Creating a plan

As we have seen in the previous section, plans are logical groupings of one or more services and their associated quotas. Let's walk through the process of creating a plan that includes compute, network, and storage resource providers. This sample plan will give subscribers the ability to provision virtual machines:

1. The starting point for creating a plan is to sign in to the Azure Stack Hub administrator portal, which is found at the following URL: https://adminportal.local.azurestack.external.
2. Once signed into the administrator portal, click the + Create a resource button at the top of the left-hand pane. Then select Offers + Plans, and finally select Plan. This is shown in the following screenshot:

   Figure 8.7 – Azure Stack Hub administrator portal – create a plan

   This will then bring up a tabbed user interface, which will enable you to specify the plan name, add services, and define quotas for each of the selected services.

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