Borland Credits are a virtual currency that can be used to purchase CloudBurst testing services, available from the Silk Performer Cloud Portal. Details on how the amount of Borland Credits required to purchase a CloudBurst test is calculated are contained in the Online Help under, " CloudBurst Load Test Fees " There is also an online Borland Credits calculator available from the cloud portal: https://cloud.borland.com If you log in, Select “Home” “Services” “CloudBurst", the calculator is the last tab on the right. The results are estimates rather than guaranteed costs. The estimation of CloudBurst credits needed is “pessimistic” in a way that it should cover all costs that can occur. Concerning Loadtest fees: If for some special scenarios a loadtest would run longer than estimated and the customer has no credits left or if it would run longer than 24 hours, then the CloudBurst service will request the Silk Performer Controller to gracefully stop the Loadtest. If it is shorter than 24 hours and the customer has enough credits the reservation of credits will be adapted for an additional hour (and again as long as the other limits are not reached). Concerning Infrastructure (passive agents) fees: Generally as long as a Loadtest is running or collecting results from agents (or in other words as long as the Silk Performer Controller reports an agent as being used), these agents will not stop even if their “shutdown time” is already reached. In this special case we will not debit the customer for the further time an agent might run. We have also implemented a “Pay as you Go” feature, which would enable a customer to run in overdraft. We need to explicitly mark a customer’s account as “Pay as you Go” for this to be available. A Pay as you Go customer could be billed monthly based on the credits they have used rather than buying them in advance. For further details please contact your Micro Focus representative.
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