Operating Environment Software Instruction Manual

Specifying fixed costs for templates and services
Matrix infrastructure orchestration allows a template architect to add a fixed cost to a template, in
addition to server, network, and storage costs. Examples of fixed costs are power or setup costs.
Enter a fixed cost in infrastructure orchestration designer by clicking the Cost tab in a template,
and entering a value in the Fixed Cost text box.
Select a value for Cost Frequency, which is the time interval for which a fixed cost is calculated.
Values are Month (default), Week, Day, Hour, or Unspecified.
Specifying per-unit costs for resources
In infrastructure orchestration designer, right click on the server group to display the Config tab,
where you can enter costs per number of servers in the server group, processors per server, and
memory size.
Costs for a server in an IO template is split into three values:
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