VMC on AWS Licensing?

[lando_uk]

Hi

A simple question, can we use our existing perpetual socket licenses on AWS VMC? So a 8 host VMC cluster would require a 16 socket license?

Thanks

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi Mark.

Yes you can. Your statement is 100% correct. Cheers!

[Andreas Neufert]

Yes, however with perpetual socket licenses usage at VMC there is a quarterly manual task needed.
When VMware update their ESXi hosts once a quarter, they decided to recreate those hosts instead of updating them.
This lead to the situation that the new hosts are detected by Veeam as new hosts and you have to revoke the licenses for the old hosts.
VMware told me that they inform customers some days before and update.

Revoke licenses process in B&R (if no Enterprise Manager is used):
https://www.veeam.com/de/kb1470

Revoke license process if you have an Enterprise Manager:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4

Automation:
https://www.veeam.com/kb2235

With Instance or Universal licensing you license the VMs and their ID do not change => no manual action needed.

[lando_uk]

I've experienced this before on-prem. I wonder if Veeam could detect VMC hosts to mitigate against this by clearing out older, unused hosts automatically.

Revoking all hosts before each backup would also fix this.

[Andreas Neufert]

How could we detect this without monitoring the maintenance tasks?

It is not unusual that you increase the cluster with additional hosts and DRS place the VM there. It works as designed.

Instance or Universal Licensing is exactly build for that cloud use case, so that you can as well bring back the workload to on premises without additional licenses. This is the future for multi cloud environments.