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# Business hour scheduling

# Business hour scheduling {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated August 11, 2026
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You can set up business hour scheduling on all virtual machines in a stack. Business
hour scheduling can be set up on stacks at the time of provisioning or on existing
stacks.  
Schedules can be set for when a stack should be started, stopped, and/or deprovisioned by defining parameters such as business hours, holidays, long weekends.  
Note:  
For Google Deployment Manager (GDM) based template catalog, business hour scheduling and stack level operations are not supported.

The administrator can create schedule profiles in the Cloud Admin Portal. See [Resource Profiles](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/LQwMiW4rqe7qkTx1gQJg8Q "Resource profiles are cloud provider-agnostic definitions that specify the allowed attribute values for a resource. Resource profiles enable you to control the choices that the user sees when requesting a cloud resource. As a result, you do not need to define a unique blueprint for each variation of the resource.").

While provisioning a stack in the Cloud User Portal, use the Schedule Profile list to select a profile that has already been created by the administrator.
Select a time zone in the Schedule Time Zone list which defaults to your
system's time zone and indicates the time zone in which the schedule's business hour time frames
are enforced.

You can also define the lease end dates for a stack during provision. The lease end date for a
stack can be modified at any time. See [Modify the lease for a stack](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/T3Kg7s3Lh0IdY4HYwaCXtQ "When a stack reaches the end of its lease, the system notifies the stack owner and deprovisions the stack. You can modify the lease for a stack before it approaches its end date.").

Once you provision a stack with a schedule and/or lease dates, a series of operations (start,
stop, deprovision) occur at the appropriate time set by you. You can skip a business schedule
operation or cancel the business schedule operations associated with a stack. See [Modify business schedule operations for a stack](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/~QtOdtqv9dKWlWw2l58m7A "Business hours scheduling can be performed on stacks at the time of provisioning or on existing stacks.").