# Overview

Service Plans determine the amount of compute resources available to each Instance. When provisioning new Instances from VM Essentials, a plan is selected which determines the number of CPU cores, amount of memory and the amount of storage available to the associated machines. Additionally, when converting discovered instances in integrated clouds to VM Essentials-managed Instances, the user selects a plan which best fits the instance as it is currently configured. When Instances are reconfigured, a new plan may be selected which redefines the compute resources which should be available to the Instance. Plans can be as specific or open-ended as the user would like, restricting the user to the resources defined in the plan or allowing the user to increase those amounts at provision time.

The Plans section Administration > Plans is where Plans are managed. A set of Service Plans are seeded by VM Essentials for immediate use with supported Cloud type out of the box. Additional Plans may be synced in on integrating additional Clouds depending on the type. Users can create new Service Plans or edit the system-seeded Service Plans for Private Cloud types.

**Subtopics**  

- **[Create Service Plan](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007735en_us/render?page=GUID-FA5B37E8-E994-44C0-9C4C-1F9DF1A83C96.html)**
- **[Service Plan Permissions](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007735en_us/render?page=GUID-3E03B539-B71C-4D2E-A218-23713D723408.html)**
- **[Service Plan Configuration](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007735en_us/render?page=GUID-EDCE321C-91B2-4C2D-8773-9F9B6485CB1B.html)**
