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Editions
Vinchin offers Essential, Standard and Enterprise editions to customers currently.
Essential Edition applies to small-businesses who use VMware and/or Hyper-v virtual infrastructure, has tight budget for a VM backup and recovery solution.
Standard Edition applies to SMBs who use either VMware, Hyper-v, XenServer or KVM virtual infrastructure, require advanced features on a backup solution.
Enterprise Edition applies to medium and large organizations who own comprehensive and complex virtual infrastructures.

Licenses
Vinchin offers Perpetual License and Subscription License to customers currently.
A Perpetual License allows you to use Vinchin Backup & Recovery without limitation of time. Which means one time pay, forever use! Vinchin Perpetual License is sold by the number of physical CPU sockets on target hosts.
A Subscription License allows you to subscribe the Vinchin Backup & Recovery every per 1-3 years to save your budget. It is subscribed by the number of virtual machines that you need to protect.

Editions Comparison Table
Features | Essential | Standard | Enterprise |
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VM Backup | |||
VMware vSphere / ESXi / vCenter / vSAN Backup | √ | √ | √ |
Microsoft Hyper-V Backup | √ | √ | √ |
Citrix XenServer Backup | × | √ | √ |
XCP-ng Backup NEW | × | √ | √ |
RedHat RHV / oVirt Backup | × | √ | √ |
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) Backup NEW | × | √ | √ |
Sangfor HCI Backup | × | √ | √ |
OpenStack Backup | × | × | √ |
Huawei FusionCompute Backup | × | × | √ |
VM-Level Backup (Protects all OS, applications, files and databases in VM.) | √ | √ | √ |
Application-aware Backup (Except Sangfor HCI, Openstack) | √ | √ | √ |
Full Backup | √ | √ | √ |
Incremental Backup | √ | √ | √ |
Forever Incremental Backup (Except Hyper-V) NEW | √ | √ | √ |
Differential Backup | √ | √ | √ |
Engine Backup (RHV/oVirt/OLVM ONLY) NEW | × | √ | √ |
Increase Backup / Recovery Speed | |||
Changed Block Tracking (For Vmware,XenServer, XCP-ng) | √ | √ | √ |
"SpeedKit" to improve the incremental backup speed (available for Hyper-V, XenServer & KVM hypervisor) | × | √ | √ |
LAN-Free data transfer (Except Hyper-V) | × | √ | √ |
Multithreaded data transfer (Except Hyper-V) NEW | × | √ | √ |
HotAdd backup and recovery with Proxy (VMware ONLY) NEW | × | √ | √ |
Secure Backup Data | |||
AES 256 encryption to secure data transmission | √ | √ | √ |
Save Storage Space | |||
Data Compression | √ | √ | √ |
Data Deduplication | √ | √ | √ |
BitDetector (Detect and exclude the unneccessary data like swap files, unpartitioned space when doing backups) | √ | √ | √ |
VM Recovery & Migration | |||
Full VM Recovery | √ | √ | √ |
Instant VM Recovery | √ | √ | √ |
File/Folder Level Recovery NEW | × | √ | √ |
Live Migration | √ | √ | √ |
Site Disaster Recovery | |||
Copy backups to multiple locations | × | √ | √ |
Archive backups to AWS, AlibabaCloud NEW | × | × | √ |
Centralized Configuration & Management | |||
Web Console - Unified Management Platform | √ | √ | √ |
Flexible Backup & Restore Scheduling | √ | √ | √ |
VM & Storage Reporting | √ | √ | √ |
Email Notification | √ | √ | √ |
Scale-out Storage (Support Partition, Local Disk, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel) | √ | √ | √ |
Backup Node Expansion | × | × | √ |
Multi-user Management | × | × | √ |
Data Visualization NEW | × | × | √ |
Integration with Deduplication Appliance | |||
EMC Data Domain | √ | √ | √ |
Quantum Dxi | √ | √ | √ |
HP StoreOnce | √ | √ | √ |
NEC HYDRAstor | √ | √ | √ |
File Backup & Recovery for Windows & Linux Server | |||
Windows File Backup and Recovery NEW | √ | √ | √ |
Linux File Backup and Recovery | √ | √ | √ |
Environment Limit | |||
VM Backup & Recovery | ≤ 6 Sockets | ≤ 10 Sockets | Unlimited |
File Backup & Recovery | Unlimited | ||
Licensing Mode | |||
VM Backup & Recovery | Perpetual License, Per CPU Socket | ||
File Backup & Recovery | Perpetual License, Per Server (Server can be virtual server, physical server, PC, laptop, workstation) |
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Support & Renewal | |||
Technical Support | Free for life | Free for life | Free for life |
Version Renewal | Free for 1 year | Free for 1 year | Free for 1 year |
Note:
*Perpetual licenses include free technical support for life and 1 year of version renewal service. From the second year on, a 25% of product MSRP value will be charged as Version Renewal fee per year, can be paid on-demand or upfront.
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