What license needed to use Instant Recovery for Agent backed-up servers?

[Tijz]

Hi All,

We are looking to use Veeam Agent combined with the 'Instant Recovery' functionality to migrate about 60 servers from an IaaS provider to our VMWare cluster. (We can't connect to the IaaS Providers vmware back-end, so Veeam Agent seems to be the easiest solution).

At the target site we have a VMWare cluster. So we plan to setup a Veeam B&R Server on the target site, and backup all those IaaS servers to a repository on the target site. We than plan to use the 'Instant Recovery' option to start the VM's on the target VMWare cluster from the backup repo, and then migrate them of to the production datastore.

We have a rental agreement with Veeam, so we planned to 'rent' enough extra VUL's to backup 60 servers with Veeam Agent for Windows Server for a month or two.
My question: do we only need a Windows Agent for Windows Server license for each of those servers? Can we make use of the 'Instant Recovery' option with that license alone? Or do we need addidional licensing to configure the target VMWare Cluster and use Instant Recovery?

Thanks for any insights!

[Mildur]

For a restore, you don‘t need additional licenses.

If you want to backup this vms after the migration, they will need a license for the backup.

[Tijz]

Hi Mildur,

Thanks for quick reply and confirmation! That's what we thought but It seemed too small a price to pay for such great feature, but now I think of it using Veeam Replication (were it possible) would even have been cheaper.

And yes, in the end we plan to backup those VM's as well, but not with this 'temporary veeam environment' we will only use during the migration, and thus need minimum licensing.

Thanks again!

[Mildur]

If you can do the migration until the end of month and revoke the license, they don't have to be reported. I'm not sure, if this is allowed, but until a new full month is started, rental licenses are in a trial mode

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

To provide more flexibility and introduce a trial period for tenant workload processing, Veeam Backup & Replication offers the concept of new workloads. New workloads are workloads that were processed for the first time within the current calendar month. For example, Veeam Backup & Replication processes 7 machines in November. In December, Veeam Backup & Replication processes the same 7 machines plus 2 new machines. In December, these 2 machines are considered as new workloads.