Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host
Gain dedicated access to Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host resources, ensuring consistent performance and compliance for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Resources: Guaranteed access to physical servers for predictable performance and isolation.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance with dedicated infrastructure for sensitive data.
- Enhanced Security: Isolate your workloads from other tenants for improved security posture.
- Optimized Performance: Achieve consistent, high-performance computing for demanding applications.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This subscription provides licensing for Microsoft's DSV3 Series Dedicated Host, specifically the DSV3 Type2 configuration in the US East 2 region. It grants your organization exclusive use of physical server hardware within Azure, ensuring your virtual machines run on infrastructure dedicated solely to your environment.
Ideal for businesses requiring strict data isolation, predictable performance, or specific compliance adherence, this offering is managed by Microsoft but dedicated to your tenant. It supports various business models that rely on dedicated compute resources for their internal operations, such as sensitive data processing or mission-critical applications.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your virtual machines run on physical servers dedicated to your organization.
- Predictable Performance: Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent resource availability.
- Compliance Ready: Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements demanding data isolation.
- Simplified Management: Microsoft manages the underlying hardware, reducing your operational burden.
- Cost Efficiency: Offers a predictable subscription model for dedicated infrastructure.
Secure dedicated Azure infrastructure without the overhead of managing physical hardware, perfect for SMB and mid-market teams.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Workloads for Sensitive Data
Enable teams to deploy virtual machines on physically isolated hardware, ensuring sensitive customer or proprietary data remains segregated from other tenants. This provides a higher level of security and meets strict data residency requirements.
cloud deployments, hybrid environments, data isolation needs, regulatory compliance
Streamline Performance for Demanding Applications
Streamline the deployment of resource-intensive applications like large databases or analytics platforms that require consistent, predictable compute performance. Dedicated hosts eliminate the variability of shared infrastructure, ensuring optimal application responsiveness.
performance-sensitive workloads, internal business applications, predictable resource needs, cloud infrastructure
Automate Compliance with Dedicated Infrastructure
Automate adherence to industry-specific compliance standards that mandate dedicated physical servers for processing or storing regulated data. This license simplifies the process of meeting these requirements within a cloud environment.
regulated industries, compliance-driven IT, internal data processing, cloud governance
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Guaranteed access to physical hardware for your virtual machines, eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect and ensuring consistent performance.
Azure Infrastructure Management
Microsoft manages the underlying physical hardware, reducing your operational overhead and simplifying datacenter management.
Subscription Billing
A predictable monthly subscription provides cost control for dedicated compute resources.
DSV3 Series Hardware
Access to modern, efficient hardware optimized for a variety of workloads, including general-purpose computing.
US East 2 Region Availability
Deploy your dedicated hosts in a specific Azure region for latency and compliance benefits.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions often require dedicated infrastructure to meet stringent regulatory compliance standards like PCI DSS and data isolation mandates for sensitive customer financial data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other regulations that necessitate strict data privacy and security, often mandating dedicated hardware for patient health information (PHI).
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client information and may require dedicated infrastructure to maintain client privilege and meet data security protocols.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers may run critical operational technology (OT) systems or sensitive intellectual property on dedicated infrastructure to ensure performance, security, and prevent disruptions to production.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Dedicated Host?
A Dedicated Host is a physical server with Azure dedicated to running your virtual machines. This provides enhanced security, isolation, and predictable performance for your workloads.
Who is this license for?
This license is for businesses that need dedicated physical server resources in Azure for their internal IT operations, often driven by compliance requirements or performance needs.
How does this differ from standard Azure VMs?
Standard Azure VMs run on shared physical hardware. Dedicated Hosts ensure your VMs run on hardware exclusively used by your organization, offering greater isolation and predictability.
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.