To work with licenses for backup servers added to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager:
- Log on to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager using an account with the Portal Administrator role.
- Open the Configuration tab.
- Open the Licensing section on the left of the Configuration view.
The upper pane of the Licensing section displays information on every installed license.
The following license management activities can be performed:
- To display detailed information about the current license, including type, expiration date, and so on, click to expand License info. The table below contains additional details - for example, if you have a per-host license, it will contain host name, type and number of CPU sockets for each virtualization host (VMware vSphere and Hyper-V) currently engaged in backup and replication jobs. To see the jobs in which the host is engaged, click the link in the Is Licensed column.
- If you have a per-VM license, the table will contain corresponding data for licensed virtual machines.
- For ad-hoc update of your license, click the Update now button. Veeam will connect to web license management portal to obtain a new key (data will be communicated securely using HTTPS).
- To schedule automatic connection with Veeam licensing server and periodically send requests for a new license, enable the Update license key automatically check box. With this setting enabled, Veeam will start requesting a new license weekly, and 7 days before current license expiration date - daily.
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If this option is enabled in Enterprise Manager (even if deactivated in the Veeam backup management console), automatic update will be performed anyway: Enterprise Manager will obtain a new key from Veeam licensing portal and propagate it to all managed Veeam backup servers. |
- To change a license (for example, from trial to full), click the Change license and select the necessary .LIC file. The new license will be applied to all connected Veeam backup servers automatically.
Veeam also supports a grace period after the license expiration date. For subscription license it lasts for 30 days, for rental license - 2 months. During this period Veeam Backup Service will be running, but a warning about license expiration (grace period) will appear in the main window and in the sessions information. After the grace period, if a new license has not been yet installed, Veeam Backup & Replication will switch to free functionality mode. For details, refer to Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide and to https://www.veeam.com/backup-licensing-faq.html.
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You can configure the e-mail notifications on license expiration, as well as on job sessions including corresponding warnings and errors. |
Statistics on the automatic license update process (License key auto-update job) is shown on the Sessions tab of the Configuration view after you click the corresponding link in the Log column.
Messages that can appear in the automatic license update session log are listed in the Appendix. (Similar messages are received as pop-ups after you force the immediate update.)
