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Veeam Backup Free Edition

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 anexpired license key is present. There is no limit on the number ofhosts, 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) inthelicensekey. You can easily upgrade toapaid versionsimply install alicensekey.

Free vs. paid: Whats the difference?

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 inthe 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 onlyno scheduled, incremental or multiVMbackups No vPower capabilities (however, you can import VeeamZIP backups into thepaid editions and use vPower capabilities there) No VM replication No scripting The following chart details the differences between Veeam Backup Free Edition andVeeam Backup & Replication Standard Edition. (Free Edition does not include any of the additional functionality in Enterprise Edition.)

Feature
Backup
VeeamZIP

Free Edition

Standard Edition

Notes

1 VM at a time Backup jobs

VeeamZIP performs an ad hoc, one-time backup of one or more VMs. With Standard Edition, you can backup one or more VMs at 1 or more VMs a time. With Free Edition, youre limited to one VM at a time. A backup job backs up one or more VMs, typically on ascheduled basis, with multiple restore points and a specified retention policy. Standard Edition includes backup jobs; FreeEdition does not. Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups are full backups only. Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups are ad hoc only. Free Edition performs VeeamZIP backups only. VeeamZIP backups use the hypervisors built-in application-level quiescingfunctionality. Backup jobs perform advanced applicationaware processing steps, including truncation of Microsoft Exchange andSQL Server transaction logs. VeeamZIP compresses data to reduce the size of the backup file. It also removes zero-byte blocks and excludes swap files.

Incremental backups Scheduled backups Application-aware processing

Compression

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Feature
Backup (continued)
Deduplication

Free Edition

Standard Edition

Notes
VeeamZIP deduplicates data in the backup. However, with Free Edition, the backup is limited to a single backup of a single VM, sothededuplication ratio is typically minimal. 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. Both editions support recovery of an entire VM on the original host or on a different host. Both editions support recovery of individual VM files. Free Edition does not include vPower or Instant VM Recovery. Both editions support recovery of individual guest files inside theVM directly from the backup. Browse, search and restore individual items (emails, notes, contacts, etc.) from mailboxes and mailbox stores inside backups, without first restoring the backup. Restore individual VMware VMs, guest files and Exchange items from HP StoreVirtual VSA and LeftHand snapshots. Free Edition contains no VM replication, failover orfailback capabilities. 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. 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). Both editions support both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V (standalone hosts and through vCenter Server/SCVMM). Both editions support Direct SAN, Hot Add and Network accessmodes.

Windows guest file indexing

Restore
VM recovery VM file recovery Instant VM Recovery Instant File-Level Recovery Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots

Replication
VM replication

Architecture
Distributed architecture

Support for remote backup repositories

Multi-hypervisor support Support for all VMware access modes Hyper-V backup On-host only Windows-based console

Free Edition supports on-host Hyper-V backups only. StandardEdition also supports off-host backups to offload On- or off-host backup processing from the host to a dedicated server. 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.

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Feature
Architecture (continued)
PowerShell and command-line scripting Veeam Enterprise Manager

Free Edition

Standard Edition

Notes
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 provides a web-based interface for monitoring and managing backup jobs, managing Virtual Lab requests and searching/recovering Windows guest files. Both editions provide file management capabilities (thefunctionality previously provided by Veeam FastSCP). In addition to creating a backup or replica, Standard Edition can create a complete copy of a VMware VM on any storage. Both editions allow you to migrate VMs between hosts and/or datastores using native VMware or Veeam migration technologies. 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).

Other
File Manager VM Copy for VMware Quick Migration for VMware Technical support Limited Full

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