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Version: 3.5

Enable pay-as-you-go billing

After you have set up your cluster using any of the paid, trial, or free Portworx licenses, you can enable pay-as-you-go billing by acquiring a pay-as-you-go SaaS key from the Pure Storage support team and performing the following steps based on your cluster environment.

Enable pay-as-you-go billing on internet connected clusters​

Prerequisites​

  • You have a pay-as-you-go SaaS key that was acquired by contacting the Pure Storage support team.
  • HTTPS port 443 is open
  • Hosts for activating the SaaS key:
    • rest.zuora.com
    • flex1327.compliance.flexnetoperations.com
tip

Run the dig rest.zuora.com +noall +answer command to check if the host is reachable or not.

Alternatively, you can run the following command:

$ curl https://rest.zuora.com                                                      
{"message":"no Route matched with those values"}

Enable pay-as-you-go billing​

The examples below use the portworx namespace, you should update this to the correct namespace for your environment.

  1. Run the following command on one of the node to activate your SaaS key:

    pxctl license activate saas --key <SAAS_KEY>
    note

    If you already have a Portworx cluster and run the above command, your PAYG (pay-as-you-go) license will be activated. You can then follow the verifying steps to check if your SaaS key is activated. However, if you are installing a new Portworx cluster, you should follow the procedure in this section to activate your SaaS key before installing Portworx.

  2. Create a Kubernetes Secret

    Run the following command to a Kubernetes secrect and place your pay-as-you-go SaaS key into it:

    kubectl create secret generic px-saas \
    --from-literal=saas-key=<SAAS_KEY> -n portworx

  3. Update your StorageCluster spec

    Patch the pay-as-you-go Secret into your cluster. Follow the steps appropriate for your cluster's install method:

    Patch the STC using the Secret you created previous step:

    kubectl patch stc $stc --type='json' \
    -p='[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/env/0","value": {"name": "SAAS_ACCOUNT_KEY_STRING", "valueFrom":{"secretKeyRef":{"name": "px-saas", "key": "saas-key"}}}}]' -n portworx

    The above step patches your StorageCluster stc and appends the following under the env: parameter. This will enable pay-as-you-go billing on your cluster.

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

    Wait for a few minutes and then verify if the automatic rolling upgrade is successful by running the following command. You will observe that the new pods have been created recently with new px-cluster-<id>. You can also see the latest timestamp under AGE, as shown in the following example:

    kubectl get pods -n portworx -l name=portworx
    NAME                                                    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    px-cluster-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-ef93c42d8aeb-b66td   2/2     Running   0          6m56s
    px-cluster-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-ef93c42d8aeb-fqdgj   2/2     Running   0          5m16s
    px-cluster-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-ef93c42d8aeb-t8ldc   2/2     Running   0          9m

  4. Verify if your SaaS key activated

    Check your SaaS key license usage by running pxctl status from one of the worker nodes:

    pxctl status
    Status: PX is operational
    Telemetry: Disabled or Unhealthy
    Metering: Healthy
    License: PX-Enterprise Usage Based (expires in 209 days)
    ...

Enable pay-as-you-go billing on air-gapped clusters​

You can enable pay-as-you-go billing for an air-gapped cluster with no outbound connectivity by acquiring a pay-as-you-go account key from Portworx.

note

Once you enable a pay-as-you-go license for an air-gapped cluster with no outbound connectivity, you currently can't switch to any other license.

Prerequisites​

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

Enable pay-as-you-go billing on an air-gapped cluster​

  1. Activate the pay-as-you-go license key that you received from Portworx.

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

  2. Verify if the license is activated.

    /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl  status
    Status: PX is operational
    Telemetry: Disabled or Unhealthy
    Metering: Healthy
    License: PX-Enterprise Usage-Based-Airgapped
    Node ID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-0d74f9801263

  3. Download your consumption report.

    pxctl service usage-report –download \
    –month <month number to download report for> \
    —year <year for which to download report>

This command creates a tarball on your system, which you can email to the support team for billing.

Reactive pay-as-you-go billing when a cluster is moved into air-gapped environment​

When you convert a cluster with a pay-as-you-go billing model to an air-gapped cluster, you need 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​

You have 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: saas-key

  3. Once it is removed, all Portworx pods will restart.

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

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

  5. Verify that your SaaS key is activated. Check your SaaS key license usage by running pxctl status from one of the worker nodes:

    pxctl status
    Status: PX is operational
    Telemetry: Disabled or Unhealthy
    Metering: Healthy
    License: PX-Enterprise Usage Based (expires in 209 days)
    ...

    To see more detailed information about your license run pxctl license list

    pxctl license list
    DESCRIPTION                                             ENABLEMENT                      ADDITIONAL INFO
          Number of nodes maximum                                           1000
          Number of volumes per cluster maximum                            16384
          Volume capacity [TB] maximum                                        40
          Node disk capacity [TB] maximum                                    256
          Node disk capacity extension                                       yes
          Number of snapshots per volume maximum                              64
          Number of attached volumes per node maximum                       1024
          Storage aggregation                                                yes
          Shared volumes                                                     yes
          Volume sets                                                        yes
          BYOK data encryption                                               yes
          Limit BYOK encryption to cluster-wide secrets                       no
          Resize volumes on demand                                           yes
          Snapshot to object store [CloudSnap]                               yes
          Number of CloudSnaps daily per volume maximum                    unlim
          Cluster-level migration [Kube-motion/Data Migration]               yes
          Disaster Recovery [PX-DR]                                          yes
          Autopilot Capacity Management                                      yes
          OIDC Security                                                      yes
          Bare-metal hosts                                                   yes
          Virtual machine hosts                                              yes
          Product SKU                                             PX-Enterprise Usage Based       expires in 209 days

          For information on purchase, upgrades and support, see
          https://docs.portworx.com/knowledgebase/support.html

    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: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-0d74f9801263

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