Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host
Gain dedicated access to Microsoft Azure DSV3 Series Dedicated Host infrastructure, ensuring consistent performance and compliance for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Resources: Guaranteed access to physical servers for predictable performance and isolation.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements with dedicated hardware environments for sensitive data.
- Performance Consistency: Avoid noisy neighbor issues and ensure your applications run optimally.
- Cost Efficiency: Access enterprise-grade infrastructure without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host license provides dedicated physical servers within Azure, allowing you to host your virtual machines on hardware solely dedicated to your organization. This ensures enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance for your most critical workloads.
This offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require greater control over their Azure environment, need to meet strict compliance mandates, or want to ensure consistent performance for their business-critical applications without the complexity of on-premises hardware management.
- Dedicated Physical Servers: Host your Azure VMs on hardware exclusively for your use, enhancing security and isolation.
- Compliance and Governance: Facilitate adherence to industry regulations and internal governance policies.
- Predictable Performance: Eliminate the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent and reliable application performance.
- License Mobility: Bring your existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance for cost savings.
- Azure Hybrid Benefit: Utilize existing on-premises licenses to reduce Azure costs.
Ensure your business-critical applications have the dedicated, compliant, and performant infrastructure they need with Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Azure Infrastructure for Sensitive Workloads
Enable teams to deploy business-critical applications on hardware exclusively dedicated to their organization. This ensures enhanced security, isolation, and predictable performance for sensitive data and core business functions.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, high-performance computing
Meet Strict Regulatory Compliance in the Cloud
Streamline adherence to industry-specific regulations and internal governance policies by utilizing dedicated physical servers. This provides a controlled environment necessary for processing and storing sensitive information.
data residency requirements, audit compliance, secure data processing, controlled IT environments
Guarantee Application Performance and Stability
Automate the provisioning of resources that prevent the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent and reliable performance for all hosted virtual machines. This is crucial for applications with strict uptime and responsiveness demands.
mission-critical application hosting, performance-sensitive workloads, predictable resource allocation, business continuity planning
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive use of physical servers in Azure, enhancing security, isolation, and predictable performance for your workloads.
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 for Azure Dedicated Hosts.
License Mobility
Enables you to bring your eligible on-premises licenses to Azure Dedicated Hosts, offering flexibility and potential cost savings.
Compliance and Governance
Helps meet regulatory requirements and internal governance policies by providing a dedicated and controlled hardware environment.
Predictable Performance
Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent and reliable performance for your critical applications.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require dedicated infrastructure to meet stringent regulatory compliance standards like PCI DSS and SOX, ensuring the security and isolation of sensitive customer data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations, which necessitate dedicated environments to protect patient health information (PHI) and ensure data privacy and security.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle confidential client information and often have strict data sovereignty and privacy requirements, making dedicated hosts ideal for secure data management.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Companies in this sector often run critical operational technology (OT) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that demand consistent performance and high availability, benefiting from dedicated hardware.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Dedicated Host in Azure?
A Dedicated Host is a physical server with Azure dedicated to running your virtual machines. This provides enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance by ensuring your workloads are not sharing hardware with other customers.
How does the DSV3 Series differ from other Dedicated Host series?
The DSV3 series is optimized for general-purpose workloads and offers a balance of compute and memory. Specific hardware configurations and capabilities may vary across different dedicated host series.
Can I use my existing Windows Server licenses with a DSV3 Dedicated Host?
Yes, you can utilize the Azure Hybrid Benefit to use your eligible Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance on DSV3 Dedicated Hosts, significantly reducing your costs.
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.