Veeam ONE

Veeam ONE provides monitoring and reporting for all Veeam Backup & Replication servers as well as virtualized infrastructure — VMware vSphere (including VMware Cloud Director) and Microsoft Hyper-V. This enables capacity planning, alerting, heatmaps, data protection insights, and more.

For Infrastructure as a Service environments, Veeam ONE can provide multi-tenancy for reporting and dashboards with RBAC. For Veeam Cloud Connect environments, it provides an additional subset of reports and monitoring insights.

For more information, see Veeam ONE User Guide.

Licensing

Veeam ONE is licensed per monitored workload. The license file can be generated and assigned to the Veeam ONE installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the Monitored Workload workload type in the Manage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam ONE section.

Each workload under monitoring consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit (PPU). Free license usage is available for specific workloads:

  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (monitoring/reporting). When you generate the license, the cost of the Microsoft 365 (10 users pack) license will be displayed as 2 PPU. When Veeam ONE generates the monthly license usage report, it automatically recalculates the cost of the license to 0 PPU.
  • Veeam Cloud Connect (monitoring/reporting). Performance monitoring and alerting displays jobs for Veeam Cloud Connect backup servers only including their latest state and performance statistics.
  • Microsoft Hyper-V servers (monitoring/reporting). Free license usage relates only to the server itself and does not include protected workloads.

For standalone licenses, the PPU values are listed in the table below.

Licensing

Workload Type

Point Per Unit (PPU)

Monitored Workload

2 points

Microsoft 365 (10 users pack)

Free

Veeam Cloud Connect Workloads

Free

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Free

Note

If you use Veeam ONE version 13 and later, you can select one of the following licensing options:

  • Upgrade to a Veeam Data Platform license. In this case, monitored workloads will be included in the Veeam Backup & Replication license usage and will not consume additional PPUs. For more information, see Veeam Data Platform.

Veeam ONE enables data collection and reporting automatically for all workloads protected by the Veeam Backup & Replication servers it is connected to. If only virtual infrastructure is being monitored (no backup servers are added to the Veeam ONE server), you can granularly control the license consumption using inclusion and exclusion rules for monitored VMs. For more information, see Veeam ONE User Guide.

Usage Reporting

A new license usage report is generated on the first day of each month. It includes the number of monitored workloads for the past month. Usage for these workloads can be tracked using the following counter names:

  • Virtual Machines
  • Cloud Instances
  • Workstation Agents
  • Server Agents
  • File Shares
  • Microsoft 365 (10 users pack)

The overall usage is submitted through the following counters: Monitored Workload and Microsoft 365 (10 users pack).

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data across IaaS as well as tenant Veeam ONE installations is Veeam Service Provider Console, an automated and free tool for license management and reporting. For integration with Veeam ONE use a dedicated plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. License usage will appear in the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.