We have Enterprise plus backup and replication for our onprem VMware servers. These are the perpetual licenses licensed by socket. The instance licensing here mentions 6 free agent licenses if I'm reading it correctly:
Perpetual licensing IS NOT going away! Continue using Perpetual, per socket, licensing for your VMs on premises. BONUS: We’re even going to give you up to 6 instances to kick the tires of Agents, Availability for AWS and more with no strings attached!
Is this for existing customers with active support agreements? Or just for news ones? If it's for old customers how do we claim this?
It's for every customer with a socket-based license. To claim, you just need to install Update 4. Please refer to the What's New document for more information (see Licensing section). Thanks!
just installed Update 4a, and just checked out our new 6 free instances... At first: thanks for that!
I now installed the Agent 3.0 on one server, enabled the automatic license consumption, and the server is now listed under the used instances. I can now use the licensed features of the client (create a second job...), but I cannot manage the client from the B&R server console - am I thinking wrong, or should this work?
Or what features exactly do I get with the licensed Agent?
thank you for you reply. I will look deeper into this.
Just one follow up question: at the moment, we have some Free Agents installed on 2 servers and a few clients, and I would like to use the free licenses to test the abilities of managed agents. Can I just "convert" an existing Agent installation into a managed installation? Will this create any disturbances on the target machine? And most important - since free and instance-consumed agents cannot be mixed in one environment: can I "reconvert" a managed agent into a standalone client if needed?
Note that 1 instance does not necessarily equal 1 agent. The licensing uses a multiplier factor based on the type of device and edition of VBR it is being managed by. An agent protecting a server being managed by a Standard edition of VBR will consume 3 instance licenses.
Hi mkaec,
yes, I saw that in the license window. We have the Enterprise license, and at the moment 5.5 of 6 instances are in use. For now this is all we need to backup, but who knows...
Hi Gostev,
do the 6 free agent licenses also apply to Service Providers? With SP's the licenses are not based on cpu sockets but backed up virtual machines (endpoints) ?
regards
Ross
If you have sockets in the license key, then gifted instances can be assigned to non-VM (vSphere/Hyper-V) workloads only. However, if you have just an instance-based key (for example, a rental key), then you can back up these VMs for sure.
It will be universal instances since the Veeam Instance Licenses evolved into Veeam Universal Licenses.
You can find pricing and packaging information here.
I understand now that the gifted VUL can't be used for virtual machine backup ( VMware / Hyper-V )
- Can existing socket licenses be combined with for example a 10pack of Veeam Universal Licenses that we purchase ?
- Can we use these purchased Veeam Universal Licenses for backing up VMware / Hyper-V virtual machines ?
2. Yes if backup server does not also have a socket license installed, otherwise no (as in presence of socket license, VM protection will consume sockets).