Create plans for an Azure application offer

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Offers sold through the Azure commercial marketplace must have at least one plan to list your offer in the commercial marketplace. You can create a variety of plans with different options within the same offer.

Create a plan

  1. Near the top of the Plan overview tab, select + Create new plan.
  2. In the dialog box that appears, in the Plan ID box, enter a unique plan ID. This ID will be visible to customers in the product URL. Use up to 50 lowercase alphanumeric characters, dashes, or underscores. You cannot modify the plan ID after you select Create.
  3. In the Plan name box, enter a unique name for this plan. Customers will see this name when deciding which plan to select within your offer. Use a maximum of 2,000 characters.
  4. Select Create.

Define the plan setup

The Plan setup tab enables you to set the type of plan, whether it reuses the technical configuration from another plan, and what Azure regions the plan should be available in. Your answers on this tab will affect which fields are displayed on other tabs for this plan.

To re-use a technical configuration

  1. Select the This plan reuses the technical configuration from another plan of the same type check box.
  2. In the list that appears, select the base plan you want.

Note

When you re-use packages from another plan, the entire Technical configuration tab disappears from this plan. The Technical configuration details from the other plan, including any updates that you make in the future, are used for this plan as well.

Select Azure regions (clouds)

You can publish your plan to the Azure China Operated by 21Vianet. Before publishing to Azure China Operated by 21Vianet, test and validate your plan in the environment as certain endpoints may differ. To set up and test your plan, request a account from Azure China Operated by 21Vianet trial.

You, as the publisher, are responsible for any compliance controls, security measures, and best practices. Azure China Operated by 21Vianet uses physically isolated data centers and networks.

Define the plan listing

The Plan listing tab is where you configure listing details of the plan. This tab displays specific information that shows the difference between plans in the same offer. You can define the plan name, summary, and description as you want them to appear in the commercial marketplace.

  1. In the Plan name box, the name you provided earlier for this plan appears here. You can change it at any time. This name will appear in the commercial marketplace as the title of your offer's software plan and is limited to 200 characters.
  2. In the Plan summary box, provide a short summary of your plan (not the offer). This summary is limited to 100 characters.
  3. In the Plan description box, explain what makes this software plan unique and any differences from other plans within your offer. Don't describe the offer, just the plan. This description may contain up to 3,000 characters.
  4. Select Save draft before continuing.

Next steps

Do the following: