Veeam Availability Suite - Subscription - 1 Socket

Experience enterprise-grade data protection, fast recovery, and comprehensive monitoring with the Veeam Availability Suite - Subscription for 1 Socket. This subscription unlocks a powerful combination of backup, replication, and proactive IT monitoring designed to safeguard virtual, physical, and cloud workloads. Ideal for organizations seeking predictable licensing, scalable protection, and simplified management, the 1-Socket subscription delivers reliable availability across your entire IT estate while keeping operational costs transparent and controllable. Whether you are protecting a small virtualization environment or preparing for a wider hybrid cloud strategy, this offering provides the essential tools to minimize downtime, accelerate recovery, and maintain compliance in a rapidly changing business landscape.

• Unified protection across environments: Protect your virtual machines in VMware and Hyper-V, physical servers, and cloud workloads with a single, cohesive solution. The Veeam Availability Suite combines backup, replication, and restore capabilities to ensure rapid recovery from any disruption, whether due to hardware failure, ransomware, or human error. This unified approach simplifies administration, reduces the need for multiple point products, and streamlines recovery workflows across hybrid architectures.
• Powerful monitoring and analytics with Veeam ONE: In addition to backup and recovery, the suite includes Veeam ONE for real-time monitoring, reporting, capacity planning, and proactive alerts. You gain clear visibility into performance, storage usage, and backup health, enabling IT teams to anticipate bottlenecks, optimize resource allocation, and maintain service levels without guesswork. This proactive monitoring helps prevent outages and supports data-driven decision making.
• Flexible deployment and scalable licensing: The subscription is designed for scalability as your environment grows. Start with 1 Socket and easily expand to cover additional hosts or workloads as needed, with predictable renewal cycles and licensing that aligns with your operational budget. This flexibility makes it suitable for small to mid-sized businesses planning gradual expansion or larger organizations adopting phased virtualization or hybrid cloud migrations.
• Advanced data protection features for fast recovery: Leverage instant VM recovery, instant file-level recovery, and efficient replication to minimize downtime during disasters or outages. With SureBackup and SureReplica, you can automatically verify recoveries and test DR plans, ensuring that your recovery procedures work when they are most needed. The technology emphasizes rapid restoration while maintaining data integrity and accuracy.
• Security, compliance, and data residency: The solution supports encryption in transit and at rest when combined with appropriate repositories and storage configurations. Role-based access control and secure authentication help protect sensitive backup data, while integration with cloud repositories, object storage, and tape options enables compliant data retention strategies with multi-site coverage.

Technical Details of Veeam Availability Suite - Subscription - 1 Socket

• License type: Subscription
• Scope: 1 Socket
• Included components: Veeam Backup & Replication; Veeam ONE (monitoring and reporting)
• Supported virtualization platforms: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Environments protected: Virtual machines, physical servers, workstations, and cloud workloads
• Core capabilities: Backup, replication, disaster recovery planning, instant recovery, SureBackup, SureReplica, WAN acceleration, encryption, deduplication, and scalable architecture
• Security features: Role-based access control; encryption in transit; optional encryption at rest through repository configurations
• Storage and repositories: Support for local, network-attached, object storage, and cloud repositories; integrates with Cloud Connect, tape, and tiered storage scenarios

how to install Veeam Availability Suite

• Step 1: Prepare your environment. Verify hardware recommendations, operating system compatibility, and network connectivity between the Veeam components, backup proxies, and repositories. Ensure you have the necessary permissions and firewall rules configured for agentless and agent-based protection as required by your environment.
• Step 2: Obtain your license key. Access your subscription or licensing portal to obtain the Veeam Availability Suite license key for 1 Socket. Keep the key secure, as you will use it during installation to activate the product.
• Step 3: Download and run the installer. Launch the Veeam Availability Suite installer and select the components you need, typically Veeam Backup & Replication as the core engine and, optionally, Veeam ONE for monitoring. Follow the on-screen wizard to install prerequisites and the selected modules on the appropriate servers.
• Step 4: Activate and configure the license. Enter the subscription license key when prompted to activate the product. Configure initial settings such as backup repository locations, proxy servers, and credentials for protected machines.
• Step 5: Add protected endpoints. Discover and add virtual machines, physical servers, and cloud workloads to the protection plan. For virtual environments, configure proxies and transport modes to optimize performance and minimize impact on production workloads.
• Step 6: Create backup and replication jobs. Define backup jobs with retention policies, scheduling, and application-aware processing to ensure consistent restores. Set up replication for disaster recovery testing and rapid failover, including test failover plans where required.
• Step 7: Enable monitoring with Veeam ONE. If you have chosen to include Veeam ONE, configure dashboards, alerts, and capacity planning reports to gain ongoing visibility into backup health, storage usage, and system performance.
• Step 8: Establish DR testing and verification routines. Implement SureBackup and SureReplica tests to automatically verify recoveries and ensure the DR environment is ready for activation at any time.
• Step 9: Harden security and governance. Apply RBAC, define user roles, configure encryption, and implement retention policies to meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements.

Frequently asked questions

• What does the 1 Socket subscription cover? The 1 Socket subscription licenses protection for a single physical CPU socket and includes access to Veeam Availability Suite components (Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE) under a subscription model. This licensing is designed for scalable growth, allowing you to expand coverage as your environment grows while keeping renewal cycles predictable.
• Which environments can I protect? The solution provides protection for virtual machines running on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as physical servers and cloud workloads. It enables a unified approach to data protection across hybrid environments, simplifying management and recovery processes.
• Is cloud backup supported? Yes. The suite supports backups to cloud storage, object storage, and cloud repositories, enabling off-site protection and disaster recovery options for scalable data protection beyond on-premises storage.
• What about disaster recovery testing? The platform includes automated testing capabilities (SureBackup and SureReplica) to verify recoveries and DR readiness without impacting production workloads. This helps validate recovery procedures and ensures you can meet recovery objectives during an actual incident.
• Can I upgrade or add sockets later? Yes. The subscription model is designed to be scalable. You can add sockets or expand coverage by purchasing additional licenses or upgrading the subscription to accommodate more hosts and workloads as your environment grows.
• What kind of support comes with the subscription? Support terms typically align with your selected licensing plan and contract. Check with your vendor or licensing portal for specific service levels, updates, and response times included with your subscription.