

Poster “pirx” on the Veeam Community Forum complained of “a massive price increase (6 digit) due to the higher subscription renewal fee” and said there was a high frustration level about it.

Veeam wants to phase out socket-based licensing. An instance is a unit or token of Veeam software workload capacity that is used in subscription pricing. Such instance licensing was also used for Veeam public-cloud-based services.

Veeam products could also be licensed using a Veeam Instance Licensing (VIL) arrangement. Socket-based licensing Veeam users are getting alarmed about Veeam Universal License Perpetual costs amidst Veeam’s plans to phase out socket-based licenses.Ĭertain Veeam data protection products, such as Veeam Backup & Recovery and the Veeam Availability Suite, could be licensed per socket and on a perpetual basis in the past.
