Merge pull request #208980 from bandersmsft/update-208919

MCM - Buy VM software reservation update

Author: Court72

articles/cost-management-billing/reservations/buy-vm-software-reservation.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ms.reviewer: primittal
 ms.service: cost-management-billing
 ms.subservice: reservations
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 03/17/2022
+ms.date: 08/24/2022
 ms.author: banders
 ---
 
@@ -22,13 +22,35 @@ You can buy virtual machine software reservation in the Azure portal. To buy a r
 
 ## Buy a virtual machine software reservation
 
-1. Select your desired plan from Azure Marketplace that has reservation pricing.
-2. Browse to Reservations blade, click on Add, select Virtual Machine software reservation, it will navigate to Azure Marketplace to show plans that have reservation pricing.
-3. Select the desired Virtual machine software reservation that you want to buy.
-Any virtual machine software reservation that matches the attributes of what you buy gets a discount. The actual number of deployments that get the discount depend on the scope and quantity selected.
-3. Select a subscription. It's used to pay for the plan.
-The subscription payment method is charged the upfront costs for the reservation. To buy a reservation, you must have owner role or reservation purchaser role on an Azure subscription that's of type Enterprise (MS-AZR-0017P or MS-AZR-0148P) or Pay-As-You-Go (MS-AZR-0003P or MS-AZR-0023P) or Microsoft Customer Agreement.
-    - For an enterprise subscription, these reservation purchase charges are not deducted from the enrollment's Azure Prepayment (previously called monetary commitment) balance. The charges are billed to the subscription's credit card or invoice payment method.
+There are two ways to purchase a virtual machine software reservation:
+
+**Option 1**
+
+1. Navigate to Reservations, select **Add**, and then select **Virtual Machine**. The Azure Marketplace shows offers that have reservation pricing.
+2. Select the desired Virtual machine software plan that you want to buy.  
+    Any virtual machine software reservation that matches the attributes of what you buy gets a discount. The actual number of deployments that get the discount depend on the scope and quantity selected.
+3. Select a subscription. It's used to pay for the plan.  
+    The subscription payment method is charged the upfront costs for the reservation. To buy a reservation, you must have owner role or reservation purchaser role on an Azure subscription that's of type Enterprise (MS-AZR-0017P or MS-AZR-0148P) or Pay-As-You-Go (MS-AZR-0003P or MS-AZR-0023P) or Microsoft Customer Agreement.
+    - For an enterprise subscription, the reservation purchase charges aren't deducted from the enrollment's Azure Prepayment (previously called monetary commitment) balance. The charges are billed to the subscription's credit card or invoice payment method.
+    - For an individual subscription with pay-as-you-go pricing, the charges are billed to the subscription's credit card or invoice payment method.
+4. Select a scope. The scope can cover one subscription or multiple subscriptions (using a shared scope).
+    - Single subscription - The plan discount is applied to matching usage in the subscription.
+    - Shared - The plan discount is applied to matching instances in any subscription in your billing context. For enterprise customers, the billing context is the enrollment and includes all subscriptions in the enrollment. For individual plan with pay-as-you-go pricing customers, the billing context is all individual plans with pay-as-you-go pricing subscriptions created by the account administrator.
+    - Management group - Applies the reservation discount to the matching resource in the list of subscriptions that are a part of both the management group and billing scope.
+    - Single resource group - Applies the reservation discount to the matching resources in the selected resource group only.
+5. Select a product to choose the VM size and the image type. The discount will apply to matching resources and has instance size flexibility turned on.
+6. Select a one-year or three-year term.
+7. Choose a quantity, which is the number of prepaid VM instances that can get the billing discount.
+8. Add the product to the cart, review, and purchase.
+
+**Option 2**
+
+1. Browse to Marketplace to view offers that have reservation pricing. Apply a **Pricing** filter for **Reservation**.
+2. Select the desired Virtual machine software offer that you want to buy. Then select the desired plan.  
+    Any virtual machine software reservation that matches the attributes of what you buy gets a discount. The actual number of deployments that get the discount depend on the scope and quantity selected.
+3. Select a subscription. It's used to pay for the plan.  
+    The subscription payment method is charged the upfront costs for the reservation. To buy a reservation, you must have owner role or reservation purchaser role on an Azure subscription that's of type Enterprise (MS-AZR-0017P or MS-AZR-0148P) or Pay-As-You-Go (MS-AZR-0003P or MS-AZR-0023P) or Microsoft Customer Agreement.
+    - For an enterprise subscription, these reservation purchase charges aren't deducted from the enrollment's Azure Prepayment (previously called monetary commitment) balance. The charges are billed to the subscription's credit card or invoice payment method.
     - For an individual subscription with pay-as-you-go pricing, the charges are billed to the subscription's credit card or invoice payment method.
 4. Select a scope. The scope can cover one subscription or multiple subscriptions (using a shared scope).
     - Single subscription - The plan discount is applied to matching usage in the subscription.