Cisco NVAIE Essentials Support per GPU — 42 Months | Support, Education Renewal — NV-AIE-EDP-R-42M=

Maintain uninterrupted GPU-driven AI research and teaching environments with a 42‑month per‑GPU Essentials renewal from Cisco. Designed for education customers, this renewal preserves access to vendor updates, critical security fixes, and product entitlements tied to the NVAIE Essentials SKU (NV-AIE-EDP-R-42M=). Purchased per GPU, this support option aligns renewals with hardware lifecycles so procurement can budget precisely by accelerator count. Organizations running mixed clusters or campus GPU labs retain predictable vendor coverage and a clear upgrade path without re-provisioning full enterprise support tiers. Choose this renewal to reduce operational risk across teaching, lab, and research workloads while keeping vendor-managed compatibility assurances intact. Ideal For Campus GPU labs requiring predictable per‑accelerator renewals University research clusters running mixed GPU nodes Teaching environments needing vendor updates and security patches Grant-funded projects that require per‑GPU budgeting and renewals Why This Product 1 Priced per GPU to match academic accelerator counts instead of flat per-server fees 2 42 months term balances lifecycle coverage with lower near-term cost than longer renewals 3 Focused on education entitlements to simplify campus procurement compliance 4 Keeps vendor update eligibility active without upgrading to higher support tiers