
The marketing machine at Veeam would have you believe this is a great thing and possibly a money saver as well as getting better value from your existing Veeam investment, which to a degree is true. All Rights Reserved.When Veeam Backup and Replication 9.4 U4 was released in January 2019, it brought with it a new licensing model called Instance licensing. Protected Virtual Instance in the License Summary Report The following types of data are excluded from the usage calculation: If you apply this license on a CommCell environment where capacity licenses are also applied, Virtual Server Agent jobs and Kubernetes jobs do not count toward capacity, and cause the capacity usage to decrease.

Usage can decrease by removing existing virtual machines or Kubernetes applications from the subclient content and by running full backup jobs or synthetic full backup jobs. Usage can increase because of any of the following actions:Īdding new virtual machines or Kubernetes applications to the subclient content.Įnabling backup activity on the subclient with virtual machines or Kubernetes applications as content. The software counts the last successful full or synthetic full backup. Included DataĬounts all virtual machines (with unique CommCell IDs and protected by active subclients) for all supported hypervisors and all Kubernetes applications that were successfully backed up. The following data is included in the usage calculation for Protected Virtual Instances. Software Upgrades, Updates, and Uninstallation >Ĭommvault for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) > User and User Group Permissions Report Overview > Restore Job Summary Report on the Web Console > License Types in the License Summary Report > VM Sockets in the License Summary Report > Virtual Operating Instances in the License Summary Report > Usage Calculation for the Protected Virtual Instances License

Protected Virtual Instances in the License Summary Report > Operating Instances in the License Summary Report HyperScale Storage in the License Summary Report Viewing the License Summary Report on the Web Consoleĭata Views for the License Summary Report >Ĭonsolidation Rules for Purchased and Used Virtualization Instances (VOI) in Licensing ReportsĪctivate E-Discovery for Email/Cloud AppsĪctivate Sensitive Data for Email/Cloud AppsĪpplication Users in the License Summary Report >Ĭapacity Types in the License Summary Report >Įndpoint Users in the License Summary Report >įile Storage Optimization in the License Summary Report Viewing the License Summary Report on the Command Center Multisite Conflicting Array Information Report > Amazon RDS Snapshot Backup Tracking Report >
