Deprecated service bundling policies, roles and templates, each assignment staying live-linked and scoped to a single subscription. Nothing new could be defined after 31 July 2026, and on 31 January 2027 it retires in favour of deployment stacks and Template Specs.
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Terms in this definition
- subscription
Entitlement bought for a product under VCF 9.0 licensing, carrying a set capacity. Where active ones share the same site, unit and product, their capacity is combined into licences, which are then allocated to vCenters.
- Deployment stacks
Azure resources treating a set of jointly deployed resources as a single managed unit; together with Template Specs they replace Blueprints.
- Template Specs
Azure resources that hold versioned ARM templates. Alongside deployment stacks, they are the successor to Azure Blueprints.