Trial

Try Cenovel in your district

Thirty days of the full product, with up to 25 sites, on your own appliance. It starts with a short call.

Updated October 4, 2026

What the trial includes

The full product
Every page of the console, the same release a district runs in production.
Up to 25 sites
Enough to bring in your schools, their closets and their switches.
30 days
Counted from the appliance’s first run. Administrators see the days left in the console and in Settings › License.
Your own network
It runs on your appliance, reads your own switches and needs no internet access.

After 30 days

  • The appliance keeps working without a license, with up to 5 sites. It never becomes read-only.
  • If more than 5 sites are in use, they all keep working and keep being monitored; only adding another site waits for a license.
  • To convert, import the district’s license in Settings › License, during the trial or after it. Nothing is reinstalled and nothing you set up is lost.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Talk with us

    A short call about your network, your sites and what you want the trial to show.

  2. Step 2

    Get access

    We set up your district’s access to the trial download.

  3. Step 3

    Install and look

    Deploy the OVA on your vSphere and follow its install guide. The 30 days start at its first run.

Tell us your district, your role, how many sites you run and when suits you for a call.

Request a trial

Prefer a guided start: the pilot

The pilot is a paid, guided evaluation for a district that wants help getting set up.

90 days, up to 5 sites
A pilot license for your own appliance, with every release that ships during it.
Onboarding help
Installing the appliance, setting up sign-in, the first device credentials and importing your sites and switches from a spreadsheet.
Counts toward year one
If the district subscribes after the pilot, the pilot fee is credited to its first year.

Ask about a pilot at [email protected].

Where it runs

The trial is the same OVA on both. Production runs on vSphere. Other hypervisors and cloud VMs are not supported.

  • VMware vSphere or ESXi

    Recommended

    OVA

    The supported platform, for the trial and for production.

    Requirements

    • ESXi 8.0 Update 2 or later: the OVA uses virtual hardware version 21
    • 2 vCPU and 8 GB of RAM for up to 500 devices
    • Separate disks for the database and the data
  • VMware Workstation or Fusion

    Desktop evaluation

    OVA

    The same OVA, for a first look on a desktop or laptop.

    Requirements

    • Workstation Pro 17.5 or Fusion Pro 13.5, or later
    • A Windows or Linux PC, or an Intel Mac. Apple silicon Macs can’t run it: the appliance is x86 (amd64)
    • 16 GB of RAM or more on the machine

See also: System requirements · Security and privacy · Try the live demo

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