Microsoft Dedicated Host DASv4 Series
Microsoft Dedicated Host DASv4 Series provides dedicated physical servers for your Azure workloads, ensuring isolation and compliance for your business-critical applications.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and enhancing security.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements with isolated hardware environments for sensitive data.
- Performance Predictability: Ensure consistent application performance by eliminating resource contention from other tenants.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize Azure spending by bringing your own licenses and utilizing reserved instances for predictable costs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft Dedicated Host DASv4 Series offers dedicated physical servers within Azure data centers, providing a secure and isolated environment for your virtual machines. This offering ensures that your workloads run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, enhancing security, compliance, and performance predictability.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require greater control over their infrastructure, need to meet specific compliance mandates, or want to optimize costs by consolidating workloads onto dedicated hardware. It integrates directly into your existing Azure environment, allowing for seamless management and deployment.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Physical servers are dedicated solely to your organization, providing a secure and isolated compute environment.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Mitigate risks associated with multi-tenant environments and meet strict data residency and privacy requirements.
- Predictable Performance: Guarantee consistent application performance by eliminating the impact of other tenants' workloads.
- License Mobility: Bring your existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to Azure Dedicated Hosts to potentially reduce costs.
- Flexible Deployment: Deploy Windows Server and Linux virtual machines, and consolidate existing on-premises workloads with greater control.
Optimize your Azure environment with dedicated resources that offer enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance for your business needs.
What This Enables
Meeting Strict Regulatory Compliance
Enable teams to meet stringent industry regulations and data privacy mandates by providing physically isolated compute resources. Streamline auditing processes with dedicated hardware that guarantees data segregation and security.
cloud deployments, hybrid environments, sensitive data workloads, regulated industries, virtual machine consolidation
Ensuring Predictable Application Performance
Streamline operations by guaranteeing consistent application performance, free from the impact of other tenants' workloads. Automate resource allocation to ensure critical business applications always have the dedicated capacity they require.
performance-sensitive applications, business-critical systems, virtual desktop infrastructure, high-transaction environments, predictable resource needs
Consolidating On-Premises Workloads
Organizations deploying dedicated hosts can migrate existing on-premises servers and workloads to Azure with greater control and predictability. Businesses migrating sensitive applications benefit from the familiar dedicated hardware model in a cloud environment.
server consolidation, on-premises datacenter exit, hybrid cloud strategy, lift-and-shift migrations, license optimization
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive hardware access for enhanced security, isolation, and predictable performance for your virtual machines.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Allows you to use your existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to pay a reduced rate on Dedicated Hosts.
License Mobility
Enables you to bring your eligible SQL Server and Windows Server licenses to Azure Dedicated Hosts, potentially reducing costs and simplifying license management.
Compliance and Governance
Helps meet stringent regulatory requirements and data privacy mandates by providing a controlled and isolated environment.
Flexible VM Deployment
Supports a wide range of Windows Server and Linux virtual machine sizes, allowing you to deploy workloads according to your specific needs.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require strict data isolation and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which Dedicated Hosts help satisfy through dedicated infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, making the isolated environment of Dedicated Hosts crucial for protecting sensitive patient data.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client information and often have strict data residency and security requirements that benefit from dedicated hardware.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have specific security mandates and data sovereignty requirements that can be met by deploying workloads on dedicated, isolated infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Microsoft Dedicated Host?
A Dedicated Host is a physical server with Azure compute capacity that is dedicated to a single customer. This provides a secure and isolated environment for your virtual machines, helping you meet compliance and security requirements.
How does Dedicated Host pricing work?
You pay for the Dedicated Host itself, which is billed per hour. You can also bring your own licenses for Windows Server and SQL Server using the Azure Hybrid Benefit to reduce costs.
Can I move my existing servers to a Dedicated Host?
Yes, Dedicated Hosts are ideal for consolidating on-premises workloads or migrating existing servers to Azure. You can deploy compatible virtual machine sizes onto the dedicated hardware.
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.