CPU Licensing

[keurdange]

Hello,

I am new to veeam and I have veeam backup & replication.
I purchased 1 CPU license but applied it to the the server
which has actually 2 CPU.

I want to know what are the consequences for doing that.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[nielsengelen]

You'll need to upgrade the license to 2 sockets so you can correctly backup the infrastructure.

[DGrinev]

Hi and welcome to the community!

Basically, you wouldn't be able to backup any VMs on the host before the license upgrade. Thanks!

[keurdange]

Hi and thank you for your help,

Indeed, I can't backup. But there is a way to tell veeam to work only with 1 CPU? (Before I order the second license).
Or, I need absolutely to buy a second license before continuing?

(Sorry if my english was bad, I'm a french speaker).
Thanks again for your help.

[nielsengelen]

This is sadly not possible, just like in VMware you can't know which CPU is being used or not (in an easy way).

[keurdange]

Ok, thanks for your answer.

[DGrinev]

Sylvestre,

Have you already obtained 30-day free trial Veeam B&R license, if not, then use it until you upgrade the one you bought. Thanks!