HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

In infrastructure orchestration designer, right click on a virtual or physical disk to display the Config
tab, where you can enter the cost per disk unit (MB or GB).
Specifying costs for services deployed to public cloud providers
A template that is deployed to a public cloud service provider can associate a cost value and a
cost frequency to the external resources in the same way as for all other resources in a template.
This value represents the cost that the administrator or architect wants to charge users for that
service, and has no relation to the actual cost the cloud provider will charge the administrator for
the cloud instance.
The chargeback component reports costs for cloud external resources based on the cost assigned
to them in the service template. This gives the administrator and architect the opportunity to assign
costs that will cover service provider charges (recurrent, fixed, and so on) and the overhead required
to maintain the cloud bursting infrastructure. If, however, the administrator wants to change this
cost and charge users only for the cloud service provider charge for those servers, the chargeback
component identifies which resources are deployed to an external cloud provider.
Specifying a billing code for services
When creating a service, you can add a billing code, which allows IO chargeback or other data
mining solutions using the API or database to extract information about which organization to bill.
Enter a billing code by clicking the Options button on the Create Service from Template dialog,
and entering a value in the Billing Code text box.
Deactivated logical servers are counted as logical servers when cost information is calculated.
The billing code is displayed on the Service Details page.
Assigning and retrieving cost and billing information (chargeback) 139