Licensing

[gingerdazza]

Hi. Having trouble getting licensing and pricing information from Veeam Sales, so would appreciate some information here:

1. For socket based licensing, do customers need to buy a socket based VDRO license for EVERY socket in the environment, even if say 50% of the infrastructure is non-production and doesn't require DR/orchestration?
2. Do customers have to pay for socket licenses on just protected hosts, or on protected and DR hosts?

[Mildur]

I don't see socket based licenses for VAO. VAO licenses are sold in 10er bundles (per VM).
From the license FAQ:

Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator is procured in two ways:

Via DR Pack, which is a packaging option where Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator can be added on top of a new or previous purchase of either Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication to ensure business continuity for all your VMs (not just the most-critical ones)!
Total number of purchased DR Pack licenses must match the total number of VMware vSphere VMs licensed in Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, please refer to our pricing or contact sales.


Standalone: you can also purchase Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator as a standalone offering for only your most-critical VMs. These licenses are available in one-to-five-year annual subscriptions.

[Alec King]

Hi, There are essentially two ways to buy purchase Veeam Orchestrator -
1. Packs of 10 Orchestrator licenses, as many as required
2. "DR Pack" deal, where you purchase Orchestrator licenses for your entire (VM) environment, at a large discount

There is no way to purchase socket-based licensing for Orchestrator - it is subscription only.

Here is the license FAQ on our website.

Hope that helps, any further questions please let us know. Thanks!

[gingerdazza]

Strange. I was directly told by a Veeam RM that...

"All New, and existing contracts at renewal of VDRO DR Pack must follow the below rules:
1) VUL-only environments: DR Pack license count must match the number of VUL licensed vSphere VMs (rounded up to nearest increment of 10);
2) Socket-based license only or Mixed VUL and Socket environments: 1 DR Pack (10) required per every CPU socket in the environment. No log file is required as we no longer track the Socket license density."

[Alec King]

Technically, VDRO is not licensed per-socket. This is not implemented in the product. So selling "1 DR Pack per socket" is just a sales mechanism which assumes a 10-VM density per socket. Hope that helps!

[enrique.frisoli]

Hi All!
I have a customer with rental license, (for 60 VMs to VBR), and he would like get VRO to be used with 25VMs on recovery plans.
My questions is if he need to license Veeam One too (for 25VMs), or if the VRO license include the Veeam One license embedeed.

Thanks!