With the caveat being periodic indexation of a Socket renewal price, to account for growing VM density per socket due to hardware advancements (like we’ve already been doing for some time).“ Pricing shockīut, because there’s no standard process users like “pirx” can react by looking to move away from Veeam when they get a price shock.

In that circumstance “Veeam should just let those remaining customers stay on Socket for as long as they want. Also for lower edition customers, migrating to VUL can again be a great deal.”įor other customers this might not be the case. For instance, with low density customers, migrating to VUL Subscription can be quite the savings and we see lots of such customers migrating. He said: “The biggest challenge they are facing is that no particular customer is a reflection of all customers as it comes to migrating off of a Socket license. Gostev posted: “Such migrations are currently done on case-by-case basis, as exceptions and via a custom process.” There was no standard process because there was insufficuent demand for one. Just sillyĪnton Gostev, SVP for Product Management at Veeam, said there was a standard process for migrating Perpetual Socket licenses to VUL Subscription licenses but no similar process for migrating Perpetual Sockets to VUL Perpetual licenses. Existing socket-based Veeam licensees can face socket-to-instance conversion pricing problems when migrating to VUL, which have surfaced in the forum. They came in two flavors, both instance-based: Subscription and Perpetual. When Veeam introduced its Veeam Universal License (VUL) this portable license could be used interchangeably across Veeam products and workloads, whether they be virtual, physical or in the cloud. 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.

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