deletion of old VMs License instances behaviour

[SSSSSStorage]

Hi All,

I am struggling to find definitive answer to the behaviour when you delete VMs. we utilise tags in our vSphere environment, A bunch of VMs have been retired and deleted and thus are no longer in the backup jobs. Will there licence instances get removed after a certain period of time? we are not at our license threshold yet so its not currently an issue, but it will as we ramp up our backups. I understand I can remove these manually if required, however if there was some default values known that would greatly help, as we have not seen any reclaimed yet.

do backup copy jobs also claim a license even if its just moving the backup files around - either VBK > VBK or VBK > object?

[Mildur]

Hi T C

A license instance is automatically released 31 days after the last backup of a workload, assuming no new backups have been made within that period. You can manually revoke a license from a workload if needed. For example, if you are replacing an old VM with a new VM and you need to reuse the license instance immediately for the new VM.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Workloads that have been processed in the past 31 days are considered protected. Every protected workload consumes instances from the license scope. The number of instances that a workload requires depends on the workload type and product edition.

Workloads are only licensed once with their primary job. A backup copy job never consumes a license.

Best,
Fabian