Switch your pay-as-you-go billing to an air-gapped cluster

When you convert a cluster with a pay-as-you-go billing model to an air-gapped cluster, you now have the option to transfer your Portworx license as well.

Follow the instructions on this page to transfer your pay-as-you-go Portworx license to your air-gapped cluster.

Prerequisite

• An air-gapped SaaS key for an air-gapped cluster, acquired by contacting the Pure Storage support team.

Move your license to an air-gapped cluster

1. Delete the px-saas-key secret that was previously used to enable pay-as-you-go billing for your non-air-gapped environment.

2. Edit your StorageCluster spec and remove the following env section for the SAAS_ACCOUNT_KEY_STRING environment variable:

   env:
   - name: "SAAS_ACCOUNT_KEY_STRING"
     valueFrom:
       secretKeyRef:
         name: px-saas-key
         key: account-key

   Once it is removed, all Portworx pods will restart.

3. Once Portworx is online, run the following command:

   pxctl license activate saas --key <pay-as-you-go-key>

4. Verify that the license is activated:

   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

   You can see that the license has been updated to PX-Enterprise Usage-Based-Airgapped.