diff --git a/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage-sysd b/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage-sysd
deleted file mode 100755
index a7c0f2fc039..00000000000
--- a/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage-sysd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-. /etc/sysconfig/cloudstack-usage
-
-start() {
-    if [ -s "$PIDFILE" ] && kill -0 $(cat "$PIDFILE") >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-        echo "$PROGNAME apparently already running"
-        exit 0
-    fi
-
-    if hostname --fqdn >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-        true
-    else
-        echo "The host name does not resolve properly to an IP address. Cannot start $PROGNAME"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-
-    echo -n "Starting $PROGNAME" "$SHORTNAME"
-
-    if /usr/bin/jsvc -pidfile $PIDFILE $DAEMON -home "$JAVA_HOME" -cp "$CLASSPATH" -pidfile "$PIDFILE" -user "$USER" \
-      -errfile $LOGDIR/cloudstack-usage.err -outfile $LOGDIR/cloudstack-usage.out -Dpid=$$ $CLASS
-        RETVAL=$?
-    then
-        rc=0
-        sleep 1
-        if ! kill -0 $(cat "$PIDFILE") >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            rc=1
-        fi
-    else
-        rc=1
-    fi
-
-    if [ $rc -ne 0 ]; then
-        echo > "$PIDFILE"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
-
-stop() {
-    echo -n "Stopping $PROGNAME" "$SHORTNAME"
-    if [ -e $PIDFILE ] ; then
-        kill $(<$PIDFILE) > /dev/null 2>&1
-        echo > $PIDFILE
-    else
-        echo Unable to stop $SHORTNAME, no pid file
-        echo > $PIDFILE
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
-
-case "$1" in
-    start)
-        start
-        ;;
-    stop)
-        stop
-        ;;
-    status)
-        status -p $PIDFILE $SHORTNAME
-        RETVAL=$?
-        ;;
-    restart | force-reload)
-        stop
-        sleep 3
-        start
-        ;;
-    *)
-    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
-    RETVAL=3
-esac
-
-exit $RETVAL
-
diff --git a/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.sysconfig b/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.sysconfig
deleted file mode 100755
index 4154fef9242..00000000000
--- a/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.sysconfig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-SHORTNAME="cloudstack-usage"
-PIDFILE=/var/run/"$SHORTNAME".pid
-LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/"$SHORTNAME"
-LOGDIR=/var/log/cloudstack/usage
-LOGFILE=${LOGDIR}/usage.log
-PROGNAME="CloudStack Usage Monitor"
-CLASS="com.cloud.usage.UsageServer"
-USER=cloud
-
-UCP=`ls /usr/share/cloudstack-usage/cloud-usage-*.jar`":"`ls /usr/share/cloudstack-usage/lib/*.jar | tr '\n' ':'`
-JCP="/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar":"/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar"
-
-CLASSPATH="$UCP:$JCP:/etc/cloudstack/usage"
-
diff --git a/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec b/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec
index f13560e6785..e620a7748aa 100644
--- a/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec
+++ b/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 #
 #   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-# 
+#
 # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 # software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 # "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Requires: iptables-services
 Group:     System Environment/Libraries
 %description management
 The CloudStack management server is the central point of coordination,
-management, and intelligence in CloudStack.  
+management, and intelligence in CloudStack.
 
 %package common
 Summary: Apache CloudStack common files and scripts
@@ -134,9 +134,6 @@ The CloudStack baremetal agent
 %package usage
 Summary: CloudStack Usage calculation server
 Requires: java => 1.7.0
-Requires: jsvc
-Requires: jakarta-commons-daemon
-Requires: jakarta-commons-daemon-jsvc
 Requires: mysql-connector-java
 Group: System Environment/Libraries
 %description usage
@@ -179,10 +176,10 @@ if [ "%{_ossnoss}" == "NOREDIST" -o "%{_ossnoss}" == "noredist" ] ; then
    FLAGS="$FLAGS -Dnoredist"
 fi
 
-if [ "%{_sim}" == "SIMULATOR" -o "%{_sim}" == "simulator" ] ; then 
+if [ "%{_sim}" == "SIMULATOR" -o "%{_sim}" == "simulator" ] ; then
    echo "Adding simulator flag to the maven build"
    FLAGS="$FLAGS -Dsimulator"
-fi 
+fi
 
 mvn -Psystemvm -DskipTests $FLAGS clean package
 
@@ -215,7 +212,7 @@ python -m py_compile ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{python_sitearch}/cloud_utils.py
 python -m compileall ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{python_sitearch}/cloudutils
 cp build/gitrev.txt ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/%{name}-common/scripts
 cp packaging/centos7/cloudstack-sccs ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/bin
- 
+
 mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/%{name}-common/scripts/network/cisco
 cp -r plugins/network-elements/cisco-vnmc/scripts/network/cisco/* ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/%{name}-common/scripts/network/cisco
 
@@ -313,11 +310,7 @@ install -D usage/target/cloud-usage-%{_maventag}.jar ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir
 install -D usage/target/transformed/db.properties ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/usage/db.properties
 install -D usage/target/transformed/log4j-cloud_usage.xml ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/usage/log4j-cloud.xml
 cp usage/target/dependencies/* ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/%{name}-usage/lib/
-install -D packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.service ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_unitdir}/%{name}-usage.service
-install -D packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.sysconfig ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/%{name}-usage
-install -D packaging/centos7/cloud-usage-sysd ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/sbin/%{name}-usage-sysd
-mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_localstatedir}/run
-touch ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_localstatedir}/run/%{name}-usage.pid
+install -D packaging/cloudstack-usage.service ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_unitdir}/%{name}-usage.service
 mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_localstatedir}/log/%{name}/usage/
 
 # CLI
@@ -365,7 +358,7 @@ if [ "$1" == "1" ] ; then
 fi
 
 if [ ! -f %{_datadir}/cloudstack-common/scripts/vm/hypervisor/xenserver/vhd-util ] ; then
-    echo Please download vhd-util from http://download.cloud.com.s3.amazonaws.com/tools/vhd-util and put it in 
+    echo Please download vhd-util from http://download.cloud.com.s3.amazonaws.com/tools/vhd-util and put it in
     echo %{_datadir}/cloudstack-common/scripts/vm/hypervisor/xenserver/
 fi
 
@@ -413,7 +406,6 @@ id cloud > /dev/null 2>&1 || /usr/sbin/useradd -M -c "CloudStack unprivileged us
 /sbin/service cloudstack-usage stop || true
 if [ "$1" == "0" ] ; then
     /sbin/chkconfig --del cloudstack-usage > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
-    /sbin/service cloudstack-usage stop > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
 fi
 
 %post usage
@@ -421,8 +413,7 @@ if [ -f "%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/management/db.properties" ]; then
     echo Replacing db.properties with management server db.properties
     rm -f %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/usage/db.properties
     ln -s %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/management/db.properties %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/usage/db.properties
-    /sbin/chkconfig --add cloudstack-usage > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
-    /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 cloudstack-usage on > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    /usr/bin/systemctl enable cloudstack-usage > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
 fi
 
 if [ -f "%{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/management/key" ]; then
@@ -516,7 +507,6 @@ fi
 %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-common-%{version}/NOTICE
 
 %files usage
-%attr(0644,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/%{name}-usage
 %attr(0755,root,root) /usr/sbin/%{name}-usage-sysd
 %attr(0644,root,root) %{_unitdir}/%{name}-usage.service
 %attr(0644,root,root) %{_datadir}/%{name}-usage/*.jar
@@ -524,7 +514,6 @@ fi
 %dir %attr(0770,root,cloud) %{_localstatedir}/log/%{name}/usage
 %attr(0644,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/usage/db.properties
 %attr(0644,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/usage/log4j-cloud.xml
-%attr(0644,cloud,cloud) %{_localstatedir}/run/%{name}-usage.pid
 %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-usage-%{version}/LICENSE
 %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-usage-%{version}/NOTICE
 
diff --git a/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.service b/packaging/systemd/cloudstack-usage.service
similarity index 56%
rename from packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.service
rename to packaging/systemd/cloudstack-usage.service
index a1bbc1dda89..9a1827da613 100644
--- a/packaging/centos7/cloud-usage.service
+++ b/packaging/systemd/cloudstack-usage.service
@@ -15,23 +15,24 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
-# Systemd unit file for CloudStack Management server
-# 
-# clone tomcat service, see /usr/lib/systemd/system/tomcat.service
-
 [Unit]
 Description=CloudStack Usage Server
-After=syslog.target network.target
+Documentation=http://www.cloudstack.org/
+Wants=network.target network-online.target
+After=network.target network-online.target
 
 [Service]
-Type=forking
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cloudstack-usage-sysd start
-ExecStop=/usr/sbin/cloudstack-usage-sysd stop
-SuccessExitStatus=143
-User=cloud
-Group=cloud
-EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/cloudstack-usage
+Type=simple
+Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre
+Environment=JAVA_HEAP_INITIAL=256m
+Environment=JAVA_HEAP_MAX=2048m
+Environment=JAVA_CLASS=com.cloud.usage.UsageServer
+ExecStart=/bin/sh -ec '\
+    export UCP=`ls /usr/share/cloudstack-usage/cloud-usage-*.jar /usr/share/cloudstack-usage/lib/*.jar | tr "\\n" ":"`; \
+    export CLASSPATH="$UCP:/etc/cloudstack/usage:/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar"; \
+    ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -Xms${JAVA_HEAP_INITIAL} -Xmx${JAVA_HEAP_MAX} -cp "$CLASSPATH" $JAVA_CLASS'
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=10s
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
-
diff --git a/usage/conf/log4j-cloud_usage.xml.in b/usage/conf/log4j-cloud_usage.xml.in
index 1a1bfd9da34..2b639ecbbd6 100644
--- a/usage/conf/log4j-cloud_usage.xml.in
+++ b/usage/conf/log4j-cloud_usage.xml.in
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ under the License.
       </rollingPolicy>
 
       <layout class="org.apache.log4j.EnhancedPatternLayout">
-         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ISO8601}{GMT} %-5p [%c{3}] (%t:%x) %m%n"/>
+         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p [%c{3}] (%t:%x) %m%n"/>
       </layout>
    </appender>
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ under the License.
    <category name="com.cloud">
      <priority value="DEBUG"/>
    </category>
-   
+
    <!-- Limit the org.apache category to INFO as its DEBUG is verbose -->
    <category name="org.apache">
       <priority value="INFO"/>
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ under the License.
    <category name="org">
       <priority value="INFO"/>
    </category>
-   
+
    <category name="net">
      <priority value="INFO"/>
    </category>