Veeam ONE • Re: unneeded licenses and excluded workloads

We had a customer in a similar situation and they had license bloat in Veeam ONE due to the Virtual Infrastructure part, not the VBR part. We worked with them to identify the sub-set of their virtual machines that they didn't want/need to monitor in Veeam ONE (e.g., x copies of their web front-end, their AD servers that they're monitoring with another system, etc.). Once we got that, we were able to add Exclusion filters to Veeam ONE on the Virtual Infrastructure side and that brought the numbers way down and within the licensing limit. We could have turned off the Virtual Infrastructure monitoring completely in Veeam ONE, but they did like to get some of the reports on snapshots and other things for their critical servers that their existing monitoring tool didn't catch, so it was useful. But, if you don't intend to use Veeam ONE to monitor/report on anything but your Backup Infrastructure, you can just add an Exclude All rule on your Virtual Infrastructure bits and then it will just monitor Veeam ONE.

Statistics: Posted by gcg — Jun 30, 2025 3:14 pm

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