Hi Noah
Hi Moustafa
The licenses
can be combined.
Both license can be installed on the same vbr server. One exception would be veeam backup essentials. But Noah’s client is using VBR Suite. So they can be combined.
When you combine a socket license and a VUL, then all workloads on the managed hypervisor (vms, agents, plugins) will be processed by the socket license and all physical machine, cloud machines and Fileshares will be processed by the vul license.
This is documented
here and
here (chapter 1.5).
Important to note, when you combine your enterprise Suite and VUL license, you won‘t have the Enterprise Plus feature set. The edition will be forced by the socket license, which is a Enterprise Edition. Also your support level.
Q1. Is it possible to back up a VM when all socket licenses are used?
In presence of a socket license, all workloads from added hypervisors must use a socket license. Veeam cannot use a instance from the merged VUL when there are socket licenses installed. You must have enough Sockets for all hypervisor available or vms on new hypervisor host will not be backed up.
Q2. Will the universal license be deducted if VM backups are possible?
VUL Instances are not used for VMs, when there is a socket license installed.
If you need to backup vms on additional hosts, you have two options, buy additional socket license until June 30th 2022, or convert them to VUL.
Using a second VBR server just for VUL to backup the same hypervisor Environment would be against
Veeams license policy (Chapter 1.11).
The same production environment must use the same license terms to be protected. I‘m not sure if using VUL on another vbr server instead of socket licenses for the vms on the same vcenter and production storage would be allowed.
