Enable pay-as-you-go billing on an air-gapped cluster

You can enable pay-as-you-go billing for an air-gapped cluster with no outbound connectivity by acquiring a pay-as-you-go account key from Portworx.

Note: Once you enable a pay-as-you-go license for an air-gapped cluster with no outbound connectivity, you currently can’t switch to any other license.

Prerequisites

An air-gapped Portwox Kubernetes cluster
An air-gapped SaaS key from Portworx

Enable pay-as-you-go billing on an air-gapped cluster

Activate the pay-as-you-go license key that you received from Portworx.
```
pxctl license activate saas --key <pay-as-you-go-key>
```

Verify if the license is activated.

/opt/pwx/bin/pxctl  status

Status: PX is operational
Telemetry: Disabled or Unhealthy
Metering: Healthy
License: PX-Enterprise Usage-Based-Airgapped
Node ID: 9e743afc-5178-4915-a926-0d74f9801263

Download your consumption report.

pxctl service usage-report –download \
–month <month number to download report for> \
—year <year for which to download report>

This command creates a tarball on your system, which you can email to the support team for billing.

Switch to pay-as-you-go billing on an existing Kubernetes cluster

Transfer licenses