Apply Portworx Backup Licenses
Portworx Backup offers both node-count and node-hour based licenses.
The table below 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
Portworx Backup includes a 30-days trial license, by default. Contact Portworx support to purchase an enterprise license.
📄️ Activate air-gapped metering license
New licensing type for air-gapped customers to pay only for the backup nodes that are in use
📄️ Label non-backup nodes
How to label nodes as non-backup nodes to skip licensing count