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- Workload deployment cost includes dollar cost of Instance Type (based on <Service, VNFC, cloud owner>) and dollar cost (or discount) of other cloud-specific features feature groups corresponding to the intent expressed under the deployment-intent keyword in the OOF → MC API
- As an example, with respect to the deployment-intent, "Infrastructure Resource Isolation for VNF" with "Burstable QoS" can yield potential cost savings as compared to "Guaranteed QoS" by allowing smart over-subscription while still guaranteeing isolation
- Note that the operator is free to choose the method of calculating the cost which includes initial cost, support cost & operational cost.
- Note that the operator is free to choose what time duration the cost metric is specified for each of the MultiVIM plugins (e.g., cost per hour, cost per month) since they will do it consistently for each of the VIMs.
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