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Version: 3.2

Licensing operations

Check your license

A brief license summary is provided with the pxctl status command:

pxctl status
Status: PX is operational
License: Trial license (expires in 30 days)
[...]

Run the pxctl license list command to see more details about each licensed feature. For example,

pxctl license list
DESCRIPTION                  ENABLEMENT  ADDITIONAL INFO
Number of nodes maximum 1000
Number of volumes maximum 1024 [...]
Virtual machine hosts yes
Product SKU Trial expires in 30 days
note

7 days before your Portworx license is set to expire, Portworx sends an alert notifying your license is about to expire and how long you have to renew your license. The alert will keep triggering after the license has expired. For more details, see this page.

List available licenses

You can use pxctl license list to list installed licenses as follows:

pxctl license list
DESCRIPTION				ENABLEMENT	ADDITIONAL INFO
Number of nodes maximum 1000
Number of volumes maximum 100000
Volume capacity [TB] maximum 40
Storage aggregation yes
Shared volumes yes
Volume sets yes
BYOK data encryption yes
Resize volumes on demand yes
Snapshot to object store [CloudSnap] yes
Cluster-level migration [Kubemotion] yes
Bare-metal hosts yes
Virtual machine hosts yes
Product SKU Trial expires in 6 days, 12:13

LICENSE EXPIRES: 2019-04-07 23:59:59 +0000 UTC
For information on purchase, upgrades and support, see
https://docs.portworx.com/knowledgebase/support.html

As you can see, the command gives details on the features allowed under the current licenses, and it lists the SKU.