Cisco Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery Subscription
This Cisco subscription license provides essential backup and recovery capabilities for your virtual machines, ensuring data protection for up to 10 VMs.
- Access to: Advanced backup and recovery features for virtualized environments, safeguarding critical business data.
- Coverage for: Up to 10 virtual machines per license, offering scalable protection for your virtual infrastructure.
- Protection against: Data loss due to hardware failure, cyber threats, or accidental deletion, minimizing downtime.
- Entitlement to: Continued access to the latest software updates and security patches for reliable operation.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery subscription license unlocks essential data protection features for virtualized environments. It provides the necessary software entitlements to perform reliable backups and efficient recoveries for your virtual machines, ensuring business continuity and data integrity.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this license integrates into existing virtual infrastructure. It supports businesses running critical applications on platforms like VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V, where data resilience is paramount.
- Secure Data: Enables robust backup and recovery processes to prevent data loss.
- Minimize Downtime: Facilitates rapid restoration of virtual machines to maintain operational continuity.
- License Compliance: Ensures proper licensing for essential data protection software.
- Scalable Protection: Offers coverage for a defined number of virtual machines, adaptable to growing needs.
- Continuous Improvement: Subscription model provides access to ongoing software updates and feature enhancements.
This Cisco subscription is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing reliable, compliant data protection for their virtualized workloads.
What This Enables
Protecting Critical Business Data
Enable teams to perform regular, automated backups of their virtual machines, ensuring that critical business data is always protected. Streamline the recovery process to quickly restore operations in the event of data loss or system failure.
virtualized server environments, business continuity planning, data resilience strategies, IT infrastructure management
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance
Maintain compliance with data retention and disaster recovery regulations by utilizing a robust backup and recovery solution. Automate backup schedules and verification processes to meet audit requirements and avoid penalties.
regulated industry operations, data governance policies, compliance reporting, IT audit preparedness
Minimizing Operational Downtime
Minimize costly downtime by enabling rapid restoration of virtual machines and applications. Reduce recovery time objectives (RTO) with efficient backup and restore processes, keeping the business operational.
mission-critical application support, high availability requirements, operational efficiency focus, IT service delivery
Key Features
Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery Software
Provides the core functionality to back up and restore entire virtual machines, safeguarding critical business data and applications.
Subscription Licensing Model
Ensures access to the latest software versions, security patches, and feature enhancements, keeping your data protection solution current and effective.
Per VM Licensing (10 Pack)
Offers a clear and scalable way to license data protection for a specific number of virtual machines, aligning costs with actual usage.
Cisco Brand Assurance
Leverages the reliability and support associated with Cisco's enterprise-grade technology solutions for critical IT functions.
Platform Software Entitlement
Grants the legal right to use the specified backup and recovery software, ensuring compliance and avoiding potential legal issues.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data protection and rapid recovery capabilities to meet regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust, making robust VM backup essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure the availability and integrity of patient data to comply with HIPAA and other regulations, necessitating reliable VM backup and recovery solutions.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle sensitive client data and require continuous access to case files and operational systems, making VM data protection critical for business continuity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on virtualized systems for production control, supply chain management, and operational data, where downtime can lead to significant financial losses and production halts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is covered by this Cisco Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery license?
This license provides the entitlement to use Cisco's software for backing up and recovering virtual machines. It covers the functionality needed to protect your virtualized data and applications.
How is this license billed?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis for the duration of the subscription term. This model ensures continuous access to software updates and support.
What type of environments does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for protecting virtual machines. It is designed to integrate with common virtualization platforms used by businesses.
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.