reaches 0. (The remaining credit balance is shown as negative.)

For pools with monthly billing, you can view the real-time Month-To-Date Credits Used and budget for the current month in the upper right corner of the page. You can configure budget notifications on the Settings page for the pool. You always receive notifications when the budget is set to a non-zero positive value and it is reached. Even when budgeting is not enforced for a pool, budget notifications are still functional.

Click Purchase Credits to open the Entitled Systems Support (ESS) website in a new browser tab. You can purchase more credits for the pool in the ESS website (where available). If you purchase more credits for the pool, click Refresh Capacity to update the credits in the EP 2.0 app. The Purchase Credits button is not shown for pools with monthly billing. 

Expand View Credit Rates to display the credit rates for the metered resource types. The credit rates are expressed as the number of minutes per credit for each of the metered resource types. You can view the current, past, and future credit rates. You receive notifications when new credit rates become available, and when new credit rates go into effect.

Click Export CSV to export the monthly budget amounts and metered capacity usage to a file in CSV format.

Parent topic: Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 with Utility Capacity