Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host
Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host provides dedicated physical servers for your Azure workloads, ensuring isolation and compliance for your business-critical applications.
- Dedicated Resources: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring predictable performance for your applications.
- Enhanced Security: Isolate your workloads on dedicated hardware, meeting strict compliance and regulatory requirements for sensitive data.
- Optimized Performance: Achieve consistent and high performance for demanding applications, databases, and virtual desktop infrastructure.
- Cost Efficiency: Reduce overhead by utilizing dedicated hardware without the capital expenditure and management burden of on-premises infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host is a physical server offering within Azure, dedicated solely to your organization's workloads. It provides a secure and isolated environment, ideal for meeting compliance mandates and ensuring predictable performance for your most critical applications.
This offering is designed for businesses that require the benefits of dedicated hardware for their Azure deployments. IT Managers and IT Professionals can utilize these hosts to run sensitive applications, databases, or virtual desktop infrastructure, integrating seamlessly with their existing Azure environment.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your organization has sole use of the physical server, eliminating resource contention and performance variability.
- Compliance and Isolation: Meet stringent regulatory requirements by isolating sensitive data and applications on dedicated infrastructure.
- Predictable Performance: Ensure consistent and reliable performance for your most demanding workloads, from databases to VDI.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrate dedicated hosts into your existing Azure environment for unified management and billing.
- Scalability: Easily scale your dedicated hosting capacity up or down as your business needs evolve within the Azure ecosystem.
For businesses needing dedicated, compliant, and high-performance infrastructure within Azure, the DSV3 Series Dedicated Host offers enterprise-grade capabilities without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Isolate Sensitive Workloads for Compliance
Enable teams to deploy applications handling sensitive data, such as financial or healthcare information, on physically isolated hardware. This ensures adherence to strict regulatory requirements like HIPAA or PCI DSS by preventing data co-mingling.
cloud-native deployments, hybrid cloud environments, regulated industries, data-sensitive operations
Guarantee Performance for Critical Applications
Streamline operations by dedicating physical server resources to essential business applications, such as ERP systems or core databases. This guarantees consistent, high performance, eliminating variability caused by shared infrastructure.
mission-critical systems, high-transaction environments, performance-sensitive applications, business continuity planning
Support Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Deployments
Automate the provisioning of dedicated hosts for VDI solutions, ensuring a consistent and responsive user experience for remote or in-office employees. This provides predictable performance for each user's virtual desktop.
remote workforce enablement, employee productivity tools, centralized desktop management, user experience optimization
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Server
Ensures your workloads run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, preventing performance interference from other tenants.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly deploy and manage dedicated hosts within your existing Azure subscription, simplifying administration and billing.
Compliance Focus
Provides an isolated environment that helps meet stringent regulatory and data sovereignty requirements for sensitive workloads.
Predictable Performance
Delivers consistent and reliable performance for demanding applications, databases, and VDI solutions.
Subscription Billing
Offers a predictable operational expense model for dedicated hardware, avoiding large upfront capital investments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require strict data isolation and predictable performance to meet regulatory compliance standards like PCI DSS and SOX for sensitive transaction data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations, necessitating isolated environments for protected health information (PHI) and ensuring consistent availability for critical patient care systems.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly confidential client data, requiring dedicated infrastructure to maintain client privilege and meet data security mandates.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have stringent data sovereignty and security requirements, making dedicated, isolated hosting essential for sensitive citizen data and critical infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server within Microsoft Azure that is dedicated solely to your organization's use. It provides isolation for your virtual machines, ensuring security, compliance, and predictable performance.
How does a dedicated host help with compliance?
By providing a physically isolated environment, dedicated hosts help meet strict regulatory requirements that mandate data separation and prevent co-mingling with other tenants' data.
Can I use my existing Azure VMs on a dedicated host?
Yes, you can deploy your existing Azure Virtual Machines onto dedicated hosts within the same Azure region. This allows you to migrate workloads that require dedicated hardware without significant re-architecting.
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.