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Hi, I was not able to make a comment on the NFR Thread - so I had to create a new. 

Im a VMUG member and have introduced Veeam to a number of customers and I’m running it in my homelab on NFR licenses. 20 VMs is a challenge as I have over 100 VMs but now I’m protecting the 20 most critical. 

Just recently i decided to use Veeam for my Fileshare as well as this would allow me to easilly create a cloud backup job (S3) as well as a tape job (I have an LTO-6 FC tape in the lab) 

However its not clear how Fileshare licenses is done, I assumed one Fileserver was one workload - but after I created one and copied 3TB or so of data I could no longer run any additional jobs. This was strange as my intention was to have a few fileserver backup jobs where secondary jobs would kick in - some fileshares would get an S3 copy, some would land on tape and so on. 

The license says (500G) and I have 6 instances, does this mean 3TB of data? 

Thanks. 

 

A workload equals 500 GB Fileshare data.

So you need a license for each 500 GB, the first 500 GB do not use a license.

​@JMeixner is right, in case you ran a file share backup you have to calculate 1 instance for each 500GB of data.

In case you simply do a VM backup (different job type) than you have to calculate 1 instance for each VM. It doesn’t matter how “big” your VM is - the job type makes the difference.

Also see this post here in the community as Michael Paul explains licensing file share backups.

https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/veeam-file-shares-licensing-feature-comparison-4861

 

Ah...right; forgot about Michael’s post from a couple yrs ago...good share Chris! 👍🏻

Ah...right; forgot about Michael’s post from a couple yrs ago...good share Chris! 👍🏻

Thanks as it helps 😁 

A workload equals 500 GB Fileshare data.

So you need a license for each 500 GB, the first 500 GB do not use a license.

Thanks for the really quck answer.

It seems i have some issue then as I currently have 8 Virtual Machine instances and 6 File Share instances in use, 14 in total and hence 6 free, meaning an additional 3TB of backups. 

This was mainly a PoC - Even if these FileShare instances are generous I dont want to “waste” Virtual Machine workloads so i have to be more careful. Thanks for the answer however. 

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