Cisco vSphere Upgrade Factory: Enterprise to Enterprise Plus
This Cisco subscription license upgrades your vSphere environment from Enterprise to Enterprise Plus, unlocking advanced features for a 1-CPU instance over a 3-year term.
- Access to Advanced Features: Unlock critical functionalities like vSphere Distributed Switch, vSphere Storage vMotion, and enhanced security controls.
- Extended Support: Benefit from 3 years of essential Cisco support, ensuring timely assistance and issue resolution for your virtualized infrastructure.
- License Compliance: Maintain adherence to Cisco's licensing agreements, avoiding potential penalties and operational disruptions.
- Optimized Performance: Gain access to premium features that enhance the performance, scalability, and manageability of your virtual environment.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco subscription license facilitates an upgrade from vSphere Enterprise to Enterprise Plus editions for a single CPU instance, including three years of required support. It provides access to a higher tier of virtualization capabilities designed for more demanding business environments.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this license is crucial for businesses looking to enhance their virtual infrastructure's functionality, security, and operational efficiency. It integrates directly into existing VMware vSphere deployments.
- Feature Unlock: Enables advanced capabilities beyond the standard Enterprise edition.
- Scalability Enhancement: Supports more complex and larger-scale virtual deployments.
- Performance Boost: Provides tools for optimizing virtual machine performance and resource utilization.
- Management Tools: Offers enhanced management features for greater control over the virtual environment.
- Support Included: Bundles 3 years of essential vendor support for uninterrupted operation.
This Cisco vSphere upgrade is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to maximize their virtualization investment with enterprise-grade features and support.
What This Enables
Unlock Advanced Virtualization Features
Enable teams to utilize sophisticated features such as vSphere Distributed Switch for network management and vSphere Storage vMotion for seamless storage migration. This allows for greater operational flexibility and efficiency in managing virtual workloads.
virtualization platforms, server consolidation, data center operations, IT infrastructure management
Enhance Virtual Machine Performance
Streamline the performance tuning of virtual machines with Enterprise Plus capabilities, ensuring critical applications run optimally. This leads to improved user experience and higher productivity for business operations.
application hosting, business-critical systems, performance optimization, resource management
Improve Data Center Management
Automate complex data center tasks and gain deeper insights into resource utilization with advanced management tools. This empowers IT professionals to proactively manage their environment and reduce manual intervention.
IT operations, infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, IT service delivery
Key Features
vSphere Distributed Switch
Centralize network configuration and management across multiple hosts, simplifying network administration and improving consistency.
vSphere Storage vMotion
Migrate running virtual machines to different storage locations without downtime, enabling storage maintenance and load balancing without impacting users.
Enhanced Security Features
Benefit from advanced security controls to protect your virtualized environment and sensitive business data.
3-Year Support Included
Receive 3 years of vendor support, ensuring access to technical expertise and timely resolution of issues for uninterrupted operations.
Enterprise Plus Edition Capabilities
Gain access to the highest tier of vSphere features for maximum performance, scalability, and management efficiency.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, high availability, and advanced management features to comply with strict regulations and ensure continuous operation of critical trading and customer service platforms.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need reliable, secure, and scalable virtual environments to support patient care systems, medical imaging, and research data, often under strict HIPAA compliance mandates.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on stable and performant virtualized infrastructure to run production control systems, supply chain management software, and IoT platforms, demanding high uptime and efficient resource utilization.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service organizations handle sensitive client data and require secure, highly available virtual environments to support case management, document management, and client communication systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco UPGRADE FACTORY VSPHERE?
It is a licensing program that allows businesses to upgrade their existing VMware vSphere environment from an Enterprise edition to an Enterprise Plus edition. This specific offer includes support for a 1-CPU instance for 3 years.
What is the difference between vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus?
Enterprise Plus offers a significantly broader set of advanced features, including enhanced networking capabilities like the vSphere Distributed Switch, advanced storage features like Storage vMotion, and improved security and management tools, compared to the Enterprise edition.
Who is this license intended for?
This license is for businesses, particularly SMB and mid-market companies, that use VMware vSphere for their own IT operations and need to unlock advanced features for better performance, scalability, and management of their virtualized environment.
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.