Veeam Rental Licensing and

Usage Reporting

Reference Guide
August, 2023
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Contents
CONTACTING VEEAM SOF TWARE ................................ ................................ ........................... 4
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT ................................ ................................ ................................ ..... 5
TE RMS AND DEFINITIONS ................................ ................................ ................................ .... 6
ABOUT RENTAL LICENSING ................................ ................................ ................................ .. 7
Rental Agreements and Licensing Terms ................................................................................................ 8
Pay-As-You-Go Pricing .......................................................................................................................... 9
Initial Contract Terms and Grace Periods .............................................................................................. 10
Expanded Usage Rights........................................................................................................................ 11
Portable Licensing ............................................................................................................................... 12
ABOUT LICENSE MANAGEMENT ................................ ................................ ............................ 13
License Types ......................................................................................................................................14
Automatic License Key Update .............................................................................................................16
Exceeding License Limit .......................................................................................................................18
Reducing License Usage .......................................................................................................................19
Automatic License Reporting ............................................................................................................... 20
TOOLS FOR LICENSING AND USAGE REPORTING................................ ................................ .........24
Using Veeam Service Provider Console ................................................................................................. 25
Using VCSP Pulse ................................................................................................................................ 27
LICENSING AND USAGE REPORTING FOR VEEAM PRODUCTS ................................ .......................... 29
Veeam Backup & Replication ............................................................................................................... 30
Virtual Machines ....................................................................................................................... 32
Veeam Agent Computers ........................................................................................................... 33
Public Cloud Workloads............................................................................................................. 35
NAS File Shares and NDMP Servers ............................................................................................ 37
Plug-ins for E nterprise Applications ........................................................................................... 39
Veeam ONE .........................................................................................................................................41
Veeam Cloud Connect for Service Providers ......................................................................................... 43
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator ............................................................................................................. 45
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 ......................................................................................................... 46
Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center ......................................................................... 48
Kasten K10 by Veeam ......................................................................................................................... 49

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Contacting Veeam Software
At Veeam Software we value feedback from our customers. It is important not only to help you quickly with your
technical issues, but it is our mission to listen to your input and build products tha t incorporate your
suggestions.

Customer Support
Should you have a technical concern, suggestion or question, visit the Veeam Customer Support Portal to open a
case, search our knowledge base, reference documentation, manage your license or obtain the latest product
release.

Company Contacts
For the most up-to-date information about company contacts and office locations, visit the Veeam Contacts
Webpage.

Online Support
If you have any questions about Veeam products, you can use the following resources:

• Full documentation set: www.veeam.com/documentation-guides-datasheets.html

• Veeam R&D Forums at forums.veeam.com

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About This Document
Veeam Rental Licensing and Usage Reporting Guide gives members of the Veeam Cloud Service Provider (VCSP)
partner program more detailed information about how Rental licensing works for various workloads within
Veeam Platform, how to manage licenses using Veeam Service Provider Console and VCSP Pulse, and how to
collect and report the license usage.

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Terms and Definitions
Term Definition

A Veeam distributor or specialized Veeam partner that sells VCSP rental licenses and
Aggregator
performs monthly billing of VCSP partners.

Managed service A partner who manages IT infrastructures reliably and effectively, regardless of where the
provider (MSP) customer’s workload resides.

A hosting service provider, cloud service provider or managed service provider that has
VCSP partner applied for the VCSP program, has been accepted by Veeam into the program and has
accepted the Veeam partner enrollment agreement.

VCSP program The Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) program.

A web-based platform that serves as a collaboration hub between Veeam, cloud and
service provider partners and Aggregators. Pulse supports end -to-end lifecycle
VCSP Pulse
management of VCSP partner usage of Veeam solutions from reporting monthly
consumption to requesting and downloading license keys.

The End User License Agreement (EULA) that governs the use of Veeam products,
Veeam EULA
including use by VCSP partners.

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About Rental Licensing
The Rental license type is available exclusively to members of the Veeam Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partner
program. It allows VCSP partners to get access to the following benefits:

• Expanded capabilities of license usage rights to manage and protect third -party data with Veeam.

• Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pricing which offers consumption-based licensing to facilitate onboarding of

customers and workloads.

• Portable licenses for data protection and value-added services for any customer, any workload, across any
cloud. Deployments can be either single or multi-tenant.

• Automatic license update capabilities to maintain license distribution, purchase license extensions and
increase license size at scale.

• Purpose-built products and partner portals designed to quickly onboard customers and facilitate monthly
usage reporting.

For more information about other license types, see Veeam Licensing Policy.

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Rental Agreements and Licensing Terms
The rental program offers two licensing term options, unlocking different contr act lengths:

• No Commit Rental Agreements offer limited contract terms to use Veeam Rental products for 75 days.
Each month that you report rental usage to Veeam, the license files are extended an additional 30 days.
With regular reporting and payments, no-commit partners enjoy the full flexibility of Veeam licensing
portability.

• Volume Rental Agreements (VRAs) offer longer licensing terms in exchange for a minimum commitment
each month. Pricing and benefits are reflective of the level of minimum commitment per month. As an
example, a partner may wish to commit to 200 points of consumption across Veeam installations. License
keys remain active for the contract length and can be extended in conjunction with a VRA extension or
upgrade.

License files can be configured and cut for either rental agreement term option in the VCSP Pulse partner portal.
For more information, see Using VCSP Pulse.

To ensure license files remain active and co-termed with your rental agreement, it is recommended to employ
the Automated License Key Update in all installations.

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Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Rental agreements for VCSP partners offer a rental pricing program:

1. Each product in the VCSP program has an assigned a Point Per Unit (PPU) value, delineated by workload
and edition where applicable.

2. Veeam Aggregators offer standard price-per-point (PPP) rental agreements that follow pre-negotiated
software cost which corresponds to the level of commitment. You may upgrade at any time as your
consumption grows. Each upgrade commences a new 12-month commitment.

3. After signing your agreement and beginning to use Veeam Rental products, you will report your
consumption of Veeam by the fifth day of each month via the VCSP Pulse platform and receive a bill from
your Veeam Aggregator.

For more information about pay-as-you-go pricing, contact a VCSP Sales Representative or find a Veeam
Aggregator.

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Initial Contract Terms and Grace Periods
If you have signed a VCSP Rental agreement for the first time (not a contract extension), you are granted a
limited period of grace in usage and (where applicable) license start date/end date.

• Usa ge grace period. Regardless of your agreement terms, usage is not charged for the balance of the first
month after you sign up for your first rental agreement. For example, if you sign an agreement on April 5,
2022, you will not be charged for April usage. Your first bill will be June 1 (for May usage). Usage grace
period does not apply after the initial program entry.

NOTE

Within Veeam products, each time when new workloads are being backed up, they are not included in the
next monthly usage report regardless of where you are in your rental agreement. For more information,
see Reducing License Usage.

• License end date for No Commit Rental Agreements. Regardless of your agreement terms, your license
start date corresponds to the start of your contract, not to the start of your billing terms. For No Commit
Rental Agreements, your initial license end date is 2.5 months after your contract start date, offering more
time to install your new licenses and start building your Veea m-powered services. Then, your license
expiration will extend by 30 days every time your monthly usage report is processed by your Aggregator
and Veeam.

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Expanded Usage Rights
Per the Veeam End User License Agreement (EULA), licenses may not be used to process third party data. This
restriction is lifted by leveraging Rental licenses through the VCSP program allowing for the expanded usage
rights to provide commercial hosting services and managed services powered by Veeam. However, to participate
in this program, the provider must agree to report their license usage each month to Veeam and, therefore,
must be able to access reporting for the customer’s environment. For more information about this requirement,
see Using VCSP Pulse.

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Portable Licensing
Veeam Backup & Replication uses a portable license format to unlock data protection of many types of
workloads including VMs, servers, workstations, file servers, and cloud -based workloads in AWS, Microsoft
Azure, and Google Cloud.

With the Veeam Rental program, under a single contract a VSCP partner can issue new licenses for any
workloads and onboard new customers at any time, without incremental ordering.

IMP ORTANT

Veeam encourages you to generate a separate license for each tenant’s Veeam Backup & Replication
server. This allows you to control over the licenses better with the ability to set specific license sizes and
revoke licenses from tenant's Veeam Backup & Replication installations. For more information, see Using
Veeam Service Provider Console.

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About License Management
Veeam broadly offers flexible license options to try, buy and consume data protection solutions. VCSP partners
can take advantage of free trial, Not For Resale (NFR), and Rental licenses to manage and protect third party
data. Learn more about available License Types to explore what may work best for your business.

For Rental license users, the VCSP Pulse partner portal offers a self-service license configuration, usage
reporting and other features to ensure a seamless in-product experience. VCSP Pulse can also ensure Rental
Agreements and License Terms and Exceeding License Limit are mitigated to continue support and service.

Service providers who control backup infrastructure on the tenant side can manage Rental licenses installed on
the tenant backup servers. With the Rental license, service providers can deliver a complete managed backup
service for a single fee based on the protected workload type.

Veeam Service Provider Console allows service providers to manage licenses for Veeam products centrally. For
more information, see Using Veeam Service Provider Console.

For the Rental license, service providers report the number of licensed workloads. The report also contains the
license information, the number of processed workloads, and information about machines and job types.

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License Types
Per the Veeam Licensing Policy, the following license types are available:

Licensed
License Type Usa ge Rights Ad d itional Details
Ob ject

Instances for
Instance-
Offers free usage for a limited based Evaluation licenses are typically
time. Usage is limited to non- products, offered on a 30-day basis. Contact
E valuation
production evaluation and workload- your Veeam Representative for more
demonstration purposes only. specific for details.
other
products.

Instances for
Instance-
Offered exclusively to partners, The most common NFR type for
based
NFR keys can be used free for a partners is Instances, and those are
Not for products,
limited time. Usage is limited to offered as 30-day 1,000 Instance
Resale (NFR) workload-
non-production evaluation and licenses OR 1-year 100 Instance
specific for
demonstration purposes only. licenses.
other
products.

Instances for
Available exclusively to VCSP Instance-
partners, the intended use is for based
These licenses align to VCSP Rental
protection and management of products,
Rental pricing, which offers a pay-as-you-go
third-party data. However, VCSP workload-
model for monthly usage.
partners may also use them for specific for
internal data management. other
products.

Available to Veeam customers or

partners managing/protecting their
own data, Veeam Subscription is Instances for
offered on single-year or multi- Instance-
year terms. based
Check out the Pricing Resource
products,
Sub scription Note: Subscription licenses may Center on the ProPartner Portal for
workload-
not be owned by a VCSP partner information on Veeam Subscription.
specific for
for management/protection of other
third-party data. However, these products.
licenses are available for Resale to
Veeam customers.

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 Licensed
License Type Usa ge Rights Ad d itional Details
Ob ject

Available to Veeam customers or

partners managing/protecting their
own data, Veeam Perpetual
licenses are owned in perpetuity
with single-year and multi-year Veeam Perpetual covers a few of
Maintenance Contracts available. Veeam more mature products:
Offered per-
P erpetual Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam
Note: Perpetual licenses may not Socket only.
ONE, Veeam Availability Suite, and
be owned by a VCSP partner for Veeam Management Pack.
management/protection of third-
party data. However, these licenses
are available for Resale to Veeam
customers.

Most Veeam products have a Free

version that offers full or limited
functionality.
Instances for
Community Edition offers full Instance-
functionality for a limited license based
Free
amount. For example, Instance- products, Most products have a Free or
( Community
based products are offered up to workload- Community Edition offering.
E d ition)
10 Instances per installation. specific for
other
Note: Licensing Community Edition products.
to manage or protect third-party
data is prohibited, per the Veeam
EULA.

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Automatic License Key Update
Automatic License Key Update (ALK Update) is a function of several Veeam products. With this feature enabled,
any updates made to licenses in VCSP Pulse or VCSP Pulse plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console
(expiration date, license counter) will be automatically reflected in the Veeam installation. More information on
how to enable this functionality for each product as well as the license update server name can be found in the
following table:

P roduct License Update Server Used Port

vac.butler.veeam.com
Veeam Service Provider Console autolk.veeam.com 443

vbr.butler.veeam.com
Veeam Backup & Replication autolk.veeam.com 443

Veeam ONE one.butler.veeam.com 443

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vbo.butler.veeam.com 443

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator vao.butler.veeam.com 443

NOTE

If you use Veeam Service Provider Console to manage licenses of your Veeam products, during the license
update the underlying server connects directly to *.butler.veeam.com servers. For example, if Veeam
Service Provider Console manages license for Veeam Backup & Replication server, this server will directly
communicate with vbr.butler.veeam.com.

In addition to license update servers, the following endpoints are required for certificate validation when a
Veeam product connect to the license update server to check if the new license is available and download it:

Certificate Revocation List Used E x ample

URLs P ort

*.ss2.us 80 o.ss2.us

ocsp.sca1b.amazontrust.com
*.amazontrust.com 80 ocsp.rootca1.amazontrust.com
ocsp.rootg2.amazontrust.com

NOTE

Consider that certificate verification endpoints are subject to change. The actual list of addresses can be
found in the certificate itself.

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If you are near the expiration date of your rental agreement or do not have ALK Update enabled, a warning
message will appear in your environment.

IMP ORTANT

It is critical to enable ALK Update on all servers to avoid service outages in the event of a license that is at
capacity or has expired. It is also required for the auto reporting functionality. For more information, see
Automatic License Reporting.

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Exceeding License Limit
If your license key has expired or you have exceeded your license limit, Veeam affords extension of license time
and amount to ensure you continue to meet your service agreements.

While using rental licenses for Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Service Provider Console,
Veeam Cloud Connect, and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, the grace period allows:

• 20 workloads or 20% more than your license limit (whichever is greater).

• A grace period of 60 days.

NOTE

Exceeding license algorithm as well as information about the grace period are built into Veeam products.
It's not possible to disable exceed logic or change the threshold values.

You can read more about the protocols for exceeding licenses limits in the corresponding articles:

• Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide article

• Veeam ONE User Guide article

• Veeam Service Provider Console User Guide article

• Veeam Cloud Connect User Guide article

• Veeam Recovery Orchestrator User Guide article

For Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 rental licenses, the limits are:

• 20 Users or 20% more than your licenses limit (whichever is greater).

• If exceeded by more than 20 user accounts or 20% of your licenses, you may process the backups
according to the FIFO queue (first in, first out) and no more accounts will be processed.

• A grace period of 1 month. However, if exceeded by up to 2 months the FIFO queue process applies.

If you reach or exceed your license limit, you may adjust your license key in VCSP Pulse.

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Reducing License Usage
New Workloads
For all Veeam products with VCSP Rental license installed, the License Information screen will note workloads
that have been processed for the first time within the current calendar month as New Instances. For example, if
you added and backed up a VM on February 15, 2022, this machine will be tagged as a New Instance for your
February usage (reported and billed in March).

To offer service providers more flexibility when offering trial periods for processing new machines, these new
workloads will not consume a license. Furthermore, you do not need to report usage of new workloads in that
month’s rental usage report. For more information, see the Veeam Cloud Connect Administrator Guide article
(this offering is not specific to Veeam Cloud Connect).

The same logic applies to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 users. When they are being backed up for the first
time, it will be shown as New Users. For more information, see this Help Center article.

For Veeam ONE, objects being monitored for the first time will be shown as New Ob jects. For more information,
see this Help Center article.

Active Restore Points Previous Calendar Month

Per the Veeam Licensing Policy, Veeam products measure usage within a given payment period based on the
latest restore point. If a given workload does not have at least one restore point created by Veeam within the
last 31 days, this workload will not consume a rental license for that month.

For example, if you backed up a VM every day from January 1, 2022 through March 15th, 2022 but stopped
backing up that workload, it will stop showing up on your monthly rental usage reports beginning the first of
May (representing your April usage month).

Free Veeam Cloud Connect Backup

Veeam Cloud Connect Backup can be distributed for free to service providers offering end -to-end Backup as a
Service. This license scenario is allowed in two cases:

• If you are an MSP offering your tenants a fully managed services for Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam
Agent for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac

• If you provide Cloud Connect Backup infrastructure to your channel partners (resellers) who offer remote
managed services for Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agents to tenants. This can be combined with
Veeam Service Provider Console Reseller role to "white-label" the service.

To use this license scenario, generate and install a VCSP Rental license file on your tenant’s backup server.

NOTE

For Veeam Cloud Connect Replication and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with Veeam Cloud Connect,
the license is consumed from both the tenant and the service provider regardless of the license type
installed on the tenant Veeam Backup & Replication server.

For more information about this licensing model, especially how it relates to tenant tracking and backwards
compatibility versions, refer to this Veeam Cloud Connect Administrator Guide article.

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Automatic License Reporting
To streamline your license usage reporting process, enable automatic license reporting. This allows VCSP Pulse
to automatically collect and populate the license usage from all backup environments that use VCSP Rental
licensing. Also, you can reduce the time spent on the preparation of the monthly license usage report.

Veeam products using automatic license reporting must have an access to the license update servers specified in
the Automatic License Key Update section.

IMP ORTANT

When you create the automatically reported license for the first time, it is valid for 2,5 months. After the
period ends, the license will be extended every month if you submit license usage report for this license on
time (directly from the Veeam product or manually in VCSP Pulse). If Veeam does not receive the report,
the license will be expired.

Prerequisites
To use automatic license reporting, you must enable the feature for your account:

1. Log in to my.veeam.com and go to Sup port > Open a case.

2. Select the General Inquiry case type.

3. In the I ha ve problems with field, select VCSP Pulse from the list.

4. In the field for brief summary or detailed issue description, request to enable the fe ature.

5. Submit the case.

NOTE

You should continue submitting the license usage manually until automatic license reporting is enabled.

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Enabling Automatic License Reporting
To enable automatic license reporting, perform the following steps:

1. [New licenses] If you use Veeam Service Provider Console, launch a New License Key wizard in the VCSP
Pulse plug-in. At the License Info step of the wizard, set the Automatic reporting toggle to On. For more
information, see Creating License Keys in the Veeam Service Provider Console Guide.

If you use VCSP Pulse Portal, go to Ma nage Licenses and set the Auto Reported License toggle to On.

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 2. [Existing licenses] If you use Veeam Service Provider Console, see Enabling Automatic License Reporting
in the Veeam Service Provider Console Guide.

3. Ensure that Automatic License Key Update is enabled.

If the Automatic License Key Update is enabled on the server with the Veeam product installed, the next time
the server sends a request to the Veeam License Update Server the license will b e automatically updated. If you
want to update the license immediately, do one of the following:

• If you use Veeam Service Provider Console, see Updating License in the Veeam Service Provider Console
Guide.

• Follow the instructions for specific products:

o The Updating License Manually section of the Veeam Backup & Replication Guide.

o The Updating License section of the Veeam Cloud Connect Guide.

o The Updating Licenses section of the Veeam ONE Guide.

o The Installing and Updating section of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Guide.

Submitting License Usage

After you enable automatic license reporting, information about licenses will automatically appear in the
Monthly Usages > My Actions section in the following cases:

• When the product submits the usage automatically

• When you manually submit the usage in the product UI

Also, the Current Month Usage column will be automatically populated.

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To submit the monthly usage, perform the following steps:

o Review automatically reported licenses.

o If you have Veeam Backup & Replication installations without automatically reported licenses, ad d the
license usage manually. In the Current Month Usage column, select the product and enter the number
of workloads. You can find it in Veeam Service Provider Console, in the Count column of the monthly
License Usage Report.

o Click Sub mit Usage.

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Tools for Licensing and Usage Reporting
Veeam offers two key solutions to facilitate the management of licenses, usage reports, and customer
onboarding:

• Veeam Service Provider Console is a free Veeam product that snaps onto most Veeam solutions, offering
customer onboarding, centralized license management, and automated usage reporting to capture
accurate information across customer installations. By using built-in VCSP Pulse plug-in, it allows self-
service license management for a partner as well as the service reseller added to the console. License
management includes cutting and assigning individual licenses to customers, remote license installation,
changing license settings (the number of workloads and the expiration date), and revoking process.

• VCSP Pulse is a part of ProPartner portal that offers service providers access to the license configuration,
submitting monthly usage reports and more. Now, service providers can cut individual customer licenses,
keep licenses up to date and up to size, and interface with Veeam and their Aggregator for monthly
reporting and billing. Access to VCSP Pulse is granted after a VCSP partner signs a rental agreement with a
Veeam Aggregator.

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Using Veeam Service Provider Console
To streamline the license management process, you can use Veea m Service Provider Console — a free product
with a web-based user interface. With Veeam Service Provider Console you can install, update, and revoke
licenses on your Veeam-powered services.

If Veeam Service Provider Console manages other products directly or using the plug -in, the license is consumed
as follows:

P roduct Managed by VSPC License Consumed From

Veeam Agent Veeam Service Provider Console

Veeam Backup for Public Clouds Veeam Cloud Connect

Generating Licenses
For the following products, you can generate new licenses directly from Veeam Service Provider Console by
using built-in VCSP Pulse plug-in:

• Veeam Backup & Replication

• Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications

• Veeam Cloud Connect (including workloads consumed by Veeam Backup for Public Clouds plug -ins)

• Veeam Agents

• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

• Veeam ONE

To learn more about managing and installing licenses from Veeam Service Provider Console, see the Managing
License section in the Guide for Service Providers.

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 NOTE

If a license file with the same ID is utilized on multiple backup servers, the Shared license key usage alert
will be triggered. To resolve that, create tenant companies in VCSP Pulse and generate individual licenses
for each tenant’s Veeam Backup & Replication installation.

Self-service license management capabilities are also available to service resellers. To utilize that, a service
provider must enable License Management in the reseller settings. To use this functionality, the reseller must
register on the ProPartner Portal and enable the VCSP Pulse plug-in integration.

Submitting License Usage

On the first day of a new month, Veeam Service Provider Console generates a single license usage report which
includes all protected (and monitored by Veeam ONE) workloads from all connected Veeam product
installations. This report can be reviewed, adjusted and then finalized. Once you click Sub mit, the finalized
report will be generated. Then you must submit usage from the report to VCSP Pulse Portal.

You can also enable automatic license reporting to automatically collect and populate the license usage from all
backup environments that use VCSP Rental licensing. For more information, see Automatic License Reporting.

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Using VCSP Pulse
VCSP Pulse is an end-to-end license and usage reporting management platform that offers a collaboration hub
between Veeam, Aggregators, and VCSP partners.

Partners can start using the portal when a Rental agreement is signed with a Veeam Aggregator. If you have
been onboarded, you can log in with your ProPartner Portal credentials. If you do not have a ProPartner Portal
login, register here. In this portal you will be able to cut, adjust and download licenses, report monthly usage to
your Aggregator, and view your contract information.

Generating Licenses
For most Veeam products, licenses can be managed through a VCSP Pulse plug -in for Veeam Service Provider
Console. You can find the list of supported products in the Using Veeam Service Provider Console section.

In VCSP Pulse Portal, however, you can generate licenses for all Veeam products supported in the VCSP Program
including Veeam Recovery Orchestrator and Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center. The license
for any platform is generated in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License section.

Submitting License Usage

Each month you must submit the monthly usage to your Aggregator. To do that, perform the following steps:

1. Open VCSP Pulse Portal and click Monthly Usages > My Actions.

2. In the Current Month Usage column, select the product and enter the number of workloads. You can find
it in Veeam Service Provider Console, in the Count column of the monthly License Usage Report.

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 3. Click Sub mit Usage.

More information on how it works, getting started guide and how-to videos can be found at ProParter portal.

You can also enable automatic license reporting to automatically collect and populate the license usage from all
backup environments that use VCSP Rental licensing. For more information, see Automatic License Reporting.

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Licensing and Usage Reporting for
Veeam Products
To offer cloud and managed service providers the best-fit pricing model to grow their business, Veeam provides
access to an exclusive pay-as-you-go licensing and pricing program: VCSP Rental. VCSP Rental offers access to a
points-based pricing portfolio, unlocking data protection and add -on capabilities that the breadth of workloads
supported. Veeam Aggregators then offer a pre-negotiated price per point, in a variety of local currencies, to
support monthly usage reporting each month for maximized partner margins.

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Veeam Backup & Replication
Product Overview
Veeam Backup & Replication is a comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution. With
Veeam Backup & Replication, you can create image-level backups of virtual, physical, cloud machines, and
restore from them. Technology used in the product optimizes data transfer and resource consumption which
helps to minimize storage costs and the recovery time in case of a disaster.

Veeam Backup & Replication provides a centralized console for administering backup/restore/replication
operations in all supported platforms (virtual, physical, cloud). Also, the console allows you to automate and
schedule routine data protection operations and integrate with solutions for alerting and generating compliance
reports.

NOTE

Veeam Backup & Replication servers with the Veeam Cloud Connect license installed are described in a
separate section.

For more information about Veeam Backup & Replication, including installation and operating instructions, see
User Guide and Quick Start Guide on the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
To work with Veeam Backup & Replication, you must obtain a license file and install it on the backup server. You
can create a single license to cover all types of workloads protected by a single Veeam Backup & Replication
server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in
for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file which includes one or multiple workload
types can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam
Ba ckup & Replication section. For more information about licenses for each workload type, see corresponding
subsections.

Once the license is installed in Veeam Backup & Replication, License Information screen displays the number of
points in license as Instances.

IMP ORTANT

Veeam Backup & Replication server cannot use licenses of multiple different editions simultaneously. For
example, consider deploying an additional Veeam Backup & Replication server if one VMs need to be
protected under Enterprise Plus edition and other VMs with Standard edition.

If there are multiple backup servers managed by the Enterprise Manager, all Veeam Backup & Replication
instances will use the license file installed on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server.

Veeam Backup & Replication VCSP Rental license key can also be installed on Veeam Service Provider Console to
be utilized for Managing Veeam Backup Agents usage scenario.

Usage Reporting
The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. To enable license usage reporting, connect
Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Once done, license usage from all workloads managed by that server will
be included into the monthly License Usage Report.

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Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Directly from Veeam Backup & Replication server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Virtual Machines
Product Overview
Veeam Backup & Replication is a 4-in-1 backup and recovery solution for storage snapshots, backups, replicas
and continuous data protection in one product. The solution provid es backup, recovery and replication for all
critical workloads including VMware, Windows, Linux, and much more.

For more information about Veeam Backup & Replication, including installation and operating instructions, see
User Guide and Quick Start Guide on the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
In VCSP Rental licensing, each VM Veeam Backup & Replication server protects gets licensed. There are three
paid editions available to VCSP – Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus. Each edition provides a different set
of capabilities. For more details, see the Editions Comparison Document.

You can create a single license to cover all types of workloads protected by a single Veeam Backup & Replication
server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in
for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal
by adding the Virtual Machine workload type in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Backup &
Rep lication > Virtual Machine section.

Each VM under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit (PPU)
which tiers PPU consumption for VMs based on the edition of Veeam Backup & Replication.

W orkload Type Sta ndard (PPU) E nterprise (PPU) E nterprise P lus (PPU)

Virtual Machine 5 points 9 points 11 points

Usage Reporting
Regardless of hypervisor (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Nutanix AHV), every virtual machine under
protection will appear in usage reports as a VM counter.

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider C onsole, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. To enable license usage reporting, connect
Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Once done, license usage from all workloads managed by that server will
be included into the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Directly from Veeam Backup & Replication server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Veeam Agent Computers
Product Overview
Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows, Linux, IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris, and Mac offer backup and recovery for
virtual and physical servers and workstations in the datacenter, at customer offices, or roaming laptops and
ROBOs out of reach from traditional solutions.

While Veeam Agents can be centrally managed using Veeam Backup & Replication, many service providers opt
to manage them in Veeam Service Provider Console for broad coverage across customer sites. Veeam Service
Provider Console can remotely discover and protect workloads including Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows,
Linux, and Mac.

For more information about Veeam Agents, including how Veeam Service Provider Console can centrally deploy
and manage agents, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac are supported in all Veeam Backup & Replication editions.
Veeam Agents for IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris are only supported in Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus
edition.

Veeam Service Provider Console can manage Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac directly. For
more information, see Managing Veeam Backup Agents usage scenario. In this case, Veeam Agents will utilize
the license installed on the Veeam Service Provider Console server.

You can create a single license to cover all types of workloads protected by a single Veeam Backup & Replication
server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in
for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal
by adding the Server (and/or Workstation) workload type in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License >
Veeam Backup & Replication > Server (and/or Workstation) section.

Each VM under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit
(PPU).

W orkload Type W orkstation (PPU) Server (PPU)

Microsoft Windows 4 points 11 points

Linux 4 points 11 points

Mac 4 points 11 points

IBM AIX - 11 points

Oracle Solaris - 11 points

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 NOTE

Workstation and Server editions offer different levels of supported capabilities, more details can be found
in the feature comparison document here. For example, it is allowed to use a Server license on a laptop in
case you need flexible job scheduling capabilities.

Usage Reporting
A new license usage report is generated on the first day of each month. It includes the number of monitored
workloads for the past month. Regardless of operating system, usage for these workloads will appear as one of
two counters: Servers or W orkstations.

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. If Veeam Agents are managed by Veeam Service
Provider Console directly, they will be included into the monthly usage report automatically.

If Veeam Agents are managed by the Veeam Backup & Replication server, connect Veeam Backup & Replication
servers to enable license usage reporting. Once done, license usage from all workloads managed by that server
will be included into the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Directly from Veeam Backup & Replication server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Public Cloud Workloads
Product Overview
Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are native backup and recovery solutions that
enable users to gain control of their cloud-hosted data. Users can take advantage of policy-based backup and
recovery that scales to cost-effective object storage and keeps data portable for cross-cloud or cloud-to-
datacenter designs.

While standalone licensing and deployment options are available, VCSP partners who want to utilize Rental
licensing to manage and protect AWS and Microsoft Azure have the following options to manage appliances
centrally:

• Use the Veeam Backup for Public Clouds plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. This option is
preferable if tenants do not have Veeam Backup & Replication servers already installed.

• Connect the appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. This option also enables additional
restore options to enable cross-platform, cross-cloud migration scenarios.

To manage and protect Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, VCSP partners can only connect the appliance to the
Veeam Backup & Replication server.

More information on deployment options can be found on VCSP Technical Hub. For general information,
including step-by-step configuration support, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
All paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication support integration with Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft
Azure and Google Cloud appliances including the following workload types:

• VMs (EC2, Azure VM, Google Cloud VM instances)

• Database servers (RDS, Azure Managed SQL, Cloud SQL)

• File servers (EFS, Azure Files)

• AWS VPC (free)

All workloads, protected by Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are licensed per
workload. You can create a single license to cover all types of workloads p rotected by a single
Veeam Backup & Replication server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server
installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can
be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the Cloud VM workload type in the Ma nage Licenses >
Request New License > Veeam Backup & Replication section.

Each workload under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit
(PPU).

W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

Public Cloud VM 11 points

Public Cloud Database 11 points

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 W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

Public Cloud File Share 11 points

NOTE

To protect VMs located in public clouds, you can also use Veeam Agents. In this case, VMs will be reported
as W orkstation or Server depending on the backup policy configuration. For more information, see the
Veeam Agent Computers section.

Usage Reporting
The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. To enable license usage reporting, connect
Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Once done, license usage from all workloads managed by that server will
be included into the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Directly from Veeam Backup & Replication server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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NAS File Shares and NDMP Servers
Product Overview
With Veeam Backup & Replication you can easily back up and restore content of various NAS file shares. The
solution can be flexibly scaled to reliably protect massive amounts of data, even for the largest enterprise
organizations. To protect your NAS file shares, you can use your existing Veeam Backup & Replication
infrastructure. Also, you can back up NAS file shares directly on tapes with a separate file to tape job that
supports the NDMP protocol. For more information, see NDMP Servers Backup to Tape.

For more information about how to configure protection of these workloads, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
NAS backups and file to tape jobs are licensed based on front-end capacity. All paid editions of
Veeam Backup & Replication support integration with NAS backups.

You can create a single license to cover all types of workloads protected by a single Veeam Backup & Replication
server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in
for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal
by adding the File Share workload type in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Backup &
Rep lication > File Share section.

NOTE

The NDMP servers backup to tape job requires Enterprise Plus edition. However, this type of job does not
consume licenses.

Veeam Backup & Replication rounds the protected amount of data for each file share down to 500 GB. For more
information and examples, see this article.

Each workload under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit
(PPU).

W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

File Share (per 500 GB) 10 points

File Share (if total size < 500 GB) Free

NDMP to Tape Free

Usage Reporting
A new license usage report is generated on the first day of each month. It includes the number of monitored
workloads for the past month. Usage for file shares can be tracked using the File Share counter name.

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. To enable license usage reporting, connect
Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Once done, license usage from all workloads managed by that server will
be included into the monthly License Usage Report.

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Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Directly from Veeam Backup & Replication server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications
Product Overview
Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications extend functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication and allow you
to create transactionally-consistent backups of SAP HANA and Oracle databases.

• Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA — a SAP-certified backup and recovery solution that allows you to back up
and restore SAP HANA databases.

• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN — an Oracle-certified backup and recovery solution that allows you to
back up and restore Oracle databases.

• Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle — a SAP-certified backup and recovery solution that allows you to back
up and restore Oracle databases to which an SAP application is connected.

• Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server — a Microsoft-certified backup tool for SQL Server databases that
integrates with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

For more information about how to configure protection of these workloads, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications is licensed per Ap p lication server. To utilize Rental licensing for
Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Application, it must be connected to Veeam Backup & Replication installation,
which uses Enterprise Plus license.

You can create a single license to cover all types of workloads protected by a single Veeam Backup & Replication
server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in
for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal
by adding the Ap p lication server workload type in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Backup
& Replication > Application server section.

NOTE

A machine protected by both Veeam Plug-in and Veeam Backup & Replication will consume a license only
once. For example, you have an Oracle server that you back up using Veeam Plug -in. You also back up this
server using image-level backup functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication. In this case, only one license
will be consumed.

Each workload under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit
(PPU).

P oint Per Unit

W orkload Type
( P PU)

Application 11 points

Application (if the underlying workload is also protected with

Free
Veeam Backup & Replication VM or Agent backup)

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Usage Reporting
A new license usage report is generated on the first day of each month. It includes the number of monitored
workloads for the past month. Usage for these workloads can be tracked using the E nterprise Applications
counter name.

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. To enable license usage reporting, connect
Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Once done, license usage from all workloads managed by that server will
be included into the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Directly from Veeam Backup & Replication server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Veeam ONE
Product Overview
Veeam ONE provides monitoring and reporting for all Veeam Backup & Replication servers as well as virtualized
infrastructure – VMware vSphere (including VMware Cloud Director) and Microsoft Hy per-V. This enables
capacity planning, alerting, heatmaps, data protection insights, and more.

For Infrastructure as a Service environments, Veeam ONE can provide multi-tenancy for reporting and
dashboards with RBAC. For Veeam Cloud Connect environments, it provides an additional subset of reports and
monitoring insights.

For more information about configuring monitoring and reporting, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
Veeam ONE is licensed per Monitored Workload. Please note that Veeam ONE enables data collection and
reporting automatically for all workloads protected by the Veeam Backup & Replication servers it is connected
to.

In case only virtual infrastructure is being monitored (no backup servers are added to the Veeam ONE server),
you can granularly control the license consumption using inclusion and exclusion rules for monitored VMs. For
more information, see the Veeam ONE Deployment Guide.

The license file can be generated and assigned to the Veeam ONE installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in for
Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by
adding the Monitored W orkload workload type in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam ONE
section.

Each workload under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit
(PPU).

W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

Monitored Workload 2 points

Microsoft 365 (10 users pack) Free

Veeam Cloud Connect Workloads Free

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 NOTE

For Veeam ONE, the rental program includes free license usage for the following workloads:

• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (monitoring/reporting). Consider that when you generate the
license, the cost of the Microsoft 365 (10 users pack) license will be displayed as 2 PPU. When Veeam
ONE generates the monthly license usage report, it automatically recalculates the cost of the license
to 0 PPU.

• Veeam Cloud Connect (monitoring/reporting). Consider that performance monitoring and alerting
displays jobs for Veeam Cloud Connect backup servers only including their latest state and
performance statistics.

Usage Reporting
A new license usage report is generated on the first day of each month. It includes the number of monitored
workloads for the past month. Usage for these workloads can be tracked using the following counter names:

• Virtual Machines

• Cloud Instances

• W orkstation Agents

• Server Agents

• File Shares

• Microsoft 365 (10 users pack)

The overall usage is submitted through the following counters: Monitored W orkload and Microsoft 365 (10
users pack).

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data across IaaS as well as tenants’ Veeam
ONE installations is Veeam Service Provider Console, an automated and free tool for license management and
reporting. For integration with Veeam ONE use a dedicated plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. License
usage will appear in the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Veeam ONE REST API

• Veeam ONE server

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Veeam Cloud Connect for Service Providers
Product Overview
Veeam Cloud Connect for Service Providers is a multi-tenant platform that enables VCSP partners to easily build
a Veeam-powered off-site backup and DRaaS offering. Veeam Cloud Connect is installed in the service
provider’s environment – on physical or virtual machine, or in a hyperscale cloud like Microsoft Azure and IBM
Cloud. To deploy Veeam Cloud Connect, download and install Veeam Backup & Replication ISO providing Veeam
Cloud Connect license file.

The Veeam Cloud Connect server is also a backbone for public cloud appliances (Veeam Backup for AWS and
Microsoft Azure) deployed through a plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. Those appliances are
consuming the license from the Veeam Cloud Connect server.

For more information about setup and configuration, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
Veeam Cloud Connect is licensed per protected workload. The license file can be generated and assigned to the
Veeam Cloud Connect installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a
new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the required workload types and
quantities in the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Cloud Connect & Public Cloud Workloads
section.

IMP ORTANT

A Veeam Cloud Connect license is not consumed for backup and backup copy operations if the tenant’s
Veeam Backup & Replication server has the rental license installed. For more information, see Reducing
License Usage.

Each tenant’s workload backed up or replicated to Veeam Cloud Connect consumes the license from the Veeam
Cloud Connect server at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit (PPU).

If Tenant Uses Rental License If Tenant Uses Subscription or Perpetual

W orkload Type
( P PU) License (PPU)

Cloud Connect VM Free 5 points

Cloud Connect Replica 10 points 10 points

Cloud Connect
Free 3 points
Workstation

Cloud Connect Server Free 7 points

Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure appliances deployed through Veeam Cloud
Connect can protect the following types of workloads:

• VMs (EC2, Azure VM)

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 • Database servers (RDS, Azure Managed SQL)

• File servers (EFS, Azure Files)

• AWS VPC (free)

Public cloud appliances are deployed through Veeam Service Provider Console and consume the following
licenses from the Veeam Cloud Connect server:

P oint Per
W orkload Type Unit
( P PU)

Public Cloud VM 11 points

Public Cloud Database 11 points

Public Cloud File Share 11 points

NOTE

While Veeam Cloud Connect allows a service provider to build offering around off -site backup
and disaster recovery for end-users, there is also the Cloud Connect for Enterprise licensing
option, purpose-built for large enterprises with distributed datacenters, remote office/branch
office (ROBO), and mobile users. For more information, see this article.

Usage Reporting
The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. To utilize Veeam Service Provider Console, you
must connect Veeam Cloud Connect servers to it. Once Veeam Cloud Connect servers are connected, the license
usage from the Veeam Cloud Connect license will appear under the monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Enterprise Manager (if the Veeam Cloud Connect server is connected to it)

• Veeam Cloud Connect server report

Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Veeam Recovery Orchestrator
Product Overview
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator delivers a reliable, scalable and easy -to-use orchestration and automation engine
for business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR). Features include recovery planning, automated testing, and
compliance documentation. This solution is an excellent add-on to on premises customer deployments or
private cloud hosting customers.

For more information about setup and configuration, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator is licensed per orchestrated VM. To orchestrate recovery from Veeam replicas or
backups, all orchestrated workloads must also be licensed and protected with Veeam Backup & Replication
Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition. To orchestrate recovery from HPE (3PAR, Primera, Alletra 9000)
snapshots, NetApp ONTAP snapshots, additional Veeam Backup & Replication licenses are not required
(although they are recommended to enable features such as application-aware snapshots).

NOTE

As a part of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, the embedded version of Veeam ONE Server does not require an
additional license.

The license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the VM workload type in the Ma nage
Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Recovery Orchestrator > VM section. Download the license file and
select it during the Veeam Recovery Orchestrator installation process. If the license needs to be updated on the
existing installation, follow the steps described in the Help Center article.

Each orchestrated workload consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit
(PPU).

W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

VM 11 points

NOTE

Orchestrated instances are assigned to VMs, where one orchestrated instance is equivalent to one VM,
regardless of how many orchestration plans that VM is included in. For example, if both backup and replica
of a specific VM is orchestrated, this would only consume a single license instance.

You can use Rental license on Veeam Recovery Orchestrator while the underlying Veeam Backup & Replication
server has the Subscription license installed and vice versa.

Usage Reporting
At the beginning of the month, open the Veeam Recovery Orchestrator UI and go to Ad ministration > License >
Details to obtain the license usage details. The information includes the number of orchestrated VMs for the
past month. Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Product Overview
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 enables VCSP to offer a data protection service for Microsoft 365 tenant
organizations, including protection of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Teams. In
addition, the product offers a web-based self-service restore portal for Microsoft 365 Users and Restore
Operators.

For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 product page.

Licensing
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is licensed per Us er. The license file can be generated and assigned to the
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console.
Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the User workload type in
the Ma nage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 > User section.

Each workload under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit
(PPU).

W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

User 1.5 points

A license for a user is consumed when backing up the following item types:

• Microsoft Exchange Online or on-premises mailbox

• Microsoft OneDrive for Business account

• Microsoft SharePoint Online

• Microsoft Teams

Licenses are not required for shared, resource and group mailboxes or external SharePoint users.

Usage Reporting
A new license usage report is generated on the first day of each month. It includes the number of monitored
workloads for the past month. Usage for these workloads can be tracked using the User counter.

The primary and recommended method to collect usage reporting data is Veeam Service Provider Console, an
automated and free tool for license management and reporting. For integration with Veeam Backup for
Microsoft 365, use a dedicated plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. License usage will appear in the
monthly License Usage Report.

Alternatively, license usage can be obtained by one of the following ways:

• Veeam Service Provider Console REST API

• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 REST API

• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server UI

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Then, the overall usage must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft
System Center
Product Overview
Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center is the most comprehensive System Center extension for
managing and monitoring VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Veeam Backup & Replication. Key features
include:

• See health statuses of specific areas of your virtual data centers, including real-time monitoring for all
your Veeam Backup & Replication environments in the Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard.

• Maintain complete control and visibility for all your Windows-based (physical) and virtual-based (VMware
and Hyper-V) Veeam-powered backup jobs.

• Manage and plan for growth with capacity-planning reports.

• Predict resources needed to run your workloads in Microsoft Azure or VMware Cloud on AWS

For more information about configuration process and available reports, see the Veeam Help Center.

Licensing
Veeam Management Pack is licensed per-CPU socket on hosts with VMs. A license is required for each occupied
motherboard CPU socket as reported by the hypervisor API.

The license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the Sock et workload type in the Ma nage
Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center > Socket section. Then
download and install it during the Veeam Management Pack installation process. If the license needs to be
updated on the existing installation, follow the steps described in this article.

Each hypervisor socket under monitoring consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point
Per Unit (PPU):

W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

Socket 45 points

Usage Reporting
At the beginning of the month, obtain license usage numbers from the Da shboard tab. Then, the overall usage
must be submitted through VCSP Pulse Portal.

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Kasten K10 by Veeam
Product Overview
Purpose-built for Kubernetes, Kasten K10 provides enterprise operations teams an easy -to-use, scalable, and
secure system for backup/restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications.

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to manage data protection and restore tasks for backups exported with
K10 policies. For this, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Veeam Backup Repositories for Kasten K10 solution.

Veeam Backup Repositories for Kasten K10 extends Veeam Backup & Replication functionality and allows you to
export backups created by K10 policies to backup repositories. For more information, see the integration guide.

For more information about setup and configuration, see the Kasten K10 documentation.

Licensing
Kasten K10 Rental license can be obtained via Veeam or Kasten sales representative. The product is licensed per
Nod e. Each orchestrated workload consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per
Unit (PPU).

W orkload Type P oint Per Unit (PPU)

Node 225 points

Usage Reporting
The overall usage based on high watermark license consumption over the month must be submitted through
VCSP Pulse Portal.

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