Managing Licensed Instances

After you add a Veeam Backup for Google Cloud appliance to the backup infrastructure, you can view the number of protected instances in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. You can also revoke license units from protected instances — this can be helpful, for example, if you remove a number of instances from a backup policy and do not want to protect them anymore.

Monitoring Licensed Instances

To view protected instances, do the following:

  1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the main menu and select License.
  2. In the License Information window, switch to the Instances tab.

The Instances tab displays the following information:

  • Type — the type of protected instances.
  • Cloud VMs — protected VM instances.
  • Cloud Databases — protected Cloud SQL instances.
  • Count — the number of instances.
  • Multiplier — the number of license units one instance consumes.
  • Instances — the total number of the consumed license units.

View license

Revoking License Units

You can revoke license units from protected instances and reapply them to other objects that you plan to protect:

  1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open the main menu and select License.
  2. In the License Information window, switch to the Instances tab and click Manage.
  1. In the Licensed Instances window, select a protected instance and click Revoke. Veeam Backup & Replication will revoke a license unit from the selected instance.

Revoke license