VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus (1 CPU) License
VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus licensing provides enterprise-grade virtualization features for your business infrastructure, enabling advanced resource management and operational efficiency.
- Advanced Features: Unlock the full suite of vSphere 6 capabilities for enhanced performance and scalability.
- Resource Optimization: Gain granular control over compute, storage, and network resources for maximum efficiency.
- High Availability: Ensure business continuity with robust features designed to minimize downtime.
- Compliance Ready: Maintain regulatory adherence with advanced security and auditing capabilities.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus platform license, sold on a subscription basis per CPU, unlocks the highest tier of virtualization features. It provides advanced capabilities for managing, automating, and securing your virtualized environment, ensuring optimal performance and resilience.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this license is designed for organizations that require sophisticated control over their virtual infrastructure. It integrates into existing server room or data center environments to support critical business applications and services.
- Full Feature Set: Access all Enterprise Plus edition features for maximum virtualization power.
- Scalability: Supports large-scale deployments and demanding workloads.
- Automation: Streamline operations with advanced automation and orchestration tools.
- Security: Enhance data protection and compliance with built-in security features.
- Performance: Optimize virtual machine performance and resource utilization.
This license empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-level virtualization without the associated overhead costs.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Virtualization Capabilities
Enable teams to deploy and manage complex virtualized workloads with advanced features like Distributed Resource Scheduler and vMotion. Streamline resource allocation and ensure high availability for critical business applications.
on-premises data centers, virtualized server environments, business continuity planning, IT resource optimization
Enhance Data Center Performance and Scalability
Streamline the scaling of virtual infrastructure to meet growing business demands with advanced resource management tools. Automate performance tuning and ensure optimal utilization of hardware resources for demanding applications.
growing SMBs, mid-market IT departments, application hosting, server consolidation
Ensure Regulatory Compliance and Security
Automate security policy enforcement and maintain audit trails for regulatory compliance within the virtualized environment. Protect sensitive data with advanced encryption and access control features.
regulated industries, data security requirements, IT governance, compliance reporting
Key Features
VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Automatically balances workloads across hosts to optimize performance and resource utilization.
VMware vSphere vMotion
Allows live migration of running virtual machines between hosts with no downtime.
VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)
Automatically restarts virtual machines on other hosts if a host fails, minimizing downtime.
VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
Provides continuous availability for critical applications by creating a live shadow instance of a VM.
Advanced Security Features
Includes encryption, secure boot, and role-based access control to protect virtualized environments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires high availability, robust security, and compliance with strict regulations like SOX, making advanced virtualization features essential for operational stability and data protection.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need to ensure continuous access to patient data and comply with HIPAA, benefiting from the high availability and security features of Enterprise Plus for critical medical systems.
Manufacturing & Industrial
These businesses rely on stable and scalable IT infrastructure to manage production, logistics, and operations, where advanced virtualization can consolidate servers and improve efficiency.
Legal & Professional Services
Firms in this sector handle sensitive client data and require reliable IT systems for case management and operations, benefiting from the security and uptime provided by advanced virtualization.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus?
VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus is the highest edition of VMware's virtualization platform, offering the most advanced features for performance, scalability, availability, and management.
What does '1 CPU' licensing mean?
This license is priced per physical CPU socket on your server hardware. Each CPU socket requires one license for the vSphere software to run.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This product is a subscription-based license, meaning you pay a recurring fee for the right to use the software over a defined term.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
High — engineer-led
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.