[Licensing] What can I use "Instances" for ?

[Borg]

We have 10 socket-based VBR licenses that we allocated to ESXi servers by socket count.
All good so far.

Under Licensing in VBR administrative interface there are also 6 instance licenses available.
What can we use these for ?
We have some older servers that will be decommissioned but until then it would be good for them to be protected.
Can we allocate these "instance" licenses to physical servers and/or Hyper-V guests ?

[Mildur]

You can use them to protect your old server with Veeam Agent
It‘s not possible to protect your hyperv enviroment image based with that, because of the existing sockets.
But you can install the agent in your hyperv guest vms.

Veeam Agent Server - 1 instance per 1 agent
Veeam Agent Workstation - 1 instance per 3 agents

Veeam gives you a free instance per each socket, up to six.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Gifted instances also work for NAS backup, Application Plug-Ins (like Oracle RMAN or SAP HANA), Nutanix AHV and Cloud VMs protected by Veeam Backup for AWS/Azure.

So, pretty much for any workload except VMs on VMware\Hyper-V. In presence of a legacy socket license, those can only use the latter.

/Cheers!

[Borg]

Thank you for the clarifications.