This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.Licensing for Service Providers
Veeam Cloud & Service Providers (VCSPs) use rental licenses in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. Veeam Software provides VCSPs with the following types of rental license:
- Veeam Cloud Connect service provider license. Technically, the Veeam Cloud Connect service provider license is the rental license with the Cloud Connect Provider = Yes field in the license key file. The SP uses this type of license on the SP backup server. The SP must not install this license on tenant backup servers. To learn more, see Veeam Cloud Connect Scenarios.
- Rental license itself. The regular rental license contains the Cloud Connect Provider = No field in the license key file. The SP uses this type of license on tenant backup servers in the Backup as a Service (BaaS) scenario. To learn more, see Backup as a Service Scenario.
To enable the Veeam Cloud Connect functionality, the SP must install the Veeam Cloud Connect service provider license on the SP backup server. The SP can use the Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructure to provide the following services to tenants:
- Repository as a Service (Veeam Cloud Connect Backup) to tenants who have Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux deployed and want to back up and/or copy machines to the cloud. In this case, Veeam products on the tenant side may have any type of paid license installed. To learn more, refer to the product documentation on Veeam Help Center.
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (Veeam Cloud Connect Replication) to tenants who have Veeam Backup & Replication deployed and want to replicate VMs to the cloud. In this case, Veeam backup servers on the tenant side may have any type of paid license installed in Veeam Backup & Replication. To learn more, see the Types of Licenses section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
SPs can also provide Backup as a Service to tenants who want to back up virtual or physical machine data and do not intend to manage Veeam backup infrastructure on their own account. In this case, the SP deploys Veeam Backup & Replication and/or Veeam Agents on the tenant side, configures and manages backup and replication jobs and charges tenants for processing tenant machines. In the Veeam products on the tenant side, the SP must install a rental license for the total number of instances for workloads that the tenant plans to protect.
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