Veeam B&R "Enterprise Plus" licensing on 2 ESXi

[zadrian]

I have a unique situation where I have HQ & 2 remote sites (Site-A & Site-B). We have Veeam Enterprise Plus (surebackup, surereplica, WAN accelerator) licensing and now needs renewal. We have reduced socket count with new servers (using single "16 core" socket instead of older dual "4 core" sockets).

As there is only 1 mission critical VM in each remote site but we have 2 ESXi hosts in each remote site for redundancy in case we need to update ESXi, update firmware or service the servers (failures such as HDD or PSU failures etc).

HQ (5 ESXi, Dual sockets each) - 10 Licenses
Site-A (2x ESXi Single Socket each) - License count ?
Site-B (2x ESXi Single Socket each) - License count ?

[foggy]

With all the license-related requests it is always recommended to contact the sales representatives directly. Thanks!

[Vitaliy S.]

You need to license hosts you're planning to back up VMs from. If you have stand-by ESXi hosts that are not hosting any VMs you back up, then you don't need to license those. Once these ESXi servers start hosting production workloads, Veeam B&R will assign a license key to these hosts. Thanks!

[Origin 2000]

If youre using CPU/Socket based licensing than you need to license every Host Veeam have to "read" Data from which means if a VM is running on and you wanna backup. If you implement something like a Hot Standby Hosts you need to adjust Veeam licensing after an HA event occur or when you have moved a VM. This is be done by revoke the license for a Host within the Veeam software. Reasign will be automaticly as long as there in one available.

If youre licensing by "Instance" than only the number of Instances (VM, phys. Server/PCs) needs to be licensed. This can be interesting if you have a low consolidation ratio which mean only a view VMs but large number of Hosts/CPUs.

Yes you can convert CPU/Socket based licensing to Instance based by asking your local Veeam partner/sales guy.

Regards,
Joerg