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Veeam Backup Essentials

# 1 Backup and Recovery for small business
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Powerful. Easy-to-use. Affordable.

Veeam® Backup Essentials™ delivers powerful, easy-to-use and affordable backup, recovery and monitoring for up to 50 workloads. With our simple and portable licensing model — Veeam Universal License (VUL) — it's more affordable than ever. You have the freedom to choose what to protect and when, all while your business grows.

One platform and one unified license to protect and manage ALL your apps and data, from a single UI:

Virtual  VMware | Hyper-V | Nutanix AHV
Physical  Windows | Linux | IBM AIX | Oracle Solaris | Mac | NAS
Cloud  AWS | Azure | Google | IBM
Applications  Microsoft | Databases | Kubernetes

Need to cover more than 50 workloads?

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Veeam Backup Essentials is powered by

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication™ delivers powerful and reliable data protection capabilities for cloud, virtual and physical workloads.

Veeam ONE

Veeam ONE™ provides monitoring and reporting for cloud, virtual and physical workloads, preventing the occurrence of potential problems.

CAPABILITIES

#1 Backup and Recovery for small business

Your small business needs a data protection strategy that “just works”, right? Veeam provides powerful capabilities that eliminate data loss, are easy to deploy and increase ROI.
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Reliable backup

Back up any workload and store them anywhere on‑premises or in the cloud with built-in replication at no additional cost. 

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Fast recovery

Tons of recovery options give you the ability to quickly recover just about anything — big or small — to any location.

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Ransomware protection

Ransomware-proof backups to easily isolate your data and protect it against cyberthreats at no extra cost.

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Powerful file protection

Protect all your files — from application items to NAS — and instantly recover whatever you need whenever you need it. 

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Cloud data portability

Migrate or recover any workload to AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform while keeping your backups safe from malicious attacks. 

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Storage flexibility

Create fast backups and replicas from snapshots by using hardware from almost any storage solution, without lock-in.

Protect your workloads with confidence

Veeam Backup Essentials is available in one- to five-year annual subscription bundles. The longer the annual subscription, the larger the discount. You can use your subscription to protect virtual machines (VMs), physical servers, NAS, cloud instances and more!

This product is licensed per-workload as a Veeam Universal License (VUL), which means it is portable and can be used to protect different workload types as your environment grows or changes. Veeam Backup Essentials is sold in five-license bundles for a maximum of 50 workloads (i.e., 10 bundles), specially priced at a discount for small businesses. It is billed upfront and includes 24.7.365 production support.

1-year subscription

7 USD per month MSRP

84 USD per year, per license*

 

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3-year subscription

6.65 USD per month MSRP

79.80 USD per year, per license*

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5-year subscription

6.30 USD per month MSRP

75.60 USD per year, per license*

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* Minimum purchase: 5-license bundle

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ADD-ONS

Veeam offers powerful add-ons to boost your data protection capabilities

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NAS Capacity Pack

NAS Capacity Pack for Veeam Backup Essentials is designed to protect your NAS data. It is sold in 1 TB increments, up to 50 TB.

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Control, manage and protect your Office 365 data.
 

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Veeam Backup Essentials FAQs

What is Veeam Backup Essentials?
Veeam Backup Essentials is a bundle that combines the powerful data protection features of Veeam Backup & Replication with the monitoring capabilities of Veeam ONE. When buying Veeam Backup Essentials you will be able to back up, recover, monitor and report virtual, physical and cloud workloads from a single console. This bundle is priced and packaged for the needs of small businesses with less than 250 employees and 50 workloads. Veeam Backup Essentials also offers 24.7.365 technical support.
How many licenses will I need to buy at minimum?
The minimum Veeam Backup Essentials license requirement is one bundle of five licenses.
How many workloads can I protect and monitor with one bundle of five Veeam Backup Essentials licenses?

With one bundle you can protect and monitor the following scenarios:

  • Five VMware/Hyper-V/AHV VMs
  • Five AWS/Azure/Google Cloud VMs
  • Five physical servers
  • 15 workstations
  • 2.5TB of NAS
  • Any combination of the above

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