Socket licenses protect all vSphere and Hyper-V VMs when present
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- Licensing Policy v19 (June 2026) §1.2: "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." In a merged key, the Socket package determines available features and the edition follows the Socket License Key (§1.2, §1.6, §1.11.2).
- Applies when
- Installing a Socket and a VUL key side by side or merging them.
- Applies to
- Environments combining Socket and VUL License Keys (Veeam Backup & Replication v10 and later).
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