Veeam licence and migration

[paccit]

Hi all,

I can see this has been asked before with different scenarios but some of the posts are quite old, so I don't know if things have changed.

Basically we have a physical VBR server with a 6 socket licence which covers 3 hosts in VSphere.

We have new VSphere infrastructure which also has 3 hosts (same number of sockets) as well as a new physical VBR server.

We will be slowly migrating VM's from one infrastructure to the other, so backups will need to occur on both which means there may be 2 weeks where the total socket count would be 12 between the two sets of infrastructure.

Would the existing licence be enough for the migration period seeing as there are 2 separate instances of VBR backing up different VM's on different hosts, or do we need some sort of interim licence?

thanks

jc

[Mildur]

Hello Paccit

Technically with two separate VBR server and a single license file this will work. Running this constellation for a migration window of 2-3 weeks will be ok from a licensing perspective.
If you plan to backup workloads from all 6 hosts over multiple months, you must call your Veeam partner or your Veeam sales representative to discuss the license requirements.

Best,
Fabian

[paccit]

Thanks Fabian. If the migration goes over multiple months that would mean we have a serious problem! Hopefully should be over within 2 weeks.