Veeam Data Platform Essentials Socket Subscription License
Veeam Data Platform Essentials socket subscription provides essential data protection for up to 2 CPU sockets, safeguarding your critical business data.
- Coverage for Data Protection: Ensures critical business data remains available and secure across your environment.
- Subscription-Based Licensing: Offers flexible, ongoing access to Veeam's data protection capabilities.
- Socket-Based Licensing: Provides clear and predictable licensing for virtualized environments based on CPU sockets.
- Enterprise-Grade Security: Protects against data loss and ensures business continuity with reliable backup and recovery.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Veeam Data Platform Essentials socket subscription license delivers enterprise-grade data protection designed for businesses needing reliable backup and recovery solutions. This subscription covers up to two CPU sockets, ensuring your virtualized workloads are protected against data loss and downtime.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-sized businesses who manage their own IT infrastructure. It integrates directly into your existing virtual environment, providing a foundational layer of data resilience without the complexity of enterprise-level management.
- Automated Backups: Schedule and run backups automatically to ensure data is consistently protected.
- Instant Recovery: Quickly restore files, applications, or entire virtual machines to minimize downtime.
- Data Security: Protect your data from ransomware and other threats with secure backup copies.
- Simplified Management: Easily manage your data protection environment through a single interface.
- Subscription Flexibility: Adapt to changing business needs with a scalable, subscription-based licensing model.
Veeam Data Platform Essentials offers SMB and mid-market teams a powerful yet accessible solution for critical data protection needs.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Data Availability
Enable teams to maintain business operations by ensuring critical data is always accessible. Streamline recovery processes to minimize disruption from hardware failures or cyber threats.
virtualized environments, on-premises infrastructure, business continuity planning, disaster recovery readiness
Protect Against Ransomware Attacks
Automate the creation of secure, immutable backup copies to safeguard against data corruption or deletion by ransomware. Protect against data loss and ensure rapid restoration of clean data.
cybersecurity strategy, data resilience, risk mitigation, IT security posture
Simplify Backup and Recovery Management
Streamline the management of backup jobs and recovery operations through a centralized console. Reduce the administrative burden on IT staff, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives.
IT operations, server administration, virtual machine management, operational efficiency
Key Features
Socket-based subscription licensing
Provides predictable costs and flexible access to essential data protection for up to 2 CPU sockets.
Automated backup and recovery
Ensures data is consistently protected and can be rapidly restored, minimizing downtime.
Ransomware protection
Safeguards critical data against malicious attacks and ensures business continuity.
Centralized management console
Simplifies the administration of backup and recovery tasks for IT staff.
Instant VM Recovery
Allows for immediate restoration of virtual machines, reducing operational impact during outages.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data protection and rapid recovery to meet strict regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust, making Veeam's reliable backup essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data (PHI) and ensure continuous availability of critical systems to comply with HIPAA and maintain patient care.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client data and require secure, reliable backup solutions to prevent data loss and meet client confidentiality obligations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on uptime for production systems and need to protect operational data, ensuring business continuity and preventing costly downtime.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a socket subscription license?
A socket subscription license is a licensing model where you pay a recurring fee for the right to use Veeam software for a defined period, based on the number of CPU sockets your virtual machines reside on.
What is the difference between Essentials and other Veeam editions?
Veeam Data Platform Essentials is designed for smaller environments, offering core data protection features for up to 2 sockets, making it a cost-effective solution for SMBs.
Can this license be used for physical servers?
Veeam Data Platform Essentials socket licensing is primarily designed for virtual environments. For physical servers, different licensing models may apply.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.