What is Veeam Backup Essentials?

Veeam^® Backup Essentials^™ delivers powerful, affordable and easy-to-use backup, recovery, monitoring and reporting for virtual workloads, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV, as well as physical and cloud workloads.

People also ask, what is the maximum number of sockets per customer in Veeam Backup Essentials?

Veeam Backup Essentials Sold by bundles of 2 Sockets and up to 6 Sockets (3 bundles) maximum per License Key.

Additionally, why does Veeam backup and replicate? Veeam Backup & Replication™ delivers powerful and reliable data protection capabilities that scale effectively for cloud, virtual and physical workloads for all major platforms and enterprise applications.

Herein, how does Veeam license work?

With the per-socket licensing model, Veeam Backup & Replication is licensed by the number of CPU sockets on protected hosts. A license is required for every occupied motherboard socket as reported by the hypervisor API. License is required only for source hosts — hosts on which VMs that you back up or replicate reside.

Is Veeam Backup Free?

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE — built on technology introduced in Veeam Endpoint Backup™ FREE — is a simple, FREE standalone agent that delivers Windows backup and recovery for physical PCs and laptops running on premises, in home offices or in the hands of mobile users — as well as for Windows computers

How much does Veeam cost?

Looking at Veeam Backup and Replication Standard, it's $42.50 per VM per year, so $552.00 /yr. for 13 VMs. Even better, Veeam Backup Essentials is $127.50 /yr for 5 VM bundles, so 3 bundles is $382.50 /yr. for 15 VMs.

Can you use Veeam to backup a physical server?

Backing Up Physical Machines. To back up physical machines, Veeam Backup & Replication uses Veeam Agents: Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux. You do not need to install, set up and operate Veeam Agent on every machine whose data you want to protect.

What does Veeam stand for?

virtual machine

What is included in Veeam Availability Suite?

Features and capabilities Veeam® Availability Suite™ delivers Availability for ALL workloads — virtual, physical and cloud — from a single management console. It helps organizations meet today's service level objectives for virtual, physical and cloud-based environments, including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.

What will happen if your Veeam Backup & Replication license expires?

When the license expires, Veeam Backup & Replication behaves in the following way depending on the license type: Evaluation and NFR licenses: Veeam Backup & Replication will stop processing workloads. Paid licenses: Veeam Backup & Replication will switch to the grace period.

What is Veeam Agent for Windows?

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical and virtual machines. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can be used to protect different types of computers and devices: desktops, laptops and tablets.

What is Veeam availability orchestrator?

Veeam® Availability Orchestrator enables IT organizations to deliver the non-stop operations and business acceleration required by today's business with reliable and simple-to-use backup and disaster recovery (DR) orchestration, automated testing and assured compliance.

What hypervisors does Veeam support?

Veeam Backup & Replication is a proprietary backup app developed by Veeam for virtual environments built on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The software provides backup, restore and replication functionality for virtual machines, physical servers and workstations as well as cloud-based workload.

How much does Veeam Backup and Replication cost?

Pricing and packaging

VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION — MSRP PriCing	standard	ENTERPRISE PLUS
10 INSTANCE LICENSES — Licensed per-Instance 3-year subscription, sold in bundles of 10 Instances Save 20% vs. 1-year term Includes Production 24x7 support	$400 USD per year	$1,200 USD per year

How do I get a Veeam license?

You can obtain an Evaluation or paid license for the product when you download the product from the Veeam website.

Obtaining License

Sign in to Veeam.
On the Download Veeam products page, click the product link.
In the Get trial key section, click the Request Trial Key link to download the Evaluation license.

What is a veeam perpetual license?

Per-socket perpetual licensing is still an option for customers who need to protect VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V workloads on-premises. To continue using your Veeam products with a VUL subscription, simply renew your VUL licenses prior to the expiration of your current term.

What level of recovery can you achieve with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL?

Fast, transaction-level recovery for SQL Server With agentless transaction log backup and replay¹, you can quickly perform point-in-time restores of your Microsoft SQL Server databases — down to an individual transaction — achieving Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) of < 15 minutes.

Is veeam part of VMware?

Veeam Backup & Replication is a powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable backup and availability solution that supports VMware vSphere virtual environments. It provides fast, flexible, and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data, bringing VM backup and replication together in a single software solution.

Does Veeam work with Hyper V?

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ 9.5 delivers Availability for all your virtual, physical and cloud-based workloads, including fast, reliable Microsoft Hyper-V backup, recovery and replication for virtualized environments running on a Windows Server (including Windows Server 1803).

What is VM backup?

VMware backup is the copying of data on a virtual machine (VM) in a VMware environment to prevent data loss. VMware-specific backup tools from companies such as Veeam and Vizioncore are emerging that address file-level restore.

Who are Veeam competitors?

The top 10 competitors in Veeam's competitive set are Commvault, Acronis, Cohesity, Veritas, Rubrik, Datto, Druva, Zerto, Dell EMC and Carbonite. Together they have raised over 2.3B between their estimated 128.7K employees.

What is the top advantage of Acronis Backup over products from Veeam?

Minimize downtime with proactive ransomware protection Veeam can only restore your data from backup if those files were not encrypted, too. Acronis averts the risk of downtime caused by 99.99 percent of both known and never-before-seen ransomware strains.

Can I install Veeam on virtual machine?

You can install Veeam on a VM or a physical system -- the best solution just depends on your virtual environment. If you have a large- scale VMware of Hyper-V virtual environments with production servers heavily loaded we usually recommend installing Veeam on a physical machine.