Licensing schemes
Subscription licenses for Acronis Cyber Protect 15 are valid for 1, 3, or 5 years. The subscription period starts on the license purchase date. After a subscription expires, all product functionality except recovery will be blocked until further subscription renewal. Backed-up data is still accessible for recovery.
Additionally, space in Acronis Cloud Storage can be purchased. Cloud storage licenses are volume subscriptions valid for 1, 3 or 5 years. Cloud storage is licensed by the amount of storage allocated in Acronis cloud regardless of the number of machines.
Operations, not installations, are licensed in Acronis Cyber Protect. Management components (Acronis Management Server, Acronis Storage Node and Acronis Backup Appliance) do not require additional licenses, you only need licenses for machines\hosts you want to perform operations with.
Licenses
Acronis Cyber Protect 15 has 4 editions:
- Acronis Cyber Protect Standard
- Acronis Cyber Protect Advanced
- Acronis Cyber Protect - Backup Standard *This edition is no longer available for new purchase.
- Acronis Cyber Protect - Backup Advanced
Different licenses are available for different workloads, please refer to the table below:
| Acronis Cyber Protect | ||||
| Standard | Advanced | Backup Standard | Backup Advanced | |
| Workload type: | ||||
| Workstation | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Windows Server Essentials | YES | NO | YES | NO |
| Server | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Virtual Host | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Universal License | NO | YES | NO | YES |
| Microsoft 365 | NO | NO | YES | YES |
| Google Workspace | NO | NO | YES | YES |
| Protected Workload | Valid for |
| Workstation |
1 license per one physical or virtual machine (Windows desktop operating systems, OS X) *** Please note: This license does NOT support Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint or Active Directory backup. If you want to back up Microsoft applications installed on Workstation OS, a Server license edition is needed |
| Windows Server Essentials |
1 license per one physical or virtual machine with Windows Server Essentials, with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included Workload type Windows Server Essentials is suitable for the following operating systems:
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| Server |
1 license per one physical or virtual machine running Windows or Linux (server operating system), with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, and Active Directory included. *** |
| Virtual Host (Standard edition) |
1 license per one physical host and virtual machines on it (VMware, Hyper-V, Scale Computing HC3 or Virtuozzo*) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included. A single license is required to back up the host and all virtual machines on 1 host along with Exchange Server/SQL Server/SharePoint Server/Active Directory databases running on these machines. When using the product on a cluster, each host in the cluster requires a license. |
| Virtual Host (Advanced edition) |
1 license per one physical host and all virtual machines (VMware, Hyper-V, Scale Computing HC3, Virtuozzo *, RHEV, KVM, XEN, Oracle VM, Nutanix) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Active Directory and Oracle DB included ** A single Acronis Cyber Protect license is required to back up the host and all virtual machines on 1 host along with Exchange Server/SQL Server/SharePoint Server/Active Directory databases running on these machines. When using the product on a cluster, each host in the cluster requires a license. |
| Universal License |
1 license per one machine, physical or virtual, or one physical host (VMware, Hyper-V, Scale Computing HC3, Virtuozzo *, RHEV, KVM, XEN, Oracle VM, Nutanix) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Active Directory and Oracle DB included When using the product on a cluster, each host in the cluster requires a license. |
| Microsoft 365 |
1 license for 5, 25 or 100 seats. One seat refers to either a Microsoft 365 user, a shared mailbox, an MS team or a public folder. One |
| Google Workspace |
1 license for 5, 25 or 100 seats |
* Agent for Virtuozzo backup is available in Cloud Deployment only
** Backup of KVM, Citrix, OracleVM, RHEV virtual machines, in agent-based mode, requires Acronis Cyber Protect Advanced license or Acronis Cyber Protect - Backup Advanced license. Please see https://kb.acronis.com/node/62585 for more information.
*** In case of agent installation inside VM and agent-based backup, the following rules apply:
- Advanced license is required under the following hypervisors: XenServer, KVM, RHV, Oracle VM Server
- A standard license can be used under VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Scale Computing, Virtuozzo.
- workload type (a Virtual Host and an Universal license will not work);
- edition (a Standard and an Advanced will not work);
- time limit (a perpetual and a subscription will not work).
Acronis Cloud Storage licenses
Cloud storage is available as a 1-, 3-, or 5-year subscriptions with these quotas:
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 250 GB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 500 GB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 1 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 2 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 3 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 4 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 5 TB
The quota is shared among all the machines registered in the account.
(!) Acronis Cloud Storage is an add-on that requires a base Acronis Cyber Protect license.
Cloud trial period is 30 days. Cloud Storage trial is activated alongside Acronis Cyber Protect trial when downloaded from the Acronis website.
Notifications are sent to registration email prior to the subscription expiration. 30 days after Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription expiration date the backups are removed from the Cloud Storage.
Licensing of mobile devices
Backup of mobile devices is enabled once an Acronis Cloud Storage quota is registered in the account. You can back up an unlimited number of mobile devices as long as Acronis Cloud Storage quota suffices.
Acronis Disaster Recovery Add-on licenses
Acronis Disaster Recovery service is available as 1-year subscriptions with different pre-set values for CPU cores, RAM and storage:
- Extra Small Instance (1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 150GB, 750 running hours)
- Small Instance (1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 250GB, 750 running hours)
- Medium Instance (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB, 750 running hours)
- Large Instance (16 vCPU, 64GB RAM, 2TB, 750 running hours)
Note that Acronis Disaster Recovery is only feasible for cloud deployment and requires an active Acronis Cyber Protect subscription.
More information
- Starting from Update 3 (Build 28035), Acronis Cyber Protect uses centralized license management in the cloud console.
- Terminal servers/multipoint servers require 1 license per physical machine.
- A single license is required to use the software for the protection of a single device. If you do not install the software on the device and use it via bootable media, a separate license is required for each protected device.
- Management Server can only be installed on Windows or Linux. If you have an environment with Macs only (or a single Mac to protect) it is recommended to use a subscription license with Cloud deployment. See User Guide for more information on Cloud deployment.
- The complete licensing policy can be found here.
- For more information about different licensing scenarios and environments see Acronis Cyber Protect 15: licensing and upgrade/downgrade FAQ