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VEEAM BACKUP WITH NUTANIX

  • July 25, 2025
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I have an infrastructure operating on a Nutanix Cluster and Prism Element, and I have integrated it with VEEAM Backup. I possess a socket-based license for VEEAM, and the cluster appears online in VEEAM. There are about 15 VMs in my infra, and I have set up a job to back up all the VMs which are within the cluster, I start the job and observed that it is not utilizing the socket license. Instead, it's recognizing an instance-based approach and only backing up a few VMs, with the rest displaying a license overutilization error. Can any one let me know How Nutanix works with VEEAM, is it a socket based license or instance based license only.

Best answer by lukas.k

Hi ​@himanshusince1989,

Veeam and Nutanix only work with the new VUL (Veeam Universal License) model, not the “old” socket model. This uses an instance-based approach.

Licensing - Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV User Guide

Veeam Universal License (VUL)

 

Best regards

Lukas

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  • July 25, 2025

Hi ​@himanshusince1989,

Veeam and Nutanix only work with the new VUL (Veeam Universal License) model, not the “old” socket model. This uses an instance-based approach.

Licensing - Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV User Guide

Veeam Universal License (VUL)

 

Best regards

Lukas