Cisco vSphere Enterprise Plus Upgrade with 5-Year Support
This Cisco vSphere upgrade to Enterprise Plus unlocks advanced virtualization capabilities and includes 5 years of essential support for your business operations.
- Access to Advanced Features: Gain access to enterprise-grade features like Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, and High Availability for enhanced workload management.
- Extended Support Coverage: Benefit from 5 years of direct vendor support, ensuring timely issue resolution and access to software updates.
- Protection Against Downtime: Maintain business continuity with features designed to minimize downtime and ensure application availability.
- Entitlement to Latest Software: Stay current with the latest VMware vSphere software releases and security patches throughout the support term.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering is a Cisco software license upgrade for VMware vSphere, specifically moving from an Enterprise edition to Enterprise Plus. It includes 5 years of vendor support, ensuring your virtualization platform remains current and fully supported.
This license is designed for businesses that utilize VMware vSphere for their server virtualization needs. It is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies looking to enhance their virtual infrastructure with advanced features and ensure long-term operational stability.
- Enhanced Virtualization Capabilities: Unlock premium features for advanced resource management and workload mobility.
- Long-Term Vendor Support: Secure 5 years of direct support from Cisco for critical issue resolution and software updates.
- Improved Operational Efficiency: Streamline management of your virtual environment with advanced automation and orchestration tools.
- Scalability and Performance: Ensure your virtualization platform can grow with your business demands.
- License Compliance: Maintain a compliant software posture with a legitimate upgrade path and ongoing support.
This Cisco vSphere upgrade provides essential advanced features and long-term support, making it a strategic choice for growing businesses.
What This Enables
Unlock Advanced Virtualization Features
Enable teams to utilize enterprise-grade features such as Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for automated workload balancing and vMotion for live migration of virtual machines. Streamline operations with enhanced automation and management tools for a more efficient virtual environment.
virtualized server environments, private cloud deployments, business continuity planning, IT resource optimization
Ensure Long-Term Software Support
Secure 5 years of direct vendor support, providing access to technical assistance, software updates, and security patches. Protect your investment and maintain a compliant, up-to-date virtualization platform throughout the support term.
mission-critical application hosting, long-term IT strategy, risk mitigation, operational stability
Enhance Business Continuity
Organizations deploying this upgrade benefit from features like High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) to minimize downtime and ensure continuous operation of critical business applications. Protect against hardware failures and unplanned outages with robust virtualization resilience.
production server environments, disaster recovery planning, high-availability requirements, application uptime SLAs
Key Features
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition
Gain access to the most advanced set of features for virtualization management, including DRS, vMotion, and Fault Tolerance, enhancing operational efficiency and application availability.
5-Year Vendor Support
Receive direct technical support, software updates, and security patches from Cisco for an extended period, ensuring your platform remains secure and functional.
Single CPU License
Provides licensing for a specific hardware configuration, allowing for precise cost management and deployment planning.
Upgrade Path
Offers a clear and supported method to move from a lower edition of vSphere to a more capable one, facilitating feature enhancement without a full platform replacement.
Platform Licensing
Secures the necessary software rights to operate advanced virtualization features, ensuring compliance and enabling full utilization of the platform's capabilities.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and robust security for their virtualized environments to meet strict regulatory compliance and ensure uninterrupted trading and customer service operations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers rely on stable and secure virtual infrastructure to manage patient data, critical medical applications, and telehealth services, often under stringent HIPAA compliance mandates.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers use virtualization to run operational technology (OT) and IT systems, requiring reliable performance and uptime for production lines and supply chain management.
Education & Research
Educational institutions and research facilities utilize virtual environments to support diverse applications, manage large datasets, and provide flexible computing resources for students and faculty.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus?
Enterprise Plus includes advanced features like Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion, Storage vMotion, and Fault Tolerance, which are not available in the Enterprise edition. These features provide enhanced automation, workload mobility, and resilience.
What does the 5-year support cover?
The 5-year support typically covers access to technical assistance from the vendor, software updates, patches, and bug fixes for the licensed version of vSphere. It ensures you have vendor backing for the duration of the term.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
Based on the billing model 'SUBSCRIPTION', this is a term-based license with ongoing support included for the duration of the term, which is 5 years in this case.
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.