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Types of Licenses

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Veeam Software offers the following types of paid licenses for Veeam Backup & Replication:

Perpetual license — a permanent full license. The perpetual license term is normally 10 years from the date of license issue. The support and maintenance period included with the license is specified in months or years. Typically, one year of basic support and maintenance is included with the perpetual license.

With the perpetual license, Veeam Backup & Replication can be licensed per-socket or per-VM.

Subscription license — a full license that expires at the end of the subscription term. The subscription license term is normally 1-3 years from the date of license issue.

With the subscription license, Veeam Backup & Replication can be licensed per-socket only.

Rental license — a full license with the license expiration date set according to the chosen rental program (normally 1-12 months from the date of license issue). The rental license can be automatically updated upon expiration.

With the rental license, Veeam Backup & Replication can be licensed per-VM only.

Types of Licenses Important!

Please note that per-VM licenses are provided to Veeam Cloud & Service Provides (VCSPs) only. For end-users, Veeam offers per-socket licenses.

The following terms apply to Veeam Backup & Replication paid licenses:

License Type	Licensing Period	Grace Period	Licensing
Perpetual license	10 years	n/a	Per socket/per VM
Subscription license	1-3 years	30 days	Per socket
Rental license	1-12 months	60 days	Per VM

In addition to paid licenses, Veeam Backup & Replication offers two types of free licenses:

Trial license — a full license that can be used for product evaluation. The trial license is valid for 30 days from the moment of product download.

NFR license — a full license that can be used for product demonstration, training and education. The person to whom the license is provided agrees that the license is not for resell or commercial use.

Licensed Objects

Veeam licenses Veeam Backup & Replication in two ways:

By the number of CPU sockets on managed hosts VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V servers or hosts. A license is required for every occupied motherboard socket as reported by the hypervisor API.

License is required only for source hosts — hosts on which VMs that you back up or replicate reside. Target hosts (for replication and migration jobs) do not need to be licensed.

By the number of protected VMs. You must obtain a license for the total number of VMs that you plan to back up, replicate, copy or for which you plan to create VeeamZIP files. VMs processed with backup copy and tapes jobs are not regarded as protected VMs — these types of jobs provide an additional protection level for VMs that are already protected with backup jobs.

Veeam Backup & Replication keeps track of the number of protected VMs. If the number of protected VMs exceeds the number of licensed VMs, Veeam Backup & Replication will display a warning when you open the product console.

For more information, see https://www.veeam.com/backup-licensing-faq.html.