Cisco UCS E-Series ESXi 5 Foundation License
The Cisco UCS E-Series ESXi 5 Foundation License provides essential virtualization capabilities for your Cisco UCS E-Series servers, enabling core hypervisor functions and ensuring operational continuity.
- Core Virtualization: Enables the foundational features of VMware ESXi 5 on Cisco UCS E-Series hardware.
- Operational Continuity: Ensures your virtualized environment can run critical business applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Provides a legitimate license for essential hypervisor software.
- Feature Access: Unlocks the necessary capabilities for basic server virtualization management.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco UCS E-Series ESXi 5 Foundation License is a software subscription that unlocks the core functionalities of VMware ESXi 5 for deployment on Cisco UCS E-Series servers. It provides the essential hypervisor capabilities required to run virtual machines, ensuring a stable and compliant virtualized environment for your business operations.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this license to establish or maintain a virtualized infrastructure on their Cisco UCS E-Series hardware. It is a fundamental component for businesses looking to consolidate servers, improve resource utilization, and deploy applications efficiently within their own data center or server room.
- Foundation for Virtualization: Enables the core VMware ESXi 5 hypervisor on Cisco UCS E-Series.
- Subscription-Based: Provides ongoing access to licensed software features.
- Hardware Specific: Designed for deployment on Cisco UCS E-Series server platforms.
- Compliance Ready: Ensures your virtualization software is properly licensed.
- Essential Features: Unlocks critical capabilities for running virtual machines.
This foundational license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing essential, compliant virtualization on their Cisco UCS E-Series servers.
What This Enables
Enable Core Server Virtualization
Enable teams to deploy and manage virtual machines on Cisco UCS E-Series servers. Streamline the consolidation of physical servers into a virtualized environment, improving resource utilization and reducing hardware footprint.
organizations with physical servers, businesses seeking server consolidation, teams managing on-premises infrastructure, companies with limited IT staff
Ensure Licensing Compliance
Automate the process of maintaining software license compliance for your virtualization layer. Protect your business from potential audits and penalties by ensuring all deployed hypervisor instances are properly licensed.
businesses undergoing IT audits, companies with strict regulatory requirements, organizations managing multiple server deployments, IT departments focused on risk mitigation
Support Business-Critical Applications
Provide a stable and licensed foundation for running critical business applications within a virtualized environment. Ensure uninterrupted service delivery by operating on a supported and feature-enabled hypervisor.
companies running core business software, organizations dependent on application uptime, businesses with virtualized workloads, IT teams prioritizing stability
Key Features
VMware ESXi 5 Hypervisor
Provides the core technology for running multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, enhancing hardware utilization and flexibility.
Cisco UCS E-Series Compatibility
Ensures seamless integration and optimal performance when deployed on specific Cisco UCS E-Series server models.
Subscription Licensing
Offers a predictable cost model for accessing essential virtualization software features over a defined term.
Foundation License Level
Unlocks the fundamental capabilities required for basic server virtualization without the complexity of advanced features.
Compliance Assurance
Guarantees that your virtualization software is legitimately licensed, mitigating risks associated with software audits.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust and compliant IT infrastructure to manage sensitive data and ensure high availability for trading and customer service operations, making licensed virtualization a critical component.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain strict data security and regulatory compliance (like HIPAA), necessitating licensed and well-managed IT systems, including virtualized environments for patient records and operational software.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on stable and efficient IT systems for production management, supply chain logistics, and operational control, often leveraging virtualization for resource optimization and application deployment.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle confidential client data and require reliable IT systems for case management and client communication, benefiting from the efficiency and stability of licensed virtualization.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco UCS E-Series ESXi 5 Foundation License?
This is a software license subscription that enables the core features of VMware ESXi 5 for use on Cisco UCS E-Series servers. It provides the essential hypervisor capabilities needed to run virtual machines.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically designed for and applies to Cisco UCS E-Series servers. It is not compatible with other server platforms.
What is the term of this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is valid for a specific term as defined by the subscription agreement. Continued use beyond the term requires renewal.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.