HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 and 7.3 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

NOTE: Matrix infrastructure orchestration allows an administrator to change the cost of deployed
services using the modifyService CLI. This allows and administrator to change any value set
by an architect after the service is provisioned. The following cost types can be specified:
• fixedCostOfService
• costPerIP
• baseCostPerServer
• costPerUnitOfMemory
• costPerProcessor
• costPerGB
For more information, see the HP CloudSystem Matrix/Matrix Operating Environment Integration
Interfaces API and CLI Operations Reference Guide, available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/
docs.
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.
158 Matrix infrastructure orchestration provisioning and allocation