Microsoft Dedicated Host DCSV2 T1 Subscription
Secure your business applications with a 3-year Microsoft Dedicated Host DCSV2 subscription, ensuring dedicated resources and enhanced control for your critical workloads.
- Dedicated Resources: Gain exclusive access to physical servers for your workloads, ensuring performance isolation and security.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements by maintaining full control over your hardware environment.
- Predictable Performance: Avoid noisy neighbor issues and guarantee consistent application performance for your users.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize spending with a predictable 3-year subscription, avoiding large upfront capital expenditures.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Dedicated Host DCSV2 subscription provides dedicated physical servers within Azure, offering you exclusive access to the host hardware. It enables you to run your Windows Server and SQL Server virtual machines on infrastructure that you control, ensuring compliance and predictable performance for your most critical applications.
Ideal for businesses with strict compliance needs or performance-sensitive workloads, this subscription is managed by IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies. It integrates directly into your Azure environment, allowing you to maintain control over hardware placement and licensing while benefiting from cloud scalability.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your virtual machines run on physical servers dedicated solely to your use.
- Licensing Benefits: Utilize your existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance for dedicated hosts.
- Enhanced Security: Maintain greater control over your environment to meet specific security and compliance mandates.
- Performance Isolation: Eliminate the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent and predictable application performance.
- Flexible Deployment: Deploy and manage your virtual machines on dedicated hardware within the Azure cloud.
This 3-year subscription offers SMB and mid-market teams a powerful way to achieve dedicated infrastructure control and compliance within the Azure cloud.
What This Enables
Dedicated Infrastructure for Compliance
Enable teams to meet stringent regulatory requirements by dedicating physical servers for sensitive data and applications. Streamline audits and maintain control over your hardware environment for peace of mind.
highly regulated environments, data residency mandates, strict security policies, cloud deployments
Performance Isolation for Critical Apps
Streamline application performance by ensuring critical workloads run on exclusive physical hardware, free from noisy neighbor interference. Automate resource allocation for predictable and consistent user experiences.
performance-sensitive applications, business-critical systems, predictable workload demands, cloud infrastructure
Optimized Licensing for Existing Investments
Automate the utilization of existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance on dedicated hosts. Enable teams to maximize their software investments while benefiting from cloud flexibility.
existing Microsoft license holders, hybrid cloud strategies, cost optimization initiatives, predictable software needs
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Ensures your virtual machines run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, preventing performance interference from other tenants.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly integrates into your existing Azure environment, allowing for unified management and billing of your cloud resources.
License Mobility
Allows you to bring your existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to dedicated hosts, potentially reducing costs.
Compliance and Security Control
Provides a higher level of control over your infrastructure, aiding in meeting specific regulatory and security compliance standards.
3-Year Subscription Term
Offers predictable costs and resource availability over a defined period, simplifying budgeting and long-term planning.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data security and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hardware essential for sensitive workloads.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to protect patient data and ensure compliance.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have strict data sovereignty and security mandates, requiring dedicated resources to maintain control and meet compliance standards for sensitive information.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client information, demanding dedicated infrastructure to ensure data privacy, security, and compliance with ethical obligations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Dedicated Host DCSV2?
Microsoft Dedicated Host DCSV2 provides dedicated physical servers within Azure that are exclusively for your use. This allows you to run your Windows Server and SQL Server virtual machines on infrastructure you control, offering enhanced security, compliance, and performance isolation.
Who is this subscription for?
This subscription is ideal for businesses with strict regulatory compliance requirements, performance-sensitive applications, or those who need to maintain a higher degree of control over their underlying hardware within the Azure cloud. It is suitable for SMB and mid-market organizations.
Can I use my existing Microsoft licenses with Dedicated Host?
Yes, you can bring eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with active Software Assurance to Azure Dedicated Hosts. This license mobility benefit can help optimize your software spending.
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.