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Feature Free Edition Standard Edition Notes Backup VeeamZIP 1 VM at a time 1 or more VMs VeeamZIP performs an ad hoc, one-time backup of one or more VMs. With Standard Edition, you can backup one or more VMs at a time. With Free Edition, you’re limited to one VM at a time. Backup jobs A backup job backs up one or more VMs, typically on a scheduled basis, with multiple restore points and a specified retention policy. Standard Edition includes backup jobs; Free Edition does not. Incremental backups Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups are full backups only. Scheduled backups Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups are ad hoc only. Application-aware processing Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups use the hypervisor’s built-in application-level quiescing functionality. Backup jobs perform advanced application-aware processing steps, including truncation of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server transaction logs. Compression VeeamZIP compresses data to reduce the size of the backup file. It also removes zero-byte blocks and excludes swap files. Veeam® offers a free version of its award-winning Veeam Backup & Replication ™ software. The free version, Veeam Backup ™ Free Edition, provides a subset of the functionality in the paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam Backup Free Edition provides a number of powerful utilities for managing virtual machines (VMs). It complements your regular backup tool by providing easy ad hoc backups of individual VMs. And it provides flexible recovery, with the ability to restore the entire VM or individual VM files, guest files, and Microsoft Exchange items directly from the backup. Free Edition does have a number of limitations, including: • Full backups of individual VMs only—no scheduled, incremental or multi-VM backups • No vPower® capabilities (however, you can import VeeamZIP™ backups into the paid editions and use vPower capabilities there) • No VM replication • No scripting The following chart details the differences between Veeam Backup Free Edition and Veeam Backup & Replication Standard Edition. (Free Edition does not include any of the additional functionality in Enterprise Edition.) Veeam Backup Free Edition Free vs. paid: What’s the difference? Easy upgrade The free and paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication use the same download and install, with functionality controlled by the presence or absence of a license key. • Operates in free mode when no license key is present, or when an expired license key is present. There is no limit on the number of hosts, sockets or VMs. • The paid editions require a valid (unexpired) license key, and are limited to the number of host CPU sockets specified for each hypervisor (VMware and Hyper-V) in the license key. You can easily upgrade to a paid version—simply install a license key. To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com PRODUCT BULLETIN
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Comparison between free and full Veeam Backup and Replication Solution.
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FeatureFree
EditionStandard Edition Notes
BackupVeeamZIP
1 VM at a time
1 or more VMs
VeeamZIP performs an ad hoc, one-time backup of one or more VMs. With Standard Edition, you can backup one or more VMs at a time. With Free Edition, you’re limited to one VM at a time.
Backup jobs A backup job backs up one or more VMs, typically on a scheduled basis, with multiple restore points and a specified retention policy. Standard Edition includes backup jobs; Free Edition does not.
Incremental backups Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups are full backups only.
Scheduled backups Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups are ad hoc only.
Application-aware processing Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups use the hypervisor’s built-in application-level quiescing functionality.
Backup jobs perform advanced application-aware processing steps, including truncation of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server transaction logs.
Compression VeeamZIP compresses data to reduce the size of the backup file. It also removes zero-byte blocks and excludes swap files.
Veeam® offers a free version of its award-winning Veeam Backup & Replication™ software. The free version, Veeam Backup™ Free Edition, provides a subset of the functionality in the paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam Backup Free Edition provides a number of powerful utilities for managing virtual machines (VMs). It complements your regular backup tool by providing easy ad hoc backups of individual VMs. And it provides flexible recovery, with the ability to restore the entire VM or individual VM files, guest files, and Microsoft Exchange items directly from the backup.
Free Edition does have a number of limitations, including:
• Full backups of individual VMs only—no scheduled, incremental or multi-VM backups
• No vPower® capabilities (however, you can import VeeamZIP™ backups into the paid editions and use vPower capabilities there)
• No VM replication
• No scripting
The following chart details the differences between Veeam Backup Free Edition and Veeam Backup & Replication Standard Edition. (Free Edition does not include any of the additional functionality in Enterprise Edition.)
Veeam Backup Free Edition Free vs. paid: What’s the difference?
Easy upgrade The free and paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication use the same download and install, with functionality controlled by the presence or absence of a license key.
• Operates in free mode when no license key is present, or when an expired license key is present. There is no limit on the number of hosts, sockets or VMs.
• The paid editions require a valid (unexpired) license key, and are limited to the number of host CPU sockets specified for each hypervisor (VMware and Hyper-V) in the license key.
You can easily upgrade to a paid version—simply install a license key.
To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com
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FeatureFree
EditionStandard Edition Notes
Backup (continued)
Deduplication VeeamZIP deduplicates data in the backup. However, with Free Edition, the backup is limited to a single backup of a single VM, so the deduplication ratio is typically minimal.
Windows guest file indexing Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups do not offer Windows guest file indexing. Backup jobs can index the guest file system when backing up a Windows VM, to facilitate search/recovery of Windows guest files.
RestoreVM recovery Both editions support recovery of an entire VM on the original
host or on a different host.
VM file recovery Both editions support recovery of individual VM files.
Instant VM Recovery Free Edition does not include vPower or Instant VM Recovery.
Instant File-Level Recovery Both editions support recovery of individual guest files inside the VM directly from the backup.
Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange
Browse, search and restore individual items (emails, notes, contacts, etc.) from mailboxes and mailbox stores inside backups, without first restoring the backup.
Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots
Restore individual VMware VMs, guest files and Exchange items from HP StoreVirtual VSA and LeftHand snapshots.
ReplicationVM replication Free Edition contains no VM replication, failover or failback
capabilities.
ArchitectureDistributed architecture Standard Edition offers a fully distributed architecture, with one
or more backup servers and one or more backup proxy servers running on the same or different machines, with automatic intelligent load balancing across backup proxy servers.
Free Edition is limited to a single backup server and a single backup proxy server running on the same machine.
Support for remote backup repositories
Free Edition can backup to local storage, locally attached storage and CIFS (SMB) network shares only. It does not support remote agent-enabled backup repositories (for example, to optimize data transfer across the WAN).
Multi-hypervisor support Both editions support both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V (standalone hosts and through vCenter Server/SCVMM).
Support for all VMware access modes
Both editions support Direct SAN, Hot Add and Network access modes.
Hyper-V backup
On-host only On- or off-host
Free Edition supports on-host Hyper-V backups only. Standard Edition also supports off-host backups to offload backup processing from the host to a dedicated server.
Windows-based console Both editions include a Windows-based console. By default, Free Edition presents a reduced UI with only the functionality available in Free Edition; the full UI can be presented, if desired.
To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com
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FeatureFree
EditionStandard Edition Notes
Architecture (continued)
PowerShell and command-line scripting
Standard Edition includes a PowerShell Snap-in for automating backup and replication activities via scripts. Free Edition does not include any scripting capabilities.
Veeam Enterprise Manager Veeam Enterprise Manager provides a web-based interface for monitoring and managing backup jobs, managing Virtual Lab requests and searching/recovering Windows guest files.
OtherFile Manager Both editions provide file management capabilities
(the functionality previously provided by Veeam FastSCP™).
VM Copy for VMware In addition to creating a backup or replica, Standard Edition can create a complete copy of a VMware VM on any storage.
Quick Migration for VMware Both editions allow you to migrate VMs between hosts and/or datastores using native VMware or Veeam migration technologies.
Technical support
Limited Full
Technical support for Free Edition is available online via Customer Center. You can browse the knowledge base and submit support cases (but no guaranteed response).
To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com
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