Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with the DSV3 Series Dedicated Host subscription, ensuring consistent performance and compliance for your critical business workloads.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Guarantees exclusive use of physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring predictable performance for your applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Meets stringent regulatory and compliance requirements by providing isolated hardware environments for sensitive data and workloads.
- Cost Predictability: Subscription-based billing offers a fixed monthly cost for dedicated resources, simplifying IT budget management.
- Performance Consistency: Offers enhanced and predictable performance for demanding applications, databases, and virtual desktop infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host is a subscription service providing dedicated physical servers within Azure. This offering ensures that your workloads run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, offering enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance for your most critical applications.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require dedicated resources for sensitive applications, compliance mandates, or performance-intensive workloads. It fits within your existing Azure environment, allowing you to maintain control over your hardware while benefiting from cloud scalability.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your organization has sole use of the physical server, eliminating resource contention and ensuring consistent performance.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Dedicated hardware provides an additional layer of isolation, crucial for meeting strict security and data privacy regulations.
- Licensing Benefits: Allows for the deployment of eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance on dedicated hardware, potentially reducing costs.
- Flexible Deployment: Supports various Azure services and virtual machine configurations, allowing you to tailor the environment to your specific needs.
- Predictable Costing: Subscription model provides clear and consistent monthly billing for dedicated infrastructure, aiding financial planning.
Secure and predictable dedicated Azure infrastructure is now accessible for your business without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Application Hosting
Enable teams to deploy business-critical applications on isolated physical hardware, guaranteeing consistent performance and preventing resource contention. This ensures that demanding workloads, such as large databases or ERP systems, operate reliably.
cloud-hosted applications, virtualized environments, performance-sensitive workloads, dedicated resource requirements
Meet Strict Compliance Mandates
Streamline adherence to regulatory requirements by hosting sensitive data and applications on physically isolated servers. This provides an additional layer of security and control necessary for industries with stringent data privacy and governance standards.
regulated industries, data isolation needs, security-focused deployments, compliance-driven IT strategy
Optimize Licensing for Windows Server and SQL Server
Automate the efficient deployment of eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance on dedicated hardware. This can lead to significant cost savings compared to traditional licensing models in the cloud.
existing Microsoft licenses, hybrid cloud deployments, cost optimization initiatives, enterprise software management
Key Features
Exclusive Physical Server Access
Ensures predictable performance and eliminates resource contention for your most critical applications.
Azure Cloud Integration
Leverage the scalability and global reach of Azure while maintaining control over your dedicated hardware.
Subscription Billing
Provides clear, fixed monthly costs for dedicated infrastructure, simplifying IT budget management.
Compliance and Security
Offers enhanced isolation for sensitive data, aiding in meeting stringent regulatory and security requirements.
License Mobility
Allows eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to be used on dedicated hardware, potentially reducing costs.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and isolation for sensitive customer data and transactions, making dedicated hosts essential for meeting stringent regulatory compliance like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, which necessitates dedicated infrastructure to protect Protected Health Information (PHI) and ensure data integrity.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information, requiring dedicated environments to maintain attorney-client privilege and comply with data security standards.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often run mission-critical systems and control software that demand consistent, predictable performance and high availability, which dedicated hosts can provide without the variability of shared infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host in Azure is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to your organization. This means you have exclusive use of the underlying hardware for your virtual machines, offering enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance.
How does a dedicated host help with compliance?
Dedicated hosts provide an additional layer of isolation by ensuring your workloads run on hardware solely allocated to you. This is crucial for meeting strict data privacy regulations and industry-specific compliance standards that require physical separation of data.
Can I use my existing Windows Server or SQL Server licenses with a dedicated host?
Yes, eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with active Software Assurance can be deployed on dedicated hosts, potentially offering cost savings through license mobility. Specific eligibility and terms apply.
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.