Veeam Availability Suite Socket Subscription Upgrade
Upgrade your Veeam Backup Essentials to the full Veeam Availability Suite for enhanced data protection and disaster recovery capabilities across your entire environment.
- Coverage for Data Protection: Access advanced backup, replication, and recovery features to safeguard critical business data.
- Coverage for Disaster Recovery: Entitlement to robust disaster recovery solutions ensuring business continuity during outages.
- Protection against Downtime: Minimize operational disruptions and data loss risks with proactive availability management.
- Access to Advanced Monitoring: Gain visibility into your backup infrastructure and performance with integrated monitoring tools.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This subscription upgrade transitions your existing Veeam Backup Essentials socket-based license to the comprehensive Veeam Availability Suite. It provides enhanced data protection, advanced monitoring, and disaster recovery capabilities designed to ensure business continuity and data resilience.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this solution integrates directly into existing virtual and physical environments. It supports businesses that rely on their IT infrastructure for daily operations, offering enterprise-grade availability without the associated overhead.
- Enhanced Data Protection: Secure backups and fast, reliable recovery for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads.
- Business Continuity: Ensure minimal downtime with advanced replication and failover capabilities.
- Centralized Monitoring: Gain deep insights into your backup environment's health and performance.
- Disaster Recovery Orchestration: Automate and test disaster recovery plans to guarantee readiness.
- License Simplification: Consolidate and upgrade your licensing for streamlined management.
This upgrade provides essential availability features for businesses seeking to strengthen their data protection and disaster recovery posture.
What This Enables
Access to Advanced Data Recovery Features
Access enhanced recovery options for faster and more granular restoration of data. This ensures critical business information is quickly available following any incident.
organizations with critical data assets, businesses with strict RTO/RPO requirements, teams managing diverse IT environments
Coverage for Disaster Recovery Planning
Entitlement to tools and features that facilitate the creation, testing, and execution of disaster recovery plans. This ensures business operations can resume quickly in the event of a major disruption.
businesses with physical locations, companies operating in high-risk environments, teams needing to validate DR readiness
Protection against Operational Downtime
Protection against extended periods of system unavailability through proactive monitoring and rapid failover capabilities. This minimizes financial losses and reputational damage associated with downtime.
companies with 24/7 operational needs, businesses reliant on continuous service delivery, teams focused on uptime SLAs
Key Features
Veeam Backup & Replication
Provides reliable backup and fast recovery for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads, ensuring data availability.
Veeam ONE
Offers advanced monitoring, reporting, and alerting for backup infrastructure, enabling proactive management and issue resolution.
Disaster Recovery Orchestration
Automates and simplifies disaster recovery testing and execution, ensuring business continuity during outages.
Socket-Based Licensing
Provides flexible licensing based on the number of CPU sockets, simplifying management for virtualized environments.
Subscription Model
Offers predictable costs and access to the latest features and updates through an ongoing subscription.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data protection and rapid disaster recovery to meet regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust, making advanced availability features essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure continuous access to patient data and meet strict HIPAA compliance, necessitating robust backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and depend on uninterrupted operations, making data resilience and rapid recovery critical.
Manufacturing & Industrial
These businesses often operate critical production systems where downtime can lead to significant financial losses, requiring reliable data protection and business continuity solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Veeam Backup Essentials and Veeam Availability Suite?
Veeam Backup Essentials is a limited version designed for SMBs, while Veeam Availability Suite offers a broader set of features including advanced monitoring, disaster recovery orchestration, and broader platform support for larger or more complex environments.
How does socket-based licensing work?
Socket-based licensing is based on the number of physical CPU sockets on your host servers. Each socket with a running virtual machine requires a Veeam license.
Can this upgrade be applied to existing Veeam installations?
Yes, this upgrade is designed to transition your current Veeam Backup Essentials socket-based subscription to the full Veeam Availability Suite, enhancing your existing deployment.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.