Creating a service plan

To create a service plan:

1.On the left side of the Storage page, click on the Service Plans tab.

2.At the top of the Service Plans panel, click on the Create Service Plan button.

The Create Service Plan wizard opens.

3.On the Name page in the wizard, use the appropriate fields to specify a name for the new service plan and, optionally, a description for the service plan.

A service plan name must be from one through 64 characters long, can contain only alphanumeric characters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_), and are not case sensitive.

A service plan description can be up to 1,024 characters long and can contain any valid UTF-8 characters, including white space

4.Click on the Next button.

5.On the Import page in the wizard, you are given the option to import the configuration for an existing service plan into the service plan you’re creating. When you import the configuration for an existing service plan, the storage tiers that are configured for that plan are automatically defined in the new plan. You can then use the imported service plan configuration as a starting point to configure each of the tiers you want to define in the service plan.

If you want to import the configuration for an existing service plan into the new service plan you’re creating, check the box next the existing service plan you want to import.

6.Click on the Next button.

7.On the Review page in the wizard, review the information you entered in the wizard.

8.Take one of the following options:

oIf the information you entered is correct, click on the Finish button.

oIf the information is incorrect, use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate through the pages of the wizard and make the changes you want. When you’re satisfied with the configuration settings you’ve entered, click on the Finish button.

When you click on the Finish button, the wizard exits, and the Storage page displays the Tiers panel on the service plan configuration page for the service plan that you’ve just created.

You can use Tiers panel to add one or more new tiers to the service plan configuration. If you chose to import the configuration from another service plan into the new plan you created, you can also delete or modify any of the existing tiers that were imported from that plan. For more information on this, see Modifying a service plan below.

If you’re satisfied with the storage tiers that are configured for the new service plan, you can click on the Tenants tab at the top of the page and use the Tenants panel to assign the service plan to one or more tenants. For more information on this, see Assigning a service plan to one or more tenants.

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