Or they start containerizing a lot of stuff so you're not working strictly with virtual machines in the classic sense.īasically, with my clients and their shrinking IT teams, some workloads are being moved out of local VMs to other platforms constantly getting them on VUL means that nothing needs to change and the backups can be ready as soon as the workload is, and my experience is that usually they don't add additional applications to the virtual environment to replace it, they just reuse the resources on other applications (meaning the workload density on the hosts goes down over time). Or they move some DBs to similarly hosted solutions. A local file server for some serves better as a File Gateway on some cloud, so the responsible team moves it to that. And a lot of workloads are changing as technology updates. Suddenly, your client requests to protect MS365 data/Azure Files/EC2 instances/whatever you can be ready to go 'now' without a single change on the licensing side. However, if you're going to introduce or explore basically any other type of workload, VUL really simplifies it and it's far easier to expand and know what to expand (since there's just the one option that applies for all). As Regnor said also, even if you think you'd never use those other features ENT+ gives, you'd be surprised how many times clients start to explore the new features and really get into them.īut I think Veeam has said plenty of times that if your use case has no need for such things, then just stick with sockets. I get this comes down to just 'play nicer with Veeam's licensing', but sockets are only viable for a single workload type, while VUL is applicable to any. You move from limitless _virtual machine only_ workloads to more defined amounts of any workloads.

> one is still moving from limitless workloads to a finite number of workloads? Not trying to pass the buck, but just want to make sure you're talking to the right people. Support though won't be able to give you the answer you seek as we just don't have any say in the end contract.Īt best, we can maybe help get you in contact with your sales/renewals rep if you aren't already (feel free to open a General case to ask for help), but Support itself has no role in the sales/renewal process. The Support Team itself doesn't deal with this and as far as I know the exact rate tends to be discussed on a case by case basis, but it starts at 7:1 like Jorge said. (I appreciate your willingness to consider some good faith interpretations ) I think the answers you got from the Support Engineers are non-committal just because the Support Engineers honestly aren't able to give you such an answer and don't want to tell you something wrong and give you the impression we're doing a shell game or something on you. Just from the Support Side, continue to work with Sales/Renewals on the details and request escalation to the sales/renewals manager if there are concerns.

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