VCF per-core upgrade by Zero Dollar Order (Qualified Legacy Offerings)
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- Kind
- Subscription umbrella
- Term
- Remaining term of the original subscription
- Aliases
- ZDO; Qualified Legacy Offerings; QLO
- Definition
- Customers "who have purchased our per-core offerings (VCF+/S (All Editions) , VCF Cloud Packs+/-S (Adv, Ent)) before February 2024 are eligible to upgrade to the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1" through a Zero Dollar Order (VCF blog, April 23, 2024).
- Commercial rules
- ZDO places the equivalent quantity of license keys "yet maintain the same current term limit"; at term end customers repurchase the current VCF offering. VCF SPD June 2026 calls these Qualified Legacy Offerings (purchased prior to February 4, 2024) and excludes non-Enterprise QLO upgrades from License Portability.
- Applies to
- VCF+/-S and VCF Cloud Packs+/-S subscriptions purchased before February 2024.
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