Cisco vSphere Enterprise Plus Upgrade
Upgrade your Cisco vSphere environment to Enterprise Plus with this 1-CPU license, providing enhanced features and 1-year of essential support.
- Enhanced Features: Unlock advanced capabilities of vSphere Enterprise Plus for greater operational efficiency.
- 1-Year Support: Gain access to Cisco's technical support for critical issue resolution and guidance.
- License Compliance: Ensure your virtualization platform is properly licensed, avoiding potential risks.
- Performance Optimization: Benefit from the latest features designed to improve virtualization performance and scalability.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco vSphere Enterprise Plus upgrade license is designed for businesses looking to enhance their existing virtualization infrastructure. It provides access to the full suite of Enterprise Plus features, including advanced networking, storage, and availability capabilities, along with one year of required support.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this license integrates into existing VMware environments, enabling them to manage virtualized resources more effectively and ensure their platform is up-to-date and fully supported.
- Full Enterprise Plus Feature Set: Access all advanced functionalities of vSphere Enterprise Plus.
- 1-CPU Licensing: Scalable licensing model based on CPU count for efficient resource allocation.
- 1-Year Standard Support: Includes essential technical support for troubleshooting and operational assistance.
- Virtualization Enhancement: Elevate your data center's virtualization capabilities.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain licensing compliance with up-to-date software entitlements.
This upgrade provides a clear path for businesses to access premium virtualization features and support, ensuring their infrastructure remains modern and efficient.
What This Enables
Unlock Advanced Virtualization Features
Enable teams to deploy sophisticated networking configurations and advanced storage solutions. Streamline the management of large-scale virtualized environments with enhanced automation capabilities.
on-premises data centers, hybrid cloud deployments, server consolidation projects, virtual desktop infrastructure
Enhance Business Continuity and Availability
Automate disaster recovery processes and ensure high availability for critical applications. Protect against data loss and minimize downtime with advanced fault tolerance and replication features.
mission-critical application hosting, regulatory compliance environments, high-availability clusters, business continuity planning
Improve Resource Management and Efficiency
Streamline the allocation and monitoring of compute, storage, and network resources across the virtualized infrastructure. Optimize performance and reduce operational costs through intelligent resource balancing.
resource-intensive workloads, cost-optimization initiatives, performance-sensitive applications, data center modernization
Key Features
vSphere Enterprise Plus Features
Access to the most advanced features for networking, storage, and availability, enabling greater control and efficiency.
1-CPU License
Provides a clear and scalable licensing metric based on the physical CPUs in your servers.
1-Year Support
Ensures access to Cisco's technical expertise for troubleshooting and maintaining your virtualized environment.
Upgrade Path
Allows existing vSphere customers to easily transition to a higher feature set without a full re-deployment.
Enhanced Security
Benefit from advanced security features included in Enterprise Plus to protect your virtual infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires high availability and robust security for sensitive financial data, making advanced virtualization features essential for compliance and operational continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need reliable and secure IT infrastructure to manage patient data and critical medical applications, benefiting from the enhanced availability and performance of Enterprise Plus.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often rely on real-time data and control systems, demanding high-performance, fault-tolerant virtualization to ensure continuous production and minimize downtime.
Legal & Professional Services
Firms in this sector handle confidential client information and require secure, efficient IT systems to manage case files and operations, benefiting from advanced data protection and performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between vSphere editions?
vSphere editions vary in feature sets, with Enterprise Plus offering the most advanced capabilities for networking, storage, availability, and management. This upgrade moves you to that top tier.
What does '1-CPU' licensing mean?
This license is priced and measured based on the number of physical CPUs in the servers hosting your vSphere environment. For this specific product, it covers one CPU.
What is covered by the 1-year support?
The 1-year support typically includes access to Cisco's technical support resources for troubleshooting, bug fixes, and guidance on using the vSphere features.
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.