Veeam Backup & Replication Upgrade from Essentials Socket Subscription
Upgrade your Veeam Backup Essentials to Veeam Backup & Replication for enhanced data protection and disaster recovery, ensuring business continuity for up to 50 sockets.
- Enhanced Protection: Gain access to advanced features for comprehensive data backup and recovery.
- Disaster Recovery: Coverage for critical business continuity scenarios, minimizing downtime.
- Scalability: Protection against data loss and system failures as your business grows.
- Compliance Assurance: Entitlement to features that support data retention and regulatory requirements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides an upgrade path from Veeam Backup Essentials Socket Subscription to the more robust Veeam Backup & Replication platform. It ensures your business data is protected with advanced backup, recovery, and replication capabilities, safeguarding against data loss and operational disruptions.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this upgrade fits into environments requiring reliable data protection. It supports businesses with on-premises infrastructure, cloud integrations, or hybrid deployments needing a unified backup solution.
- Advanced Backup Features: Access granular recovery options and multiple backup targets.
- Replication Capabilities: Ensure high availability and rapid disaster recovery.
- Broad Platform Support: Protect virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS workloads.
- Centralized Management: Simplify administration with a single console for all backup tasks.
- Performance Optimization: Benefit from features that reduce backup windows and network traffic.
This upgrade is the ideal solution for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to enhance their data protection strategy with a leading, feature-rich backup and replication platform.
What This Enables
Enhanced Data Protection and Recovery
Enable teams to perform granular restores of files, applications, or entire virtual machines quickly and efficiently. Streamline recovery processes to minimize business disruption and data loss.
virtualized environments, on-premises infrastructure, hybrid cloud deployments, business continuity planning
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Automate the creation of replica virtual machines for rapid failover in case of a disaster. Support business operations with near-zero downtime through advanced replication technologies.
mission-critical applications, high availability requirements, geographically dispersed operations, risk mitigation strategies
Unified Backup Management
Streamline the management of backup and recovery tasks across diverse workloads from a single console. Automate policy enforcement and reporting for improved operational efficiency.
multi-platform environments, centralized IT management, operational efficiency focus, compliance reporting needs
Key Features
Instant VM Recovery
Restore entire virtual machines in minutes, not hours, reducing downtime significantly.
Application-Aware Processing
Ensure consistent backups of applications like SQL Server and Exchange for reliable recovery.
Replication for Disaster Recovery
Maintain up-to-date copies of critical VMs at a secondary site for fast failover.
Cloud Tiering
Offload backup data to cloud object storage to reduce on-premises storage costs and improve retention.
Centralized Management Console
Simplify administration and monitoring of all backup and replication jobs from a single interface.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data protection and rapid recovery to meet regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust, making advanced backup and replication essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must ensure patient data availability and integrity, adhering to strict HIPAA regulations that necessitate robust backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Operational continuity is critical in manufacturing; this service protects production systems and data, minimizing costly downtime and ensuring supply chain reliability.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and have strict retention policies, requiring secure, reliable, and compliant data backup and archival.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Veeam Backup Essentials and Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam Backup Essentials is designed for smaller environments and has a more limited feature set. Veeam Backup & Replication is the full-featured enterprise-grade product offering advanced capabilities for larger or more complex environments, including enhanced replication, broader platform support, and more granular control.
What does 'Socket Subscription' mean for licensing?
Socket licensing means you are licensed per CPU socket on your virtual hosts. A subscription model indicates that the license is valid for a specific term, after which renewal is required to maintain support and access to the software.
Can this upgrade be applied to existing Veeam Backup Essentials installations?
Yes, this is specifically an upgrade path designed to transition your existing Veeam Backup Essentials socket subscriptions to the full Veeam Backup & Replication platform, allowing you to utilize its advanced features.
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.