Vembu BDR Suite Licensing
Vembu BDR Suite consists of three different types of editions with each edition introduced for a specific purpose. Get started with knowing the differences between the functionalities of these editions to make the best decision that fulfills the backup requirements of your business. Vembu also offers paid licenses for its customers which are of different types.
Perpetual License
- Perpetual licensing is a single time payment with which Vembu products can be used and this license is applicable especially for IT admins and for all public sectors, Govt org and will be valid for a time period of 10 years from the date of issue.
- This includes all standard 24/7 FREE technical support for the first year and from the second year users need to pay AMC(Annual maintenance cost) which includes both standard technical support and maintenance. The AMC can be paid on the note of yearly or can be paid for multiple years as per the requirement.
- In perpetual licensing only primary on-premise backups can be done if you want to go for the Offsite you need to purchase license. The following will not be offered under perpetual licensing Vembu CloudDR, Vembu BDR360, Vembu OnlineBackup and Vembu SaaSBackup.
Subscription License
- The Subscription license will expire once your subscription period comes to an end, the users can pay up for annual or periodically. Users generally subscribe for a period of 1-5 years depending on their requirement. The subscription based license is applicable for everyone including the Service providers(SP).
- With Subscription licensing user will have a 24/7 standard technical support throughout the license period.
Note: For Desktop backups, you need to purchase support license separately.
- In the case of perpetual and subscription based licensing, the license will be generated for the number of VMware and Hyper-V host physical CPU sockets mentioned.
- There is no restriction for the number of VM’s running on the particular host.
- With above licensing models Vembu offers you FREE edition, Standard Edition and Enterprise edition.
FREE edition
- Post 30 days trial version, you can either opt to purchase the product or continue using the free edition.
- The free edition is equivalent to that of standard edition and in case of configuring a backup job you have minimal restrictions in features only.
- You can proceed the backup with any VM plugin (VMware/Hyper-V).
- Maximum of 3 VM’s can be selected in the Full featured free edition backup (Full backup and incremental backups).
Note: You can configure only one Full featured free edition backup job, other new backup jobs will proceed with Limited settings (or) you can delete the previously configured full featured backup job from the server and re-configure a new full featured backup job.
- If you configure a new backup then the backup will proceed with some restrictions, such as retention policy, additional full backups, etc., will not be supported for the Limited edition backups.
- Once free edition is activated, In Vembu VMBackup only the first backup will be sent as full featured backup and the other backups from the clients will be sent as limited edition backups.
Standard edition
- You can configure any number of backup jobs with Standard edition and in configuring a backup job there are no feature restrictions, except VM replication and GFS retention.
Enterprise edition
- In Enterprise edition there are no feature restrictions, you can configure ‘n’ number of backups jobs and all the advanced features will be available for you backup job with this license.
- Check the edition-wise comparison of features here
