I get emails and questions from service providers on how they can provide rental licensing and protect workloads for tenants that have workloads in the public cloud. It can be a little confusing on how they can deploy this and use the rental license, so I wanted to clear clouds for you. There’s two ways to manage these cloud workloads. And there is no way to apply a rental license directly to the public cloud appliance.
VCSP partners who want to utilize Rental licensing to manage and protect public cloud workloads have the following options to manage appliances centrally:
- Use the Veeam Backup for Public Clouds plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. This option is preferable if tenants do not have a Veeam Backup & Replication server already installed.
Veeam Service Provider Console offers integration with Veeam Backup for Amazon Web Services and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure to monitor and manage your Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure appliances in Veeam Service Provider Console.
Integration offers the following capabilities:
- Remote management. You can manage hosted Veeam Backup for Public Clouds appliances from Veeam Service Provider Console.
- Consolidated monitoring. You can consolidate information about licenses consumed by client and hosted Veeam Backup for Public Clouds appliances in Veeam Service Provider Console license usage reports.
This solution is intended for service providers who:
- Use Veeam Service Provider Console to manage and monitor data protection operations and license usage data.
- Manage client companies who has Veeam Backup for Public Clouds appliances in their infrastructure.
- Use Veeam Backup for Public Clouds to back up and restore Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure workloads.
- Connect the appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. This option also enables additional restore options to enable cross-platform, cross-cloud migration scenarios.
To manage and protect Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, VCSP partners can only connect the appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication server.
More information on deployment options can be found on VCSP Technical Hub. For general information, including step-by-step configuration support, see the Veeam Help Center.
Let’s talk a little bit about Licensing.
All workloads, protected by Veeam Backup for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are licensed per workload. You can create a single license to cover all types of workloads protected by a single Veeam Backup & Replication server. The license file can be generated and assigned to the backup server installation using VCSP Pulse plug-in for Veeam Service Provider Console. Alternatively, a new license file can be generated on the VCSP Pulse Portal by adding the Cloud VM workload type in the Manage Licenses > Request New License > Veeam Backup & Replication section.
Each workload under protection consumes the license at a rate in alignment with the VCSP Rental Point Per Unit (PPU).
Keep in mind that if you do not want to back up the workloads natively via the appliance you can still protect VMs located in public clouds, you can also use Veeam Agents. In this case, VMs will be reported as Workstation or Server depending on the backup policy configuration. For more information, see the Veeam Agent Computers section.
I hope this short post helps clear the clouds from protecting work loads with Veeam in the Public cloud.
