What Will Happen After Veeam Maintenance is Over?
Interesting there is a 10 years glass ceiling, it was never mentioned in their web site I guess.
If you open a license file with notepad, you will see that there are two expiration dates: one for support and one for the product. Each license is issued for 10 years, so if your support expires, you can use an existing installation until the product expiration date is reached. You will not, however, be eligible for support and product upgrades.
Thanks,
Andrey Beck
Veeam Software Support
I also want to know. The reseller said it is perpetual but it isn’t if you use notepad to view the license file.
If you click resend license file by email, you will have new expiry date as I remember.
Are there any response from them?
Regards,
microchan.
Yes, just received the new v6 license key as we renewed our licence this year.
Yes, the key has a new exp. date
No, it cannot be usd on v5.
I found that there is also a free upgrade from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0 as my company bought the license within one year.
However the problem is I need to stop using 4.1 after upgrade to 5.0 license, RAM limitation on 5.0 and no time to test the upgrade from 4.1 to vSphere 5.0
As far as I knew, 90% of the company using vSphere is still using 4.1 or below. In additional, there is some problem with Veeam v6 and vSphere 5.0, not to mention many things many not work on vSphere 5.0 as well, Equallogic MEM is one of them and Juniper Altor vGW firewall is another.
So as a rule of thumb for enterprise, we always suggest our clients to wait till x.1 such as ESX 4.1 or ESX 5.1, then they can safely perform the upgrade.
Finally, I hate to mention vSphere 5’s ram tax and EntPlus only has 96GB per socket, that’s why most of the users prefer to stay with ESX 4.1.