Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus - Universal Subscription License

Protect your business-critical data with a comprehensive, scalable backup solution designed for small to mid-size environments. Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus delivers enterprise-grade data protection in a single, flexible Universal Subscription License, enabling you to safeguard virtualized workloads, physical servers, and cloud data across VMware and Hyper-V platforms. With powerful recovery options, automated testing, and centralized management, you can reduce risk, minimize downtime, and keep your operations resilient in the face of threats, outages, and human error.

• Unified protection for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads: Back up VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines, physical servers, endpoints, and cloud instances from a single, integrated console. This streamlined approach simplifies your protection strategy while delivering fast, reliable restores when you need them most.
• Enterprise Plus features for advanced recovery and testing: Access deep recovery capabilities, automated testing with SureBackup, and granular restore options that let you recover just what you need—whether it’s a single file, an application-level restore, or an entire VM. Validate recoveries without impacting production environments.
• Flexible Universal Subscription License: A single licensing model that scales with your business. Consume protection as needed, across on-premises and cloud resources, with simplified renewals and ongoing access to the latest features and enhancements.
• Centralized management and automation: A single, intuitive console to configure backup jobs, manage repositories, schedule testing, monitor job health, and generate actionable reports. Automate routine tasks to save time and reduce administrator overhead.
• Ransomware resilience and data security: Encrypt data in transit and at rest, support for immutable backups on compatible object storage, and role-based access controls that help guard against unauthorized changes. Protect backups from tampering and ensure data integrity.

Technical Details of Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus - Universal Subscription License

• Licensing model: Universal Subscription License that includes Enterprise Plus features, offering flexible capacity and renewal terms while enabling protection across multiple environments.
• Supported hypervisors: VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments are fully supported, allowing you to protect virtual machines with a consistent, high-performance data protection strategy.
• Backup sources: Image-level backups of virtual machines, physical servers, and endpoints; agent-based backups available for Windows and Linux workloads via Veeam Agents where needed.
• Backup targets: Local disks, network-attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), or cloud repositories. The solution supports a range of repository options to fit your infrastructure and budget.
• Recovery capabilities: Instant VM Recovery, granular file-level and application-item restores, database and Exchange-level restores, and SureBackup/SureReplica testing to verify recoveries before a production failover.
• Security and immutability: Data encryption in transit and at rest, integration with immutable storage options to protect backups from ransomware, and access controls to enforce least-privilege operations.

How to install Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus

• Prepare the environment: Confirm hardware prerequisites, ensure sufficient compute, memory, and storage capacity, and verify network connectivity between the Veeam backup server, hypervisors, and backup repositories. Review compatibility with your VMware or Hyper-V versions and update to supported builds.
• Deploy the Veeam Backup & Replication server: Install the Veeam backup software on a Windows server that meets the recommended hardware requirements. Use a dedicated server for best performance, or deploy in a virtual machine with adequate resources for your protected workload scale.
• Apply the Universal Subscription License: Activate and apply your Universal Subscription License within the Veeam console to enable Enterprise Plus features and ensure compliance with licensing terms.
• Configure backup repositories: Create and configure backup repositories (local, NAS, or cloud) where backup data will be stored. Ensure sufficient IOPS and throughput for the anticipated workload and retention period.
• Add protected hosts and workloads: Add VMware vSphere or Hyper-V hosts and individual virtual machines to the backup plan. For physical servers or endpoints, install Veeam agents where required so you can back up those systems efficiently.
• Create and tune backup jobs: Define backup jobs with appropriate schedules, retention policies, and application-aware processing for databases and Exchange. Enable compression and deduplication to optimize storage usage and performance.
• Enable validation and recovery testing: Configure SureBackup to automatically verify backup recoveries by launching test virtual lab environments. Regular testing helps reassure stakeholders and reduces risky deployments during actual failovers.
• Establish a disaster recovery plan: Map protecting tasks to a recovery objective, plan automated failover/failback scenarios, and document runbooks so your team can act quickly in an incident.
• Monitor and optimize: Use built-in dashboards and reports to monitor job status, storage utilization, and recovery SLAs. Refine retention, backup windows, and resource allocation to maintain optimal performance.

Frequently asked questions

• What is Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus? It is a bundled data protection solution designed for smaller environments that combines the core backup and replication capabilities of Veeam with Enterprise Plus features, delivered via a Universal Subscription License for flexible usage across on-premises and cloud resources.
• Who is it for? Best suited for small and mid-size businesses that require reliable backup, fast recovery, automated testing, and scalable protection without the complexity and cost of enterprise-scale licensing.
• What platforms are supported? The solution supports VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, along with agent-based protection for Windows and Linux endpoints where needed, all managed from a single console.
• What is included in the Universal Subscription License? The license covers the core backup and recovery features plus Enterprise Plus enhancements, with flexible policy terms that allow you to scale protection across environments as your needs change.
• Can I protect cloud and offsite data? Yes. You can back up to local repositories, remote NAS/SAN stores, or cloud repositories. It also supports offsite replication and cloud integration to enhance disaster recovery capabilities.
• How does SureBackup help? SureBackup automatically tests recoveries to verify that your backups are recoverable, reducing the risk of failed restores and providing confidence in your DR readiness.
• Is data encrypted and protected against tampering? Data can be encrypted in transit and at rest, and you can enable immutability on compatible object storage to protect backups from tampering and ransomware.
• What kind of support is included? Normal support provisions apply with the Universal Subscription License, with access to updates, upgrades, and technical assistance as part of the license terms.