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sabicao
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licensing issue - VM's replicas are counted as instances??

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Hi, all.

I have a cluster with 2 hosts, then another standalone host, then a another host just to receive Hyper-V replicas from the cluster and the standalone host.
In the same host where I collect the replicas, I also have a bunch of live VMs.

Veeam is consuming license instances with those replicas, even though they have the same UUID and are obviously the same VM, and are not even being processed by any backup job.

This does not seem right to me, is there a way I can have replicated VMs not consuming these rather expensive licenses, please?
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Re: licensing issue - VM's replicas are counted as instances??

Post by Mildur »

Hi Fernando

Just to ask, are we talking about Hyper-V or Veeam replicas?
In both cases replicas do not have the same UUID as the original VM. A replica VM is a new VM with an new UUID, despite the same content on the virtual disk.
- As long as you protect only the source VM with a backup + replica job, one license is consumed.
- If you protect the source VM and the replica VM with a job, two licenses will be consumed.

Feel free to open a case with our support team if you feel something is not right.

Best,
Fabian
Product Management Analyst @ Veeam Software
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