Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription | 1 Socket Hybrid Data Protection

Experience unmatched availability with Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription, a comprehensive data protection platform tailored for hybrid environments. This 1-socket license combines powerful backup and replication with advanced monitoring and analytics to safeguard virtual, physical, and cloud workloads. Designed for enterprise workloads that span on-prem data centers, remote sites, and public clouds, it delivers fast recovery, simplified operations, and scalable protection with predictable licensing. Embrace a unified approach to availability that reduces downtime, strengthens security, and simplifies management across your entire IT estate.

• Comprehensive hybrid data protection: Protect virtual machines, physical servers, and cloud workloads across on-premises data centers, remote offices, and public clouds with a single, integrated solution. The architecture enables centralized policy-driven protection, cross-site replication, and streamlined recovery processes, ensuring your most critical systems stay online even in the face of failures. With built-in support for major virtualization platforms and cloud services, you can manage all protections through one console, reducing complexity and enabling faster, more reliable recovery across your entire environment. Automated verification through SureBackup confirms recoverability without impacting production workloads, giving you confidence when it matters most.
• Enterprise-grade backup and fast recovery: Benefit from instant VM recovery, granular item recovery, and image-based backups that preserve application-consistent states. Automated test restores validate recoveries before a disruption occurs, while replication to secondary sites provides near-instant failover for disaster scenarios. The solution supports granular restores for files, emails, and databases, enabling precise data recovery without unnecessary downtime. With scalable backup windows, deduplication, compression, and WAN-optimized transfer, you can protect larger datasets more efficiently and meet strict service-level objectives with confidence.
• Integrated monitoring and analytics: Leverage Veeam ONE to monitor your entire environment, generate capacity planning reports, and receive proactive alerts. This single pane of glass eliminates the need to juggle multiple tools, enabling IT teams to spot bottlenecks, forecast growth, and optimize resource utilization. Real-time dashboards, historical performance insights, and automated reporting help with budgeting, capacity planning, and compliance. Integration with ticketing and ITSM workflows accelerates incident response and ensures that protection remains aligned with business priorities.
• Flexible, predictable licensing: Enterprise Subscription for 1 Socket provides predictable annual costs, access to product upgrades during the term, and simplified license management for growing environments. The licensing model scales with your needs, allowing you to add sockets or hosts through straightforward upgrades while maintaining continuous access to updates, support, and new features. This approach minimizes license sprawl and reduces administrative overhead, letting your team focus on protecting data rather than managing licenses.
• Security, compliance, and reliability: Built-in security features, including encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, and tamper-resistant backups, help safeguard data against threats and accidental modification. Immutable backups, WORM retention options, and comprehensive audit trails support regulatory compliance and data governance across on-prem and cloud deployments. With automated verification, encryption, and flexible retention policies, you can meet stringent security requirements while delivering reliable, verifiable recoveries to stakeholders.

Technical Details of Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription

• License Type: Enterprise Subscription
• Socket Coverage: 1 physical CPU socket
• Product Components: Veeam Availability Suite combines Backup & Replication with Veeam ONE for comprehensive protection, monitoring, and analytics
• Supported Workloads: Virtual, physical, and cloud workloads with support for major virtualization platforms and cloud environments
• Key Capabilities: Backup, replication, instant recovery, SureBackup/SureReplica verification, application-aware processing, WAN acceleration, encryption in transit and at rest, and scalable retention options

How to Install Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription

Follow these guidelines to deploy quickly and safely. A well-planned installation reduces downtime and accelerates time-to-protection for your environment.

• Step 1 — Prepare your environment: Verify hardware and storage requirements, identify backup proxies and repositories, and plan network bandwidth for data movement between sites and clouds. Ensure you have an active Enterprise Subscription license and access to the Veeam installation media or your vendor portal. Review compatibility with your hypervisor versions and cloud integrations to avoid surprises during deployment.
• Step 2 — Install the core components: On a Windows server, run the Veeam Installer and select Backup & Replication along with Veeam ONE components. Follow the guided prompts to configure the initial service accounts, integrate with your vCenter or Hyper-V environment, and connect to your backup repositories. Opt for default settings when validating a first deployment, then refine extensively as you scale.
• Step 3 — Add backup infrastructure: Connect to your virtualization hosts, add storage repositories, and configure backup proxies to optimize data flow and processing. Establish a robust network topology that balances speed and security, and enable WAN acceleration where appropriate to optimize remote site backups and replication bandwidth.
• Step 4 — Set up protection groups and repositories: Create backup jobs for virtual machines, physical servers, and cloud instances. Define retention policies, schedule frequencies, compression levels, encryption settings, and verification tasks to align with your recovery objectives and compliance needs. Use role-based access controls to assign responsibilities across your team and enforce least-privilege access.
• Step 5 — Validate recoveries: Run test restores with SureBackup and establish automated verification tasks to ensure recoverability and compliance. Regularly test DR plans to confirm RPOs are achievable and that failover processes operate smoothly. Document recovery runbooks and integrate with your incident response workflows for maximum preparedness.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What is included in Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Subscription? A: It combines Veeam Backup & Replication with Veeam ONE for monitoring, reporting, and capacity planning, delivering end-to-end data protection and availability for hybrid environments. It is licensed per 1 socket as part of an Enterprise Subscription.
• Q: What workloads does it protect? A: It protects virtual machines, physical servers, and cloud workloads across on-premises data centers and public cloud environments, with support for leading virtualization platforms and cloud services.
• Q: What is the advantage of a 1-socket license? A: A 1-socket license covers protection for workloads running on a host with one CPU socket; it provides scalable coverage as your environment grows while keeping licensing simple and predictable.
• Q: Does it support instant recovery? A: Yes. Veeam Availability Suite includes instant VM recovery and granular restore options to minimize downtime and meet tight recovery objectives across your environment.
• Q: Is there built-in monitoring and reporting? A: Yes. Veeam ONE provides real-time monitoring, dashboards, capacity planning, and proactive alerts, all integrated with backup and replication workflows for proactive IT operations.
• Q: How do I upgrade or renew? A: Enterprise Subscription includes upgrades during the term and renewal options. Check with your vendor for exact terms, renewal windows, and access to the latest features and support.
• Q: Is data encrypted? A: Veeam supports encryption in transit and at rest; you can configure backup encryption and secure communication between components as part of your security policy.