Cisco APIC Small Virtual Appliance 3Y | ACI, Virtual Appliance, Enterprise — VAPIC-S-3Y

Keep ACI operations under control with a 3-year license for Cisco APIC Small Virtual Appliance. Built for environments that want centralized policy management without dedicating additional hardware, this software licensing option supports the control and orchestration layer that keeps fabric behavior consistent across the data center. For infrastructure teams, the value is operational clarity. APIC helps define, apply, and maintain policy across the ACI fabric from a single management point, reducing the friction of manual configuration and helping standardize changes across connected resources. The virtual appliance model fits organizations that prefer software-based deployment and want to preserve rack space, power, and procurement simplicity. This 3-year term is well suited to planned refresh cycles, multi-year platform commitments, and environments where predictable licensing matters. It gives procurement teams a clear subscription horizon while giving architects a stable control-plane option for ACI deployments. For enterprises that depend on policy consistency, the right APIC licensing choice is not just administrative — it is foundational to keeping the fabric aligned with operational intent. Ideal For Deploying centralized policy management for a Cisco ACI fabric Standardizing multi-year licensing for data center network operations Replacing hardware-based control appliances with software licensing Supporting enterprise ACI governance in virtualized infrastructure environments Why This Product 1 Software-based control plane instead of dedicated hardware 2 3-year term for predictable procurement planning 3 Built for Cisco ACI fabric management 4 Supports centralized policy enforcement across the fabric