VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus (1 CPU) License
VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus provides advanced virtualization features for your business infrastructure, enabling enhanced performance and management for up to 1 CPU.
- Access to Advanced Features: Unlock enterprise-grade capabilities for server consolidation, resource optimization, and high availability.
- Compliance and Stability: Maintain regulatory compliance and ensure consistent operation of your virtualized environment.
- Scalable Virtualization: Support growing demands with robust features designed for dynamic workloads and efficient resource allocation.
- Continued Operation: Secure ongoing access to critical software updates and essential support for uninterrupted service delivery.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus license, designed for a single CPU, unlocks the highest tier of virtualization features. It provides advanced capabilities for managing and optimizing your server infrastructure, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and efficient resource utilization.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this license to build and maintain powerful virtualized environments. It integrates into existing data center operations, supporting critical business applications and services with enterprise-level performance and reliability.
- Enterprise-Grade Virtualization: Access the full suite of vSphere features for maximum performance and control.
- Enhanced Resource Management: Optimize CPU, memory, and storage allocation for all virtual machines.
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Implement robust solutions to protect against downtime and data loss.
- Simplified Management: Centralize control of your virtual infrastructure through a unified interface.
- License Compliance: Ensure your virtualization software is properly licensed, avoiding potential risks and penalties.
This license is the ideal choice for businesses seeking to maximize their virtualization investment with enterprise-level features and support.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Virtualization Capabilities
Enable teams to deploy and manage complex virtualized environments with enterprise-grade features. Streamline resource allocation and enhance overall data center efficiency for critical business applications.
on-premises data centers, virtual desktop infrastructure, server consolidation projects, private cloud deployments
Enhance Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Support business continuity initiatives by implementing robust high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Protect critical data and minimize downtime with advanced VMware features.
mission-critical application hosting, regulatory compliance environments, business continuity planning, risk mitigation strategies
Optimize IT Resource Utilization
Automate and optimize the allocation of computing resources across your virtualized infrastructure. Improve server density and reduce hardware costs through efficient capacity planning.
resource-intensive workloads, dynamic scaling requirements, cost optimization initiatives, IT infrastructure modernization
Key Features
VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Automatically balances computing workloads across available servers to optimize performance and resource utilization.
VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)
Automatically restarts virtual machines on other servers in case of hardware failure, minimizing downtime.
VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
Provides continuous availability for critical applications by creating a live shadow instance of a virtual machine.
VMware vSphere vMotion
Enables live migration of running virtual machines between hosts with no downtime or service interruption.
VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
Allows live migration of virtual machine disk files between different datastores with no downtime.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires high availability and robust disaster recovery capabilities to ensure continuous operation of trading platforms and customer service systems, often under strict regulatory oversight.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need reliable and secure virtualized environments to support critical patient care systems and sensitive data management, adhering to HIPAA compliance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on stable virtual infrastructure to run production control systems, supply chain management, and IoT platforms, demanding high uptime and performance.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and require secure, highly available systems for case management and client communication, often with specific data residency needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus?
VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus is the highest edition of VMware's virtualization platform, offering advanced features for performance, availability, and management of virtualized environments.
What does '1 CPU' licensing mean?
This license is valid for a single physical CPU socket on your server. You will need one license per CPU socket where vSphere is installed.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This product is a subscription, meaning you pay a recurring fee for the right to use the software and receive updates and support for a defined term.
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.