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Accept and activate an Azure private offer for the NetApp Console

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Accept and subscribe to a Marketplace private offer for the NetApp Console in the Azure portal. Configure Azure credentials in the Console.

Before you begin

  • Work with NetApp sales to create a private offer for your Azure Billing ID.

  • You have the required permissions to accept a private offer in the Azure Marketplace:

    • Enterprise Agreement (EA): Enterprise administrator

    • Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA): Billing account owner or Billing account contributor

  • You must have the required permissions to purchase a private offer in the Azure Marketplace and create a subscription:

    • Subscription owner or Subscription contributor of the Azure subscription being used

  • A single individual can both accept and purchase the private offer if they have the necessary permissions.

Accept and subscribe to the private offer in the Azure portal

An Azure subscription can be associated with only one Marketplace subscription.
If you want to use two different Marketplace subscriptions for workloads in the same Azure subscription, you must create two separate Console accounts—one for each subscription.
If you have multiple Cloud Volumes ONTAP instances and want to split billing across different subscriptions, create separate Console accounts for each subscription.

Important

You must complete all steps to accept and activate your private offer. Skipping steps may result in activation issues or double charging.

If you notice discrepancies in the offer terms, pricing, or details, or if you are unsure which offer to accept, do not accept the offer. Contact your NetApp sales team.

Accepting and activating the offer multiple times results in double charging.
Steps

  1. Click the private offer link provided by your NetApp sales team and sign in.
    If no link is available, sign in directly to the Azure portal.

  2. Search or select Marketplace from the Azure services.

  3. On the Marketplace page, click Private offer management under the Management section.

  4. Click View + accept to review the details of the private offer.

    1. Validate that the plan details, term, and pricing are correct.

    2. If details are incorrect, do not subscribe. Contact your NetApp sales team to correct the offer.

  5. Confirm and click Accept private offer.

  6. Click Purchase to complete the purchasing process.

    Note

    If the Purchase button is not available, confirm that you have the required purchasing permissions.
    If you do not, copy and share the purchase window link with someone in your organization who is authorized.

  7. In the purchasing workflow:

    1. Select the Azure subscription to use.

    2. Select the Resource group where the subscription will be created.

    3. Enter a Name for the new subscription.

  8. Optionally, set Tags (for product, site location, workload definition, or naming convention).

  9. Click Review and subscribe, validate the details, and then click Subscribe.

  10. When the subscription is successfully created, click Configure account now. This redirects you to the NetApp Console to complete configuration.

    Note

    Azure-side automation can take 30 seconds to 5 minutes to complete.
    If the page was closed before you clicked Configure account now, return to the service in the Azure portal.
    The subscription displays as Pending configuration. Select it to continue configuration.

  11. You are redirected to https://console.netapp.com and prompted to sign in.

  12. After logging in, you are redirected to https://console.netapp.com/licenses/overview.
    You are prompted to:

    1. Enter a Display name for the Marketplace Subscription.

    2. Select the Console Accounts that should have access to this subscription.

    3. Optionally, you can enable Replace existing subscription to automatically replace an existing Marketplace subscription in one Console account.

      Note

      • This replacement option is limited to a single Console account.

      • To associate multiple Console accounts with the same Marketplace subscription, configure the additional accounts manually.

  13. Click Associate.

  14. Complete the form to associate the subscription with your Console organization. Then, Click Associate.

  15. After associating the subscription, navigate and select the Billing preferences tab.

  16. Review the marketplace subscription options.

  17. Select the marketplace subscription you want to bill. This only applies when there is more than one option.

  18. Select Save changes.

  19. Repeat these steps as needed, if there are multiple subscriptions across multiple hyperscalers.

For more information on marketplace subscriptions and direct licenses billing, see the Billing preferences documentation.