combining Veeam Essentials perpetual sockets and VUL

[JaySt]

i've got a situation of which i'm not sure how to proceed.
I've got a customer with a Veeam Essentials Enterprise bundle, 6 sockets licensed for 3 VMware hosts. It's required to backup a Windows Virtual Machine on a physical server outside of the VMware cluster licensed with ESXi free. Completely standalone.
Now, i have instances available in the license which i could use to license the agent, but i thought there were some license limitations being enforced (from v10 onwards?) when the agent is installed on a virtual machine with unlicensed physical sockets.

am i correct when saying this agent will not backups in this case?
If i am correct: What options to i have in this case? i cannot expand my socket licenses beyond the essentials socket limit of 6 and i cannot use the agent (with instance licenses) because of absence of the socket license for underlying hypervisor.

[veremin]

Now, i have instances available in the license which i could use to license the agent, but i thought there were some license limitations being enforced (from v10 onwards?) when the agent is installed on a virtual machine with unlicensed physical sockets

It applies only to virtual host already added to backup console. In your case the host is not added to backup server and there are no resources on it that are protected by VM backup job. So, you can easily install and back this machine up with agents.

Thanks!

[JaySt]

ah, so the key is to not add the hypervisor running the VM to the VBR console. I thought it was even a bit more restricted, but good that it isn't.

[veremin]

Yes, as long as the host is not added to backup console explicitly, you can back up VMs running on it through agents (as if they were physical machines) and do not face the said restriction. Thanks!