Windows Azure Pack plan, also known as hosting plan, is a mechanism of assigning cloud service offerings to tenants as per their deal or contract agreement considerations, such as a variety of services, quota, the amount of resources available, the quality of service, and so on. The cloud provider creates and configures the plan as per the deal or cloud offering strategy; tenants subscribe to the plan to get access to configured cloud service offerings. A plan usually contains a collection of services to be made available along with defined restrictions or limits.

A single plan can be subscribed by multiple tenants having the same requirements. A plan may consist of multiple resource provider services, such as VM Clouds (IaaS), websites and Service Bus (PaaS), Databases (DBaaS), or other custom offerings.

Tenants cannot access cloud services without subscribing to at least one plan. They may subscribe to multiple plans as per requirements...