Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription — 1 Socket Annual License

Experience uncompromising data availability with Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription for 1 Socket. This annual license delivers a complete, enterprise‑grade solution that combines intelligent backup, rapid replication, proactive monitoring, and powerful analytics. Protect virtual, physical, and cloud workloads with fast recoveries, continuous verification, and a centralized management plane that keeps your entire environment resilient, compliant, and easy to govern.

• Comprehensive data protection: Protects virtual machines, physical servers, and cloud workloads with integrated backup, replication, and disaster recovery capabilities, ensuring fast restores and minimal downtime across all environments.
• Veeam ONE for visibility: Includes advanced monitoring, reporting, capacity planning, and proactive alerting to maintain performance, optimize resource usage, and support capacity forecasting across your data center and cloud resources.
• 1 Socket, scalable licensing: An annual Enterprise subscription scaled for a single CPU socket, designed for predictable budgeting, easy procurement, and straightforward expansion as your needs grow across physical hosts and virtual environments.
• Fast recovery and testing: Instant VM recovery, granular restore options, automated backup verification with SureBackup, and tested failover orchestration to minimize downtime and safeguard recoverability in real‑world scenarios.
• Unified management: A single, intuitive console to configure, monitor, and report on backup, replication, and monitoring across on‑premises, virtual, and cloud resources, with role‑based access control and audit trails for security and governance.

Technical Details of Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription

• License model: Subscription
• License scope: Enterprise
• Socket: 1
• Included components: Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE for monitoring and analytics
• Deployment options: On‑premises, hybrid, and cloud environments
• Supported platforms: Windows and Linux servers; compatible with leading hypervisors and cloud targets
• License duration: 12 months

how to install Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription

Installing Veeam Availability Suite with an Enterprise subscription is designed to be straightforward, providing a streamlined path from license activation to a fully operational data protection environment. Use the following steps as a practical guide to deploy and configure the solution in typical environments. Adapt steps as needed to align with your organization’s policies and infrastructure.

• Prepare your environment: Verify hardware and OS compatibility for Veeam components, ensure sufficient storage capacity for backups and repositories, and confirm network connectivity between management servers, proxies, and backup targets. Review security requirements and plan user access roles to support governance and compliance.
• Obtain and activate the license: Retrieve your 1-socket Enterprise subscription license from your account portal, then run the Veeam Availability Suite installer on your designated management server. During setup, apply the license key to activate the Enterprise subscription and enable the features that align with your environment.
• Install core components: Choose the components you need—Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE—and install them on the appropriate servers. Configure initial settings such as credentials, service accounts, and firewall rules to ensure smooth operation across your data center.
• Configure backup infrastructure: Add backup proxies, repositories, and repositories targets suitable for your data volumes. Define proxies to optimize data processing, and establish scalable repositories to support growth and retention needs.
• Set up monitoring and analytics: Enable Veeam ONE, connect to virtual environments (such as VMware and Hyper‑V), and configure dashboards, alerts, and capacity planning reports. Establish monitoring thresholds to proactively identify risks before they impact workloads.
• Create protection jobs: Build backup and replication jobs with appropriate schedules, retention policies, application‑aware processing, and consistent testing. Set up SureBackup and periodic DR tests to verify recoverability and maintain compliance readiness.
• Test and validate: Run test restores and failover drills to confirm recovery procedures meet RTO/RPO targets. Validate data integrity post‑restore and adjust job settings to optimize performance and reliability.
• Governance and security: Implement role‑based access control, enable encryption for data at rest and in transit where applicable, and review audit trails to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What does the 1 Socket Enterprise Subscription cover? The license covers one physical CPU socket within your environment, enabling Veeam Availability Suite’s full backup, replication, monitoring, and analytics capabilities for that scope over a 12‑month term. It is designed to scale with your environment as you add sockets or expand workloads.
• Q: Can I protect both on‑premises and cloud workloads with this license? Yes. The Enterprise Subscription is intended to protect across mixed environments, including on‑premises, virtualized data centers, and supported cloud workloads, with configuration aligned to your architecture and licensing terms.
• Q: What kind of support is included? Support levels can vary by region and subscription tier, but typically include access to product updates, security patches, and technical assistance during the term of the license. Confirm exact support options with your Veeam account representative.
• Q: Is there a migration path if I need more sockets later? Yes. You can upgrade to additional sockets or a higher tier within the subscription program. Contact your account manager to discuss available options, pricing, and deployment timelines.
• Q: Do I need to renew every year? Yes. The Enterprise Subscription is a 12‑month term, after which renewal is required to maintain coverage, access the latest features, and continue receiving updates and support.