Veeam Data Platform Upgrade from Essentials Socket Subscription
Upgrade your Veeam Data Platform Essentials socket subscription to the Standard edition, providing enhanced data protection and recovery for your business operations.
- Enhanced Data Protection: Coverage for advanced backup, recovery, and disaster recovery features.
- Scalable Licensing: Protect more workloads and data with expanded socket licensing.
- Improved Recovery Times: Benefit from faster and more reliable data restoration capabilities.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain data integrity and meet regulatory requirements with robust features.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is an upgrade license for the Veeam Data Platform, moving from the Essentials Socket Subscription to the Standard edition. It provides enhanced data protection, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities designed for businesses that require more advanced features than the Essentials tier offers.
This upgrade is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who are already using Veeam Essentials and need to expand their data protection scope. It integrates directly into existing Veeam environments, enhancing the protection of servers, workstations, and critical business data.
- Advanced Backup & Recovery: Secure all your business data with reliable backup and rapid recovery options.
- Disaster Recovery Ready: Ensure business continuity with robust disaster recovery features.
- Expanded Workload Support: Protect a wider range of servers and endpoints with increased socket coverage.
- Simplified Management: Streamline data protection tasks with an intuitive interface.
- Data Security: Protect against ransomware and data loss with built-in security features.
Upgrade to Veeam Data Platform Standard to fortify your data protection strategy and ensure business resilience.
What This Enables
Enhanced Data Backup and Recovery
Enable teams to perform more frequent and reliable backups of critical business data. Streamline the recovery process to minimize downtime and data loss in the event of hardware failure or cyber threats.
on-premises servers, virtualized environments, cloud-based workloads
Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Organizations deploying advanced disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity. Protect against site-wide outages or major incidents with robust failover and recovery orchestration.
business continuity planning, multi-site operations, regulatory compliance needs
Expanded Workload Protection
Businesses migrating to or expanding their use of virtual and physical servers requiring more comprehensive protection. Automate the protection of a larger number of sockets to cover growing IT environments.
growing server infrastructure, mixed virtual and physical environments, data center consolidation
Key Features
Veeam Data Platform Standard Edition
Gain access to advanced data protection features beyond the Essentials tier, including enhanced recovery options and broader workload support.
Socket-based Licensing
Protect a greater number of virtual and physical workloads with flexible socket licensing, scaling to meet your growing needs.
Instant VM Recovery
Minimize downtime by recovering virtual machines directly from backup files in minutes, ensuring business operations continue with minimal interruption.
Data Loss Avoidance
Ensure business continuity with reliable backup and recovery processes that protect against data loss from hardware failures, human error, or cyberattacks.
Centralized Management
Simplify data protection management across your environment through a single, intuitive console.
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 disaster recovery solutions essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data (PHI) and ensure continuous availability of critical systems to comply with HIPAA and other regulations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Businesses in this sector rely on uninterrupted operations and the protection of production data, making robust backup and disaster recovery crucial for minimizing downtime and operational risks.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle confidential client information and require secure, reliable data protection to maintain client confidentiality and meet compliance standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Veeam Data Platform Essentials and Standard?
Veeam Data Platform Standard offers more advanced features, broader workload support, and enhanced disaster recovery capabilities compared to the Essentials edition. This upgrade allows you to access those advanced functionalities.
How does socket licensing work?
Socket licensing in Veeam covers virtual CPUs (vCPUs) assigned to virtual machines. Each socket license typically covers two CPU cores on a host. This upgrade provides the necessary licenses to cover your protected workloads.
Can this upgrade be applied to an existing Veeam installation?
Yes, this is an upgrade license designed to be applied to an existing Veeam Data Platform Essentials installation, transitioning it to the Standard edition.
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.