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Hi everyone,

we are having 14 sockets licensed. So we get 6 free instances.
We bought a new cluster that will replace 4 blades end of June.

I now added 5 new hyper-v machines to the cluster and cannot backup them because of the missing licenses. But i also do not want to add 4 new sockets to my license if i get 8 "free" in June.
How or can i use the free instance licenses for these 5 hyper-v workloads until then?

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Hi Stephan,

Can you elaborate a bit about the license you have, because you need a different amount of instances for protecting physical workloads depending on the License edition.
You can see it in the Veeam Instance Licensing conversion table. Thanks!

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Sure.
I have an B&R Enterprise Plus Perpetual license with 14 CPU sockets (Hyper-V).
These are totally used. I have 6 instance licenses (for free i think) of which none is used.
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So, you can deploy a Veeam Agent for Windows on each of these new servers and it should consume instances you've got for free. Thanks!
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Ok thanks i will do it like that. I thought i could assign the instance license to the failing VMs somewhere without installing the agent.
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It's described in the Veeam Licensing Policy here.
Veeam Licensing Policy wrote:"In case where you have Socket-based license with the included instances, VMware and Hyper-V VMs will be licensed using CPU Sockets only.
Instances will cover Agents, Plug-Ins, Cloud VMs & AHV VMs, excluding VMware and Hyper-V VMs"
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