VEEAM UNIVERSAL LICENSE
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From Your Veeam Investment
- Lower long-term cost
- VUL adds coverage, not reduces
- 6 new workloads supported with v13.1
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Staying on legacy socket licenses means paying more over time for less flexibility, less visibility, and more exposure to the same risks VUL was built to close.
By consolidating workloads under one modern license, you:
- Reduce attack surfaces tied to legacy deployments
- Eliminate configuration gaps across environments
- Gain faster, cleaner recoveries from ransomware and malware incidents
Convert to VUL for pricing built to scale with you
- Avoid the compounding cost of legacy socket license increases
- Full-featured Veeam experience today
- Scales with you as your environment grows
What is Veeam Universal License?
Built on Strength. Ready for What's Next.
VUL is a portable license that works across any workload within Veeam Data Platform: Virtual, physical, or cloud. VUL builds on the same trusted Veeam foundation, adding more freedom, flexibility, and robust security capabilities to meet today's challenges with confidence.
The added portability means you can move protection anywhere without additional fees or lock-in, simplifying ordering and management while reducing SKU sprawl. Sold as annual subscriptions, VUL lets you start small and scale confidently as your needs grow.
How VUL Benefits Your Business
Robust Security Capabilities
Gain advanced threat detection, immutability options, and secure configuration by default.
Simplicity, Portability, and Flexibility
Protect any workload (cloud, virtual, physical, or SaaS) under one license, preventing license sprawl and complexity.
Future-Proof and Scalable
Unlock new features, like the Veeam Software Appliance, along with expanded workloads as Veeam Data Platform evolves.
Cost Savings, Predictability, and Zero Lock-In
Pay only for what you use, with clear visibility, no hidden fees, and no lock-in. Get the right-size protection without the guesswork.
We manage more than 300 TB of data with 16-18% data growth annually, so Veeam's scalable model was very commercially attractive. Veeam's universal licensing model has saved us more than $56,000 in capital expenditure.
Sudeep Maydeo
Head of IT and CISO, EPL Limited
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 Is Here
Resilience Rehearsed. Recovery Proven.
The latest release brings AI-powered threat detection across every surface, identity recovery in minutes instead of days, and support for more platforms than ever, Sangfor, XCP-ng, and beyond.
VUL Fuels True Data Portability and Hypervisor Choice
| Perpetual Socket License | Veeam Universal License (VUL) | |
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| All other hypervisors: Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Scale HyperCore, Oracle Linux VM, Morpheus VM Essentials NEW Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, XenServer, XCP-ng, Sangfor aSV, VergeIO, Platform9 |
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| Cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud | |
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| Physical: Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, Solaris | |
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| Enterprise apps & databases: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP HANA & MaxDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, IBM Db2 NEW Epic EHR |
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| Unstructured data: NAS, file shares, object storage | |
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| Identity: Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory | |
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The move from socket licensing to VUL was completely seamless. With one flexible license covering our physical, virtual, and cloud workloads, management is far simpler, and scalability is effortless. It's made our data protection strategy more agile and future-ready.
Paul Sylvester
Head of IT, Curtiss-Wright Round Rock & Wimborne
Looking to protect cloud workloads?
As you consider your future data protection strategy, explore Veeam Data Cloud, a fully managed backup service for Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, and Salesforce.
With no backup infrastructure to deploy or maintain, Veeam Data Cloud delivers industry-leading data resilience, built-in security, and simplified operations in a unified SaaS platform, helping protect critical cloud data while reducing operational overhead.
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FAQ
Will my price go up?
Often not. Many socket deployments see lower costs with VUL. In addition, socket licensing prices generally increase more rapidly over time, making VUL an attractive long-term option for many customers
Will I lose access to features or my backup data?
No. Your backups, retention policies, and feature access remain unchanged. VUL also expands what you can protect by covering a broader range of workloads under a single license.
I'm happy with what I have. Why change?
Socket licensing is tied to your hardware. As your environment changes, VUL gives you the flexibility to protect new workloads without changing licensing models.