Veeam Evidence

Socket present protects all vSphere and Hyper-V sockets

Catalog row in Vendor License Evidence · Cited

Kind: Quote
Excerpt: When a Socket license is present, all VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V sockets will be protected with the Socket license, and all other workloads will be protected with VUL. Customers cannot protect some VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) with a socket license and the rest with VUL.
Locator: Licensing Policy v19 §1.2, Legacy Per-CPU Socket Offerings
Applies to: Socket + VUL environments
Supports rules: Socket licenses protect all vSphere and Hyper-V VMs when present
Related metrics: Socket
License Instance
Sources: Veeam End User Software Licensing Policy (v19, June 2026)