Migrate from Portworx Essentials to Portworx Enterprise license

With the discontinuation of Portworx Essentials, customers using the PX-Essentials license SKU will experience functionality restrictions when upgrading their Portworx release. Specifically, once the PX-Essentials license expires, users will no longer be able to:

• Create new volumes
• Take snapshots
• Perform new backups

To prevent service disruptions, users must transition from PX-Essentials to Portworx Enterprise.

important

• Migrating from Portworx Essentials to Portworx Enterprise starts a 30-day trial license. After this period, you must purchase a Portworx Enterprise license to continue using Enterprise features.
• You cannot roll back from Portworx Enterprise to PX-CSI. To migrate from Essentials to PX-CSI, contact support for assistance.

Switch from PX-Essentials to PX-Enterprise

1. Modify the StorageCluster object by removing the --oem esse annotation from the StorageCluster object to disable the OEM Essentials mode.

   kind: StorageCluster
   apiVersion: core.libopenstorage.org/v1
   metadata:
     annotations:
       portworx.io/misc-args: "--oem esse"  # Remove this line

2. Save and apply the changes to the cluster. The system will initiate a gradual, node-by-node transition to Portworx Enterprise.

3. Once the transition begins, Portworx will automatically switch to the Portworx Enterprise container image (docker.io/portworx/px-enterprise). This process will activate a 30-day Trial License for Portworx Enterprise.