Community Edition PLUS Agent for Windows

[mhack]

Hi,
I am looking at using Veeam Community Edition to protect a small Domain comprised of -
1 Hyper-V Host with..
2 VM guest Servers
8 workstations

I understand the VCE will support 10 instances so my question is this:
Can I use VCE to support the 2 VMs and 8 Workstations (10 instances) and 1 instance of Veeam Agent for windows for the Hyper-V host itself?

[Dima P.]

Hello and welcome to the community mhack,

2 VM guest Servers
8 workstations

That will consume all the free instances from Community Edition.

1 instance of Veeam Agent for windows for the Hyper-V host itself

You can use standalone agent running in free mode to protect the entire host but such agent cannot be connected to the Community Edition.

[mhack]

Hey Dima P,
Thanks for your reply. Can you please explain what you mean by "...but such agent cannot be connected to the Community Edition"

[asdffdsa6131]

you can install the agent free edition on some of the workstations and back them up to a file share, nothing to do with vce

[Dima P.]

Correct: standalone agent cannot be connected to the mentioned Community Edition as it will require one of the free licenses. Remaining option is to run such agent in a standalone mode and store backup files locally or to a shared folder.