| Parameter Name | Description | Required |
| cpunumber | the CPU number of the service offering | true |
| cpuspeed | the CPU speed of the service offering in MHz. | true |
| displaytext | the display text of the service offering | true |
| memory | the total memory of the service offering in MB | true |
| name | the name of the service offering | true |
| bytesreadrate | bytes read rate of the disk offering | false |
| byteswriterate | bytes write rate of the disk offering | false |
| deploymentplanner | The deployment planner heuristics used to deploy a VM of this offering. If null, value of global config vm.deployment.planner is used | false |
| domainid | the ID of the containing domain, null for public offerings | false |
| hosttags | the host tag for this service offering. | false |
| iopsreadrate | io requests read rate of the disk offering | false |
| iopswriterate | io requests write rate of the disk offering | false |
| issystem | is this a system vm offering | false |
| isvolatile | true if the virtual machine needs to be volatile so that on every reboot of VM, original root disk is dettached then destroyed and a fresh root disk is created and attached to VM | false |
| limitcpuuse | restrict the CPU usage to committed service offering | false |
| networkrate | data transfer rate in megabits per second allowed. Supported only for non-System offering and system offerings having "domainrouter" systemvmtype | false |
| offerha | the HA for the service offering | false |
| serviceofferingdetails | details for planner, used to store specific parameters | false |
| storagetype | the storage type of the service offering. Values are local and shared. | false |
| systemvmtype | the system VM type. Possible types are "domainrouter", "consoleproxy" and "secondarystoragevm". | false |
| tags | the tags for this service offering. | false |