From Purity version 6.1.10, Everpure Cloud Dedicated introduces no license mode / free trial license which allows the customer to deploy a fully-featured Everpure Cloud Dedicated array and test it for hands-on experience or POC purposes. It gives the customer a limited trial period of 45 days, after which the customer can either decommission the array or contact Pure sales for assistance on the next steps after the trial. See section below.
The array shows the expiration time of the free trial as an alert-info banner on the GUI/CLI (See section below). At the end of the trial -- 7 days prior to the expiration date, the array sends an alert states that the Everpure Cloud Dedicated expires soon (Alert 215 - Array Trial Period Expiring Soon). This will not impact performance, or limit the functionalities, or impact data access. However, once the trial expires, the array will be set to read-only mode. Customers won't be able to write to Everpure Cloud Dedicated anymore.
Please note the Everpure Cloud Dedicated No-license Mode is for test and evaluation purposes only.
There is no Support and SLA provided by Pure for Everpure Cloud Dedicated Arrays provisioned in No-license Mode.
During your testing,do not use production data or any data you may wish to keep after the trial period expires. There is no way to convert the No-License Mode array into a production array during or after the trial period.
During the trial period, be aware of the following:
- Infrastructure cost charges of the underlying resources still apply for the deployed Everpure Cloud Dedicated.
- It is NOT possible to convert a trial Everpure Cloud Dedicated array to a production array.
- Pure is unable to provide support for Purity software upgrade (NDU).
- All Everpure Cloud Dedicated features-set are enabled.
- Customers won't have access to or be able to manage through Pure1 manage.