For the existing offering (installable software for Windows) licensing remains unchanged in V13. Customers can continue using whatever license they are using today for their current V12 installation on Windows:
- Veeam Universal License (VUL)
- Rental license
- NFR license
- Legacy Socket-based license
- Community Edition
For the new offering (Veeam Software Appliance), only the following licenses can be used:
- Veeam Universal License (VUL)
- Rental license
- NFR license
For Veeam Essential licenses, initially VSA deployments will be supported only in a VM on any hypervisor supported by Veeam. Deployments on physical servers will not be supported due to the high cost and complexity of support cases that involve troubleshooting hardware-specific issues on non-Enterprise grade hardware smaller customers tend to use, as well as the sheer size of our Essentials customer base. Since this is intended to be a temporary limitation to help alleviate support load spike, we’re not enforcing it in the product itself but only with our Customer Support policies. In future, we plan to allow using any server hardware that achieves the “Veeam Ready – Appliance” certification also with Veeam Essentials.
If you own a legacy Socket-based license, please be aware that converting from Sockets to VUL is now easier than ever at the price of your maintenance renewal, and it enables the flexibility of a growing list of hypervisor and cloud alternatives, unstructured data and more.
- Veeam Universal License (VUL)
- Rental license
- NFR license
- Legacy Socket-based license
- Community Edition
For the new offering (Veeam Software Appliance), only the following licenses can be used:
- Veeam Universal License (VUL)
- Rental license
- NFR license
For Veeam Essential licenses, initially VSA deployments will be supported only in a VM on any hypervisor supported by Veeam. Deployments on physical servers will not be supported due to the high cost and complexity of support cases that involve troubleshooting hardware-specific issues on non-Enterprise grade hardware smaller customers tend to use, as well as the sheer size of our Essentials customer base. Since this is intended to be a temporary limitation to help alleviate support load spike, we’re not enforcing it in the product itself but only with our Customer Support policies. In future, we plan to allow using any server hardware that achieves the “Veeam Ready – Appliance” certification also with Veeam Essentials.
If you own a legacy Socket-based license, please be aware that converting from Sockets to VUL is now easier than ever at the price of your maintenance renewal, and it enables the flexibility of a growing list of hypervisor and cloud alternatives, unstructured data and more.
Statistics: Posted by Gostev — Sep 03, 2025 9:49 am
