[Feature request] quota the number of licenses for B&R servers in Enterprise Manager.

[necroic]

Good afternoon!
There are several geographically separated offices in our infrastructure.
We would like to use our own Backup and Replication server in each of them, combined by Veeam Enterprise Manager.
However, we cannot do this without the functionality of quoting the number of licenses allocated by Enterprise Manager to each of the servers.
We are afraid to face a situation when system administrators of one of the offices, adding extra servers to the backup task, use more licenses than planned for them.

[Dima P.]

Hello Victor,

You can add multiple Veeam B&R servers to a single Enterprise Manager to centrally manage and distribute license. Whenever license counters are exceeded Enterprise Manager detects such situation and reports / notifies you that license must updated or renewed, however your backup jobs will continue to work properly. Whenever it happens you can either adjust the specific backup server job configuration (limit the license usage by removing the unwanted hosts from processing) or update your current license to cover the new workloads. Thank you!

[necroic]

Dima P., Hello!
Thank you for the information!
However, as I understand it, there may be a situation that colleagues in one office have added unnecessary servers to the backup task, and I receive unnecessary notifications in the mail or I cannot add new servers to my tasks.
I have 18 offices with a time difference of up to 9 hours. Sometimes, I may encounter direct insubordination or inattention to my requests. As a specialist of a management company, I need this tool.
That's why, in some cases, I need the opportunity to use strict restrictions.

Due to the fact that there is no possibility to restrict the use of licenses now, I have to use the functionality of a Proxy server + repository in offices, instead of using a full-fledged server.

[veremin]

What license are you planning to distribute? Rental one by any chance? If so, take a look at the report Dmitry's mentioned. It does have information on how instances are distributed among backup servers.

Also, for one month new workloads will not consume license instances. During this period you will be able either to remove workloads from processing or buy a bigger license.

Thanks!

Thanks!

[necroic]

Vladimir, Hello!
Thank you for the information, I will get acquainted!
As I wrote above, I may need strict restrictions.
The staff is very different in competence and initiative )