Licensing

[gingerdazza]

Hi. Having trouble getting licensing and pricing information from Veeam Sales, so would appreciate some information here:

1. For socket based licensing, do customers need to buy a socket based VDRO license for EVERY socket in the environment, even if say 50% of the infrastructure is non-production and doesn't require DR/orchestration?
2. Do customers have to pay for socket licenses on just protected hosts, or on protected and DR hosts?

[Mildur]

I don't see socket based licenses for VAO. VAO licenses are sold in 10er bundles (per VM).
From the license FAQ:

Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator is procured in two ways:

Via DR Pack, which is a packaging option where Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator can be added on top of a new or previous purchase of either Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication to ensure business continuity for all your VMs (not just the most-critical ones)!
Total number of purchased DR Pack licenses must match the total number of VMware vSphere VMs licensed in Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, please refer to our pricing or contact sales.


Standalone: you can also purchase Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator as a standalone offering for only your most-critical VMs. These licenses are available in one-to-five-year annual subscriptions.

[Alec King]

Hi, There are essentially two ways to buy purchase Veeam Orchestrator -
1. Packs of 10 Orchestrator licenses, as many as required
2. "DR Pack" deal, where you purchase Orchestrator licenses for your entire (VM) environment, at a large discount

There is no way to purchase socket-based licensing for Orchestrator - it is subscription only.

Here is the license FAQ on our website.

Hope that helps, any further questions please let us know. Thanks!

[gingerdazza]

Strange. I was directly told by a Veeam RM that...

"All New, and existing contracts at renewal of VDRO DR Pack must follow the below rules:
1) VUL-only environments: DR Pack license count must match the number of VUL licensed vSphere VMs (rounded up to nearest increment of 10);
2) Socket-based license only or Mixed VUL and Socket environments: 1 DR Pack (10) required per every CPU socket in the environment. No log file is required as we no longer track the Socket license density."

[Alec King]

Technically, VDRO is not licensed per-socket. This is not implemented in the product. So selling "1 DR Pack per socket" is just a sales mechanism which assumes a 10-VM density per socket. Hope that helps!