Overview

When to Renew Subscriptions

If you want to continue using CloudDC after it expires, you need to renew the CloudDC subscription within the specified period. Otherwise, resources, such as intelligent racks, iMetal servers, and CloudDCN subnets, will be manually released according to contract requirements, and data will be lost and cannot be restored.

If you renew CloudDC resources before they expire, resources will be retained and you can continue using CloudDC. For details about statuses of CloudDC resources after they have expired and the associated impacts, see Impact of Expiration.

How to Renew Subscriptions

You can renew yearly/monthly CloudDC resources manually or automatically based on Table 1.

You can select a method to renew yearly/monthly CloudDC resources based on the phase the CloudDC resources are currently in. For details, see Figure 1.

Figure 1 Resource lifecycle

• CloudDC resources are in the Running state after they are provisioned.
• When the subscription expires, the status will change from Running to Expired.
• If expired CloudDC resources are not renewed, they enter a grace period. If they are not renewed by the time the grace period expires, the CloudDC resources will be frozen and enter a retention period.
• If you do not renew the subscription before the retention period expires, your resources will be deleted based on the contract requirements.

For details about the grace period and retention period, see What Is a Grace Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It?

You can enable auto-renewal any time before CloudDC resources expire. By default, the system will make the first attempt to charge your account for the renewal at 03:00, seven days before the expiry date. If this attempt fails, it will make another attempt at 03:00 every day until the subscription is renewed or expires. You can change the auto-payment date for renewal as required.