In Azure Licensing Manager, license pools are containers for license bundles that you can create to match the logical structure of your organization. They allow you to allocate the number of licenses available for each business unit within your company and provide reporting tools to give you intelligent and actionable data about your licensing costs. Among other things, this data can be used to distribute licenses where needed, reduce the number of licenses per unit and pass license costs to the business units responsible for them.
You need to have either the License Admin for All Pools and Bundles Management Role or a combination of the Management Roles specified in the Azure Licensing Manager Management Roles topic to create a license pool.
How to create license pools
On the navbar, click Azure License Manager to expand it and then click Manage Assignments.
Select the License Pools tab and then click the Add New button at the top of the grid.
Fill in the fields on the License Pool form that appears.
Name — Enter a logical name for the license pool.
Display Name — Enter the name for the license pool that users see when searching in the UI.
Enabled — Check to enable the license pool.
Creation Location — Click the Select a Location link and then search for and select the location.
When ready, click Save to create the License Pool.
Now that you have created a license pool, the next step is to create a license bundle for the pool. This is demonstrated in the the Create License Bundles topic.