Merging Licenses
Merging licenses is an option for customers who have a Perpetual Socket license. If you have a Perpetual Socket license, and want to also protect, for example, your cloud or physical workloads, or work with Veeam Plug-Ins, you can obtain an instance license and merge it with the socket license.
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Merging licenses is a built-in mechanism that allows you to merge two different license types (Socket and Instance). If you want to merge several licenses of the same type (Socket and Socket, Instance and Instance) to obtain a single license key file, you can use the merge tool in the Customer Portal. For more information on merging licenses in the Customer Portal, see this Veeam KB article. For more information on merge rules and exceptions for the Customer Portal merging process, see the License Key Merge section of the Veeam Licensing Policy. |
Under the merged license, the following workloads will consume a Socket license:
- VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V VMs
- Application servers protected by Veeam Plug-Ins (only for application servers running in VMs of a virtual infrastructure registered with Veeam Backup & Replication)
- VMs protected by Veeam Agents (only for VMs of a virtual infrastructure registered with Veeam Backup & Replication)
Other workloads are processed per instance.
License Types Available for Merging
You can merge licenses of the following types:
- Perpetual Socket license and Perpetual Instance license
- Perpetual Socket license and Subscription Instance license
- Subscription Socket license and Perpetual Instance license
- Subscription Socket license and Subscription Instance license
Rental, Evaluation, and NFR licenses cannot be merged.
License Packages Available for Merging
You can merge licenses of the following packages:
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You can merge an Instance license of any package except Essentials with a Socket license of any package. The packages do not have to match.
Support Terms in Merged Licenses
If the licenses that you want to merge have different support expiration date, the merged license will take the support that expires first.
Merging Licenses
Before you merge licenses, check the following prerequisites:
- The license types and packages allow merging.
- The company names are identical in both licenses. The company name check is case sensitive.
To merge licenses, install a new license over the already installed license. For more information, see Installing License.
If the license types allow merging but the packages are incompatible or the company names differ, Veeam Backup & Replication does not install the new license. The previous license remains.
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If the license types do not allow merging, the newly installed license will replace the previous license. If you install a new license over an already merged license, the new license replaces the section of the same type (Socket or Instance). The other section remains in the merged license. |
Splitting Licenses
To split licenses, contact Veeam Customer Support.