This licensing model allows you to obtain a license with a certain number of instances without knowing in advance what types of workloads you plan to protect. The number of instances that a workload requires depends on the workload type and product edition. Every protected workload consumes instances from the license scope. Workloads that have been processed in the past 31 days are considered protected. You must obtain a license with the total number of instances for workloads that you plan to protect in Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, see Veeam Licensing Policy. Instances are units (or tokens) that you can use to protect your virtual, physical or cloud-based workloads. Veeam Backup & Replication can be licensed by the number of instances. You can restore VMs and data no matter how many free licenses you have or how many VMs you are restoring. Select one or more hosts, and then click Revoke to remove the hosts from the list and to return the sockets they were using to the pool of available licensed sockets.Veeam Backup & Replication consumes licenses only to back up data.

In the Registered Hypervisors list, you will find the hosts and licensed sockets used by them. You can withdraw a licensed socket from one host and allocate it to another, for example, if you want to switch from backing up the test hosts to the production hosts.įor this, in the Management Console of the virtual CFA: On the Settings tab, click Licenses in the Tools group.Ĭlick Advanced, and see the Registered Hypervisors list. Log in to the Management Console of the virtual CFA. To view the list of hosts using the socket license, and the licensed sockets used by those hosts: The number of virtual NICs used by the virtual CFA The number of virtual CPUs used by the virtual CFA The first time a VM is backed up from a host, the number of sockets needed to cover that host will be taken from the pool of available licensed sockets, and assigned to that host.Įmpty CPU sockets on the motherboard of an ESX or ESXi host

Backing up VMs from three hosts with two CPUs each, requires a license for six sockets. So, if you have an ESX or ESXi host with two CPUs each having four cores, it would require two sockets, not eight. The license is counted by CPUs, not by CPU cores. Infrascale socket-based licensing for the virtual Cloud Failover Appliances ( CFA) considers the number of populated CPU sockets in an ESX or ESXi host(s) being backed up. Allocate licensed socket to another host.Edit virtual machine client configuration.

Veeam socket licensing calculator