Veeam Backup And Replication Trial

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SPs and tenants can use a Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license within the Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructure. This section describes the details of this license that apply to Veeam Cloud Connect. To learn more on how Rental licensing works in general, including details for other Veeam products, see Veeam Rental Licensing and Usage Reporting Guide.

In the Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructure, the main usage scenario for the Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license is the MSP Backup scenario. In this scenario, the SP controls the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure on the tenant side and manages tenant machines. As part of this process, the SP installs a Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license on the tenant Veeam backup server.

The Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license is a full license with the license expiration date set according to the chosen rental program (normally from 1 to 12 months from the date of issue) that can be automatically updated upon expiration.

The Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license is consumed by protected workloads. A protected workload is a virtual or physical machine that has at least one restore point created by a tenant in the past 31 days.

License consumption does not depend on the number of jobs that process protected workloads. For example, if a tenant processes the same VM with multiple jobs, this VM is still considered as 1 protected workload.

Protected workloads are counted regardless of the type of jobs (backup or replication) that process these workloads. For example, if a tenant processes the same VM with a backup job and a replication job, this VM is considered as 1 protected workload.

To provide more flexibility and introduce a trial period for tenant workload processing, Veeam Backup & Replication offers the concept of new workloads. New workloads are workloads that were processed for the first time within the current calendar month. For example, Veeam Backup & Replication processes 7 machines in November. In December, Veeam Backup & Replication processes the same 7 machines plus 2 new machines. In December, these 2 machines are considered as new workloads.

New workloads are counted separately from existing workloads and do not consume points in the license during the month when they were introduced. On the first day of the new month, the number of points related to new workloads is added to the total number of used points, and the new points counter is reset. New workloads are included in a license usage report for informational purposes.

For more information on new workloads in the context of Veeam Rental Licencing, see the Delayed License Consumption for New Workloads and Users in the Veeam Rental Licensing and Usage Reporting Guide.

The SP can install one Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license on multiple tenant Veeam backup servers. When a license file is assigned to a Veeam backup server, this backup server receives an Installation ID. An Installation ID is a unique identifier that is used to track the fact of using the same license file on multiple installations of Veeam Backup & Replication.

A Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license installed on multiple tenant Veeam backup servers counts all managed VMs that are processed on those backup servers. For example, if the SP installs a Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license for 10 VMs on 2 different tenant backup servers, they can manage 10 VMs in total (not 10 VMs for each tenant and 20 VMs in total).

Veeam Backup & Replication offers a 60-day grace period to ensure a smooth license update procedure. Upon license expiration, the tenant can use the Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license to process all workloads for the duration of the grace period.

In some situations, the number of used points may exceed the license limit. For example, this may happen when some machines are temporarily processed for testing reasons and stop being processed after some time.

For the Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license, Veeam Backup & Replication offers the 60-day grace period. Within this period, the Rental Veeam Backup & Replication license allows the tenant to use up to 20 more points or 20% more points than specified in the license (depending on which resulting number of points is greater), plus the number of new points from the previous calendar month.

Until the license limit is exceeded for more than 20% or 20 points, plus the number of new points from the previous month, Veeam Backup & Replication continues to process all protected workloads with no restrictions. Newly added workloads are processed on the First In First Out basis when free license slots appear due to older workloads no longer being processed. When the license is exceeded by more than 10% or 10 points, Veeam Backup & Replication displays a notification with the number of exceeded points and the number of points by which the license can be further exceeded. Veeam Backup & Replication displays this warning once a week when backup console opens.

If the license limit is exceeded for more than 20% or 20 points, plus the number of new points from the previous month, all workloads that use points exceeding the licensed number plus the allowed increase are no longer processed. Every time the backup console opens, Veeam Backup & Replication displays a notification with the number of points by which the license is exceeded.

Hi, I have downloaded a trial of Veeam Office 365 backup after hearing how good it was in several places as we currently use another product but it's not the best in terms of features. Initial setup was simple enough but when it came to running the backup job, the performance was dreadfully slow. Averaging between 500-800kbps, it will take months to backup at this rate! Bandwidth is not an issue, we have a leased line and easily get 200meg down.
Surely something must be wrong? I have read about auxiliary accounts but that option is greyed out for me...? I have the latest version, downloaded only last week. A bit disappointing since the rest of it seems to be pretty sweet.

Seeing that rate it will definitely be throttling on the MS side playing a part. You need to be able to set up the Aux accounts to use for backups which help improve on speed. You may need to work with the person that is the O365 Admin to do this or have the account you are working with changed to Admin in the system as it sounds like it might not be.

You can also check this page about the Aux accounts as it has links to other pages including how to use PowerShell to add the accounts - Office 365 Backup: Auxiliary accounts, cloud to cloud (veeam.com)

I'm experiencing similar problems with M365 backups, where the speed is around 14-16MB/s when only backing up mailboxes. The bottleneck seems to be the source according to the job analysis. Is it normal to have this throughput when backing up mailboxes from M365? Can disabling EWS and Powershell throttling improve the speed in this situation? What speeds are others achieving in this regard?

The standard software trial testing period is 30 to 60 days. The trial version of the software includes full functionality. After the end of the testing period, the program allows you to insert an activation key (license) and continue backup without additional system reinstallation.

We are offering 1 month free trials of Veeam backup software with eSilo Cloud Storage. Please call now to create your account 1 (800) 747-9255. In the meantime you may begin downloading and installing the Veeam backup software.

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