VMware vSphere 6 Standard (1 CPU) License - 5 Year Subscription
This 5-year subscription license for VMware vSphere 6 Standard unlocks essential virtualization capabilities for your business infrastructure, ensuring continued operation and feature access.
- License Term: 5-year subscription providing predictable access to VMware vSphere 6 Standard features.
- Billing Model: Subscription-based billing ensures consistent budgeting and ongoing access to software updates.
- Platform: Enables virtualization on a single CPU, forming the foundation for your virtualized environment.
- Value: Guarantees compliance, access to critical features, and uninterrupted operation of your virtual machines.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 5-year subscription license for VMware vSphere 6 Standard, designed for a single CPU. It provides the core functionality needed to virtualize your infrastructure, enabling efficient resource utilization and management of virtual machines.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need a reliable and compliant platform for their virtualized servers. It integrates into existing data center environments, supporting essential business applications and workloads.
- Core Virtualization: Provides essential features for creating and managing virtual machines.
- Resource Management: Enables efficient allocation and utilization of server resources.
- High Availability: Supports features to minimize downtime and ensure application availability.
- Centralized Control: Offers a unified interface for managing your virtualized infrastructure.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensures you are properly licensed for your virtualization software.
This VMware vSphere 6 Standard license offers a cost-effective and compliant way for SMB and mid-market teams to build and manage their virtualized environments.
What This Enables
Enable Core Virtualization Capabilities
Enable teams to deploy and manage virtual machines efficiently on a single CPU. Streamline server consolidation and resource allocation for improved operational performance.
On-premises data centers, server consolidation projects, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments, private cloud foundations
Ensure Software Compliance
Automate license tracking and ensure adherence to VMware's licensing terms across your infrastructure. Protect your organization from potential audits and penalties associated with non-compliance.
Regulated industries, IT environments undergoing audits, businesses with strict IT governance policies, multi-server deployments
Maintain Business Continuity
Support critical business applications by providing a stable and feature-rich virtualization platform. Protect against downtime with access to essential high availability and management tools.
Production server environments, mission-critical application hosting, business-critical data processing, disaster recovery planning
Key Features
Virtual Machine Management
Allows for the creation, deployment, and management of multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, increasing hardware utilization.
Resource Allocation
Enables dynamic allocation of CPU, memory, and storage resources to virtual machines, ensuring optimal performance for applications.
Centralized Control Interface
Provides a single pane of glass for managing all virtual machines and hosts, simplifying IT administration.
Subscription Licensing
Offers predictable costs and continuous access to software updates and support for the duration of the term.
Compliance Assurance
Ensures your organization is properly licensed for its virtualization software, mitigating risks associated with audits.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust virtualization for application performance and data security, often needing to meet strict regulatory compliance standards for their IT infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers rely on stable and available virtualized systems for patient record management and critical applications, often adhering to HIPAA compliance requirements.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers use virtualization to consolidate control systems and IT applications, improving operational efficiency and ensuring the reliability of production environments.
Education & Research
Educational institutions leverage virtualization to provide scalable computing resources for research, administration, and student services, managing diverse application needs efficiently.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is VMware vSphere 6 Standard?
VMware vSphere 6 Standard is a foundational software suite for server virtualization. It allows businesses to run multiple operating systems and applications on a single physical server, improving efficiency and reducing hardware costs.
What does '1 CPU' licensing mean?
This license is tied to the number of physical CPUs on your server. For this product, it covers one physical CPU, meaning you can virtualize workloads on a server equipped with one CPU.
What is the benefit of a 5-year subscription?
A 5-year subscription provides long-term cost predictability and ensures you have continuous access to the licensed features and any included software updates for the entire term, simplifying budgeting and IT planning.
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.