Cisco APIC Medium Virtual Appliance 3-Year Subscription
The Cisco APIC Medium Virtual Appliance 3-Year Subscription provides essential platform licensing for advanced network management and automation, ensuring your infrastructure remains compliant and efficient.
- License Term: Enjoy 3 years of continuous access to Cisco's advanced Application Policy Infrastructure Controller features.
- Virtual Appliance: Deployable on your chosen virtualized environment, offering flexibility and integration.
- Platform Licensing: Unlocks critical management, automation, and policy enforcement capabilities for your data center network.
- Compliance & Security: Maintain regulatory adherence and enhance your network's security posture with up-to-date software features.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 3-year subscription license for the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) Medium Virtual Appliance. It enables advanced capabilities for managing, automating, and securing your data center network infrastructure, ensuring continuous access to software updates and support.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market organizations utilize this virtual appliance license to gain centralized control over their network fabric, implement consistent policies, and streamline operations. It integrates into existing virtualized environments, providing a scalable solution for complex network demands.
- Centralized Network Management: Gain a single pane of glass for policy creation, enforcement, and monitoring across your entire network fabric.
- Automation Capabilities: Automate repetitive tasks, reducing manual errors and accelerating service delivery.
- Policy-Driven Infrastructure: Define and enforce network policies consistently, ensuring security and compliance.
- Scalable Virtual Deployment: Deploy the APIC software on your preferred hypervisor, allowing for flexible scaling as your needs grow.
- 3-Year Subscription: Provides predictable costs and ensures access to the latest software features and support for an extended period.
This Cisco APIC virtual appliance subscription is ideal for mid-market businesses seeking to modernize their data center network management with enterprise-grade automation and control.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate the deployment and management of network services and policies. Streamline complex network configurations, reducing manual effort and accelerating application delivery.
virtualized data centers, hybrid cloud environments, software-defined networking deployments, multi-tenant infrastructure
Centralize Policy Management
Streamline the creation and enforcement of consistent network and security policies across the entire data center fabric. Automate policy updates to maintain compliance and reduce configuration drift.
regulated industries, multi-site operations, security-conscious IT departments, compliance-driven environments
Enhance Network Visibility and Control
Provide IT professionals with a unified view of network operations, enabling better troubleshooting and performance monitoring. Gain granular control over application network profiles and connectivity.
complex network architectures, performance-sensitive applications, IT teams managing large-scale deployments, environments requiring detailed analytics
Key Features
Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
Provides a single point of control for managing network, security, and application policies in a Cisco ACI environment.
Virtual Appliance Deployment
Offers flexibility to deploy on common hypervisors, integrating seamlessly into existing virtualized data centers.
Policy-Driven Automation
Automates network provisioning and configuration based on defined application requirements, reducing manual errors and speeding up deployments.
3-Year Subscription Term
Ensures predictable budgeting and continuous access to software updates, security patches, and vendor support for an extended period.
Centralized Management Interface
Simplifies network operations by providing a unified dashboard for monitoring, troubleshooting, and policy management.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, strict compliance, and high availability for their trading and customer data platforms, making centralized policy control essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to stringent data privacy regulations like HIPAA, necessitating secure, auditable, and consistently managed network infrastructure for patient records.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often involve complex, interconnected systems requiring reliable network performance and security to ensure operational continuity and prevent disruptions.
Education & Research
Universities and research institutions manage large, dynamic networks with diverse user needs, benefiting from automated policy deployment and simplified management for efficient resource allocation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco APIC Medium Virtual Appliance?
The Cisco APIC Medium Virtual Appliance is a software-based controller that provides centralized management, automation, and policy enforcement for Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) data center solution. The 'Medium' designation typically refers to the capacity or scale it supports.
What does the 3-year subscription include?
The 3-year subscription includes the right to use the APIC software for that duration, along with access to software updates, bug fixes, security patches, and technical support from Cisco.
Can this be deployed on any server?
This is a virtual appliance, meaning it is designed to run on a hypervisor platform such as VMware ESXi or KVM. Specific hardware requirements for the virtual machine will be detailed in Cisco's documentation.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.