Many admins think Enterprise Manager replaces Veeam ONE. It does not. You need Enterprise Manager for self-service restores; you need Veeam ONE for alerting when backups fail.

The Enterprise Manager had detected a discrepancy. Their three-year, 500-socket contract with Veeam was showing 498 licenses in use, but the audit log reported 502 active workloads. Two phantom sockets. Or worse: two unlicensed hosts.

Many modern VUL subscriptions require active telemetry (License Usage Reporting) to stay compliant and avoid service interruptions.