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BlueXP digital wallet

Manage PAYGO subscriptions and contracts

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When you subscribe to BlueXP data services (including Cloud Volumes ONTAP) from a cloud provider's marketplace, you're redirected to the BlueXP website where you need to save your subscription and associate it with your BlueXP organization. After you've subscribed, each subscription is available to manage from the BlueXP digital wallet.

Note The Marketplace subscriptions page lists all licenses. If you want license details for a specific data service, use the data service tiles on the Overview dashboard. Learn more about the Overview dashboard.

View your subscriptions

The BlueXP digital wallet provides details about each PAYGO subscription and annual contract associated with your BlueXP organization or account.

For Google Cloud, you can also identify marketplace subscriptions that are associated with a private offer, which enables you to verify that you've successfully accepted the offer.

Steps

  1. From the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

    You'll only see the subscriptions that are associated with the organization that you are that you're currently viewing.

  3. As you view the information about your subscriptions, you can interact with the details in the table as follows:

    • Use Advanced Search and Filtering to determine which subscriptions are shown in the table. You can search by a a specific name of a subscription and filter by a variety of subscription parameters such as type and configuration.

    • Expand a row to view more details.

      A screenshot of the Subscriptions tab in the digital wallet where you can select the arrow at the end of a row to expand it.

    • Select the plus icon at the end of the table header to choose which columns appear in the table.

      Note that the Term and Auto Renew columns don't appear by default. The Auto Renew column displays renewal information for Azure contracts only.

    Note the following about what you see in the table:

    Start date

    The start date is when you successfully associated the subscription with your account and charging started.

    N/A

    If you see N/A in the table, the information isn't available from the cloud provider's API at this time.

    Term

    If your Google Cloud subscription is associated with a private offer and that private offer was modified after it was created and accepted, then the term shows N/A. In this scenario, the API response that we receive from the Google Cloud Marketplace doesn't include term-related information.

    Contracts

    • If you expand the details for a contract, the BlueXP digital wallet shows what's available for your current plan: the contract options and units (capacity or number of nodes).

    • The BlueXP digital wallet identifies the end date and whether the contract will renew soon, end soon, or whether it has already ended.

    • If you have an AWS contract and you changed any of the contract's options after the start date, be sure to validate your contract options from the AWS Marketplace.

    • If you have a Google Cloud private offer, contract options aren't available.

Rename a subscription

You can rename a subscription to better identify how it is used in your organization.

Steps

  1. From the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

  3. Select the action menu in the row that corresponds to the subscription that you want to manage and choose Rename.

    A screenshot of the Rename option for a subscription.

Configure a subscription with a provider credential

Subscriptions are typically configured with the provider credential that you created when you subscribed. In some cases, you may need to reconfigure a subscription to use a different credential if you want to change the way it is charged. The credential you associate with a subscription must be a credential that is also associated with a connector.

The format of the credential depends on the marketplace you are using. For example, Azure marketplace subscriptions are associated with the name of the Azure subscription, while AWS marketplace subscriptions use the AWS account ID. You can see a list of available credentials from the Credentials page.

The Configure option is grayed out if you have unsubscribed to a subscription.

Steps

  1. From the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

  3. Select the action menu in the row that corresponds to the subscription that you want to configure and choose Configure.

  4. In the Configure dialog, choose a credential to which to configure the subscription. You can only choose from credentials that are associated with the currently selected connector. If you don't see the credential that you want to use, try switching to a different connector view.

Associate a subscription with a BlueXP organization

Associating a subscription with an organization ensures members of that that organization can use that subscription for charging.

You can limit use of a subscription to a specific organization or share the subscription between multiple organizations.

You must have the organization admin role in order to associate a subscription with an organization.

Note BlueXP supports Identity and Access Management (IAM) in standard mode which uses organizations to manage users and resources. If you're using BlueXP in private or restricted mode, then you use a BlueXP account to manage users and resources, including subscriptions.
Steps

  1. From the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

  3. In the row for the subscription you want to associate, open the action menu and select Associate.

  4. In the Associate the subscription dialog, select one or more organizations to associate with the subscription.

  5. Select Associate.

View credentials associated with a subscription

You can view the credentials for a specific subscription from the Marketplace Subscriptions page in the digital wallet. This allows you to verify how the subscription is being billed. Because credentials are also tied to the connector you are using, you must select the connector associated with the subscription you want to see.

Note Use the Connector drop-down in the top navigation bar to switch connectors if you need.
Steps

  1. From the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

  3. On the row that contains the subscription whose credentials you want to view, select View. If there are multiple credentials associated with a subscription, no credentials may show and you are directed to select a different connector.

Add a new marketplace subscription

You can subscribe to a marketplace subscription directly from digital wallet.

AWS

The following video shows the steps to subscribe to BlueXP from the AWS Marketplace:

Subscribe to BlueXP from the AWS Marketplace
Azure

The following video shows the steps to subscribe from the Azure Marketplace:

Subscribe to BlueXP from the Azure Marketplace
Google Cloud

The following video shows the steps to subscribe from the Google Cloud Marketplace:

Subscribe to BlueXP from the Google Cloud Marketplace
Steps

  1. From the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

  3. Above the Subscriptions table, select Add Subscription.

  4. In the Add Subscription dialog, select a cloud provider.

    1. If choosing an AWS subscription, choose whether you want an annual contract or PAYGO subscription.

  5. Select Add subscription to navigate to the provider's marketplace and complete the steps provided.

  6. When finished at the cloud provider marketplace, return to BlueXP to complete the process.

Unconfigure a subscription

Before you can remove a subscription, you must unconfigure it. This clears all associated data and settings.

Steps

  1. In the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

  3. In the row for the subscription you want to unconfigure, click the action menu and select Unconfigure.

  4. Follow the prompts to remove or reset any associated settings or data.

  5. Wait for the status to update to Unconfigured.

Remove a subscription

When you unsubscribe from a BlueXP subscription in your cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure), the digital wallet shows the subscription status as Unsubscribed.

You can remove Unsubscribed subscriptions from the digital wallet so they no longer appear.

Note

You can only remove a subscription if it is both Unsubscribed and Unconfigured.
This means all related settings, data, and configuration must be cleared or reset before removal.

If the subscription is still configured, the Remove option is not displayed.
To make the option available, unconfigure the subscription by clearing any associated settings, services, or data.
Steps

  1. In the BlueXP navigation menu, select Governance > Digital wallet.

  2. Select Marketplace Subscriptions.

  3. In the row for the subscription you want to remove, open the action menu and select Remove.

    You can only remove subscriptions with a status of Unsubscribed and Unconfigured.

  4. In the Remove subscription dialog, confirm that you want to remove the subscription.