Licensing

The Veeam Plug-In management functionality is licensed by the number of instances. Instances are units (or tokens) that you can use to protect your computers with Veeam Plug-Ins. If the license is not valid or out of resources, Veeam Plug-In backup jobs fail.

The number of instances that you can use depends on the type of license installed in Veeam Backup & Replication:

For Veeam Universal Licensing (VUL)

You can use Veeam Plug-Ins with all license packages (Veeam Backup Essentials, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Availability Suite).

Keep in mind that if you use the Rental license type, functionality of Veeam Plug-Ins is supported only for the Enterprise Plus edition of Veeam Backup & Replication.

For Perpetual Socket license

Functionality of Veeam Plug-Ins is supported only for the Enterprise Plus edition of Veeam Backup & Replication.

For the full list of license packages, see this Veeam webpage.

For more information on available license management operations, see Managing License.

Obtaining and Managing Licenses

For details on how to install a license and monitor licensed objects, see Licensing for Veeam Backup & Replication.