Activate a subscription as a Cloud Services Provider
As a Cloud Services Provider, you can onboard a for your customers.
Starting April 26, 2024, Subscription Manager will no support new subscription onboarding.
Verify that you are familiar with managing subscriptions as a Cloud Services Provider. Go to Managing subscriptions as a Cloud Services Provider.
- Log in to Cloud Partner Network with your Cloud Services Provider credentials.
- SelectCustomer Management.
- Select an existing customer organization or create a new customer organizationExpanding the entry for any of the customer organizations displays the services and endpoints attached to that organization. To activate a subscription, the customer organization requires that theVMware Aria Subscriptionservice is attached to the organization.
- Create a customer organization and add theVMware Aria Subscriptionservice.
- ClickAdd Customer.
- Enter the customer organization details such as a display name, company name, and domain.The region selected for the customer organization is automatically applied to the activated subscription during onboarding.
- To finish creating the customer organization, clickSave.
- FromCustomer Management, select the created customer organization.
- ClickProvision Service.You are logged into the customer organization.
- Select theVMware Aria Subscriptionservice and clickProvision Service.
- Verify the provisioning details and clickConfirm.
- Create a subscription.
- Log in to the Cloud Services Provider organization.
- SelectConfigurator.
- UnderWhat new subscription do you want to create, verify thatVMware Aria Subscriptionis selected.
- ClickCreate.
- Purchase the subscription for the customer organization.
- Select the customer organization and clickNext.
- Select the edition you want your customer to be subscribed to.All available subscriptions use core as their purchase unit.
- Enter the quantity of units you want to purchase and the duration of the subscription term.Currently, the only available billing option isPrepaid.
- ClickSaveand then clickNext.
- Tick the price acknowledgement check box.
- To finish placing your order, clickCreate Subscription.
- Verify that you want to finish creating the subscription by clickingCreate.You cannot make further amendments to the subscription until the new charges are processed and paid.
- Verify that the services included in the subscription are attached to the customer organization.
- Log in to the customer organization.
- Navigate to theServicespage and verify that the services included in the subscription are listed.It can take several minutes for the subscription to be processed and for all the services to be attached.
- Onboard the subscription.
- Log in toVMware Aria Subscriptionwith the customer organization credentials.
- Navigate to theSubscriptionspage.
- Verify the subscription details.
- ClickFinish Onboarding.
You have activated and onboarded subscription for your customer organization.