Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host
Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Hosts provide exclusive physical servers for your Azure virtual machines, ensuring enhanced security and performance for your critical workloads.
- Exclusive Hardware: Dedicated physical servers for your Azure VMs, offering isolation and predictable performance.
- Enhanced Security: Maintain compliance and data sovereignty with physical server control.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize costs for high-demand workloads by dedicating hardware resources.
- Performance Predictability: Avoid noisy neighbor issues and ensure consistent VM performance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to your use, allowing you to host your Azure virtual machines on hardware that is exclusively yours. This offering provides a higher level of isolation and control compared to standard shared infrastructure, ensuring predictable performance and enhanced security for your most demanding applications.
This dedicated host solution is ideal for businesses that require strict compliance, have specific security needs, or need guaranteed performance for their critical workloads. It integrates seamlessly into your Azure environment, providing the benefits of dedicated hardware without the complexity of managing physical infrastructure yourself.
- Dedicated Physical Servers: Run your Azure VMs on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization.
- Compliance and Security: Meet stringent regulatory requirements and enhance data protection with physical server isolation.
- Performance Assurance: Eliminate the 'noisy neighbor' effect for consistent and predictable VM performance.
- Cost Optimization: Potentially reduce costs for predictable, high-utilization workloads compared to pay-as-you-go VMs.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly deploy and manage your dedicated hosts and VMs within the Azure ecosystem.
Ensure your critical applications run on secure, dedicated infrastructure with Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Hosts, offering enterprise-grade performance and control for your business.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Workload Isolation
Enable teams to run sensitive applications and data on physically isolated servers, ensuring strict data sovereignty and compliance with regulations like HIPAA or GDPR. This provides peace of mind for organizations handling confidential information.
private cloud, hybrid cloud, compliance-driven environments, sensitive data workloads
Guarantee Application Performance
Streamline operations by ensuring consistent and predictable performance for critical business applications, such as ERP systems or databases. This prevents performance degradation caused by other tenants on shared infrastructure.
high-performance computing, mission-critical applications, predictable workload demands, latency-sensitive systems
Meet Licensing Requirements
Automate compliance with specific software licensing terms that require dedicated hardware for certain applications. This avoids potential licensing audits and ensures you are operating within your agreements.
BYOL (Bring Your Own License) scenarios, regulated industries, specific software vendor agreements, license compliance
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive use of physical servers, ensuring isolation and preventing performance impacts from other tenants.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly deploy and manage dedicated hosts and VMs within the familiar Azure portal and ecosystem.
Compliance Assurance
Helps meet regulatory requirements and data residency needs by offering dedicated, isolated hardware.
Performance Predictability
Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, guaranteeing consistent and reliable performance for your VMs.
Cost Optimization for Predictable Workloads
Can offer cost savings for workloads with consistent, high utilization compared to standard VM instances.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security and compliance to protect sensitive customer data and adhere to regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts ideal for isolating critical financial applications.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to safeguard protected health information (PHI) and ensure data integrity for patient records and medical systems.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client information and often have strict data residency and security requirements, benefiting from the isolation and control offered by dedicated hosts.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have specific security mandates and data sovereignty requirements that can be met by deploying sensitive workloads on dedicated physical servers within Azure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to a single customer. You can place your Azure virtual machines on this hardware, ensuring isolation and control.
How does a dedicated host differ from a regular Azure VM?
Regular Azure VMs run on shared physical hardware, while dedicated hosts provide you with exclusive access to the underlying physical server, offering greater isolation and predictability.
Can I bring my own licenses to a dedicated host?
Yes, dedicated hosts are often used to meet specific software licensing requirements that mandate dedicated hardware, allowing you to bring your own licenses for greater cost efficiency and compliance.
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.