When you sign up for a trial account, you get a subaccount called trial automatically created for you, and all trial entitlements assigned to it by default. If you choose to create an additional subaccount and try things out there, you need to manually move the entitlements from the default subaccount to the new subaccount. You may want to:
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Move over all trial entitlements.
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Move over only some of them.
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Split quota for a service plan between the 2 subaccounts.
Each service has one or more service plans available. A service plan is the representation of the costs and benefits for a given variant of a particular service. For instance, a database may be configured with various “T-shirt sizes”, each of which is a different service plan.
Some service plans use numeric quota, which means that you can increase or decrease the number of units available in a subaccount. Depending on the service, these units represent different things and may impact the amount of service instances, applications or routes you can have in a subaccount.
There are also service plans where the quota is simply shown as “limited”. In that case, you can entitle that service to multiple subaccounts without having to worry about how much of it to distribute to each subaccount. You can think of assigning entitlements for such service plans as “enabling” subaccounts to use them.
There are several places in the cockpit where you can view and configure entitlements and quotas for subaccounts:
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at global account level
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at subaccount level
You can also use directories to distribute entitlements. To find out more about directories, see the documentation on Directories.
In this tutorial, you’ll work on global account level. You have one global account that is your trial account.