Veritas

Veritas license enables organizations to activate and scale enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection capabilities across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It ensures you can access critical features while staying compliant with renewal and support requirements.

Quick Benefits

• Activate Core Features: Unlock backup, recovery, and availability capabilities immediately.
• Flexible Models: Choose between subscription, term-based, or perpetual models (where applicable).
• Scalable Metrics: Scale by capacity (TB), sockets, instances, or features depending on the product.
• Expert Sizing: We help map entitlements to your actual environment to prevent licensing gaps.

Veritas License: At a Glance

• What it does: Enables Veritas software functionality, capacity limits, feature bundles, and support eligibility for products like NetBackup and Backup Exec.
• Who needs it: Enterprises managing backup/recovery across data centers, VMware/Hyper-V, remote sites, and hybrid cloud storage.
• License Types: Subscription (most common), Perpetual (varies by product), and Term-based options.
• Typical Terms: 1, 3, or 5 years.
• Activation: License key or entitlement-based activation (implementation varies by product version).

License Overview

The Veritas License is the framework that activates your software features and defines how usage is measured, whether by protected capacity, socket count, or workload instances.

How it works: Your license determines exactly what functionality is available to your team, including backup, replication, deduplication, cloud connectors, and ransomware resiliency features. It also dictates how many systems are covered and confirms your eligibility for updates and support.

Models & Activation: Veritas license is commonly delivered as subscription entitlements in 1-, 3-, or 5-year terms. While some legacy deployments still use perpetual models, subscriptions are preferred for organizations prioritizing continuous security fixes and infrastructure compatibility. Activation generally involves applying license keys or registering entitlements, often mapped to specific capacity tiers (physical servers, virtual machines, cloud instances).

Sizing Strategy: Because metrics differ across product lines, you must align licensing units with your real backup scope, storage capacity, workload count, and retention needs. A correctly sized Veritas approach reduces compliance risk and ensures predictable renewal planning as your data footprint grows.

Options & Tiers

Licensing varies by Veritas product and edition, but buyers typically evaluate three main models:

Features & Benefits

• Enterprise Scale: Protect large environments with predictable licensing metrics, essential for multi-site operations.
• Flexible Metrics: Align licensing to how you actually consume backup (TB or workloads) to avoid overbuying.
• Active Support: Subscriptions keep you compatible with new hypervisor and OS versions, reducing long-term operational risk.
• Advanced Add-ons: Extend coverage for cloud, apps, reporting, and resilience to match your roadmap.

Compatibility & Requirements

Supported Environments

• Physical servers and enterprise storage.
• VMware / Hyper-V virtual infrastructure.
• Hybrid cloud storage and workloads.
• Databases and business applications.

Activation Guide For Veritas License

1. Identify: Confirm product, edition, and metric (TB/workload).
2. Select Model: Choose term or perpetual based on availability.
3. Receive: Get your entitlement/license details.
4. Apply: Enter the license key or entitlement in the console.
5. Confirm: Verify compliance and feature availability.

Pricing Factors

Veritas license pricing depends heavily on your licensing model and usage metrics.

Cost Drivers

• Model: Subscription vs. Perpetual (where applicable).
• Term: 1, 3, or 5-year duration.
• Metric: Protected capacity tiers (TB) vs. workload-based counts (VMs, instances, sockets).
• Capabilities: Advanced features like cloud connectivity, deduplication, and disaster recovery may be bundled or sold as add-ons.