Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus - Universal Subscription License

Protect your business with a scalable, SMB-friendly data protection solution that combines Veeam Backup Essentials with the Enterprise Plus feature set under a universal subscription license. This offering is engineered for small to mid-size organizations that demand reliable backup, fast recovery, and flexible deployment across physical servers, virtual infrastructures (VMware and Hyper-V), and cloud workloads. By unifying licensing into a Universal Subscription, you gain predictable budgeting, simplified license management, and uninterrupted access to enterprise-grade capabilities without the overhead of managing multiple contracts. Whether safeguarding critical virtual machines, file servers, or remote endpoints, this solution scales with your growth, delivering automated verification, streamlined operations, and robust protection against data loss and downtime.

• Comprehensive data protection across environments: Celebrate true flexibility with backup and recovery that spans virtual machines, physical servers, endpoints, and cloud workloads. This enables you to consolidate protection under a single, cohesive strategy, reducing complexity and ensuring consistent recovery objectives no matter where your data lives. With the Enterprise Plus features included, you gain advanced capabilities such as scalable storage orchestration, automated integrity checks, and efficient data movement between on-premises storage and cloud repositories. The result is faster restores, minimized downtime, and a reliable defense against ransomware and human error.
• Enterprise Plus features designed for reliability and speed: Leverage the power of Enterprise Plus to enable scale-out backup repositories, automated backup verification with SureBackup, near-continuous data protection workflows, and enhanced orchestration for disaster recovery. These capabilities help you validate recoverability, accelerate restoration times, and protect critical applications with granular restore options. You’ll experience streamlined management, tighter control over backup windows, and improved resilience for mission-critical workloads.
• Simplified licensing with predictable cost: The Universal Subscription License consolidates licensing into a single, easy-to-manage model that covers diverse environments. This approach reduces renewal churn, provides consistent access to the latest features, and supports flexible deployment as your infrastructure evolves. With one subscription you can protect multiple hypervisors, scale to additional hosts, and adjust capacity without renegotiating contracts, enabling clearer budgeting and faster time-to-value for your data protection strategy.
• Automation, orchestration, and ease of use: From automated backup job creation to policy-driven retention and replication, this offering emphasizes automation to cut manual tasks and reduce the risk of human error. Powerful APIs and scripting options allow your IT team to tailor protections, integrate with existing workflows, and automate routine testing. The result is a streamlined operational workflow that frees up time for strategic initiatives while maintaining rigorous data protection standards.
• Security, governance, and compliance readiness: Built-in security controls—including encryption for data in transit and at rest where supported by your storage—and robust access control help you meet governance requirements. Role-based access, audit-ready activity logs, and integrity checks contribute to a resilient security posture, ensuring that backups are trustworthy and recoveries are compliant with policies relevant to your industry.

Technical Details of Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus

• UPC / SKU: N/A
• License Type: Universal Subscription License
• Edition Included: Enterprise Plus
• Deployment Scope: Suitable for SMBs and mid-sized environments requiring unified protection across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud workloads
• Supported Workloads: Virtual machines (VMware/Hyper-V), physical servers, and cloud storage endpoints

How to install Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus

• Step 1: Prepare your environment by confirming system requirements and purchasing or activating the Universal Subscription License in the Veeam Licensing Portal. Ensure your virtualization hosts, storage repositories, and network connectivity meet the recommended specifications for optimal performance and reliability.
• Step 2: Install Veeam Backup & Replication on a supported Windows server or suitable designated server per your architecture. Follow the guided installer to set up the core components, including the backup server, proxies, and repositories, and ensure the service accounts used have the necessary permissions.
• Step 3: Add backup proxies and configure repositories. Define storage targets (on-premises storage, deduplicating storage, or cloud-backed repositories) and establish credentials for the virtualization platforms to enable agentless backups and efficient data transfer.
• Step 4: Integrate your environments and create backup jobs. Configure protection for virtual machines, physical servers, and endpoints, setting up appropriate retention policies, schedules, and application-aware backup settings to ensure consistent recoveries for mission-critical workloads.
• Step 5: Validate and automate recovery processes. Use built-in verification features (such as SureBackup) to test recoverability without impacting production systems, set up alerting and dashboards for ongoing monitoring, and implement disaster recovery workflows to minimize downtime in the event of an incident.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What is Veeam Backup Essentials with Enterprise Plus?
  A: It is a unified data protection solution designed for small to mid-size businesses that combines Veeam Backup Essentials with the Enterprise Plus feature set under a Universal Subscription License, enabling comprehensive protection across virtual, physical, and cloud workloads with enterprise-grade capabilities.
• Q: What environments does it protect?
  A: It protects virtualized environments (VMware and Hyper-V), physical servers, endpoints, and cloud workloads, with scalable options to accommodate growing IT footprints.
• Q: How is licensing managed?
  A: Licensing is managed via the Veeam Universal Subscription model, providing a single, flexible licensing framework that simplifies deployment across diverse environments and streamlines renewals.
• Q: Can I verify backups for recoverability?
  A: Yes. The solution includes automated verification tools (such as SureBackup) that validate recoverability of backups without disrupting production systems, giving you confidence in your DR readiness.
• Q: Is data encrypted?
  A: Backups can be encrypted in transit and at rest when supported by your storage and transport modes. Comprehensive access controls and audit trails further bolster security and compliance.