Apply Portworx Backup Licenses
Portworx Backup offers both node-count and node-hour based licenses.
The following table provides an overview of various license types Portworx Backup offers to its users:
| License Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Enterprise | A node-count and node-hour based license which allows the users to create, restore, schedule, and delete the backups of the applications along with their data, add nodes, and clusters. |
| Air-gapped metering | Users can avail the benefits of usage-based licensing in air-gapped environments that depends on node-count or node-hour along with other enterprise version functionalities. |
| Trial | Provides enterprise version functionalities with a time limit (30-days) and node limit (1000 nodes). |
The following topics explain management of various types of licenses offered by Portworx Backup:
📄️ Manage licenses
This topic explains how users can manage their licenses for Portworx Backup, including the process for importing different types of licenses
📄️ Activate air-gapped metering license
Explains how users in air-gapped environments (isolated from the internet) can activate a usage-based metering license for Portworx Backup.
📄️ Label nodes
This topic explains how to label nodes as non-backup nodes in Portworx Backup to exclude them from the licensing count.