Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host License
Secure your dedicated Azure infrastructure with Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host licensing, ensuring compliance and consistent performance for your critical business applications.
- License Coverage: Access to dedicated physical servers within Azure, providing isolation and control for your workloads.
- Compliance Assurance: Meets regulatory and internal policy requirements by ensuring your data resides on dedicated hardware.
- Performance Consistency: Guarantees predictable performance by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect common in shared environments.
- Feature Entitlement: Unlocks specific Azure capabilities and services tied to the DSV3 hardware platform for enhanced functionality.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host license provides the entitlement to deploy and operate virtual machines on dedicated physical servers hosted within Microsoft Azure's US South Central region. It ensures that your workloads run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, offering enhanced security, compliance, and performance predictability.
This licensing is designed for businesses that require a higher degree of control over their cloud infrastructure, such as those with strict regulatory obligations, sensitive data, or performance-sensitive applications. It integrates directly into your Azure environment, allowing IT Managers and IT Professionals to manage dedicated resources alongside other Azure services.
- Dedicated Hardware: Gain exclusive use of physical servers in Azure data centers, enhancing security and isolation.
- Performance Predictability: Avoid performance fluctuations caused by other tenants sharing the same physical hardware.
- Compliance Adherence: Satisfy stringent regulatory requirements and internal policies by controlling hardware allocation.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize spending by dedicating hardware for predictable, long-term workloads.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly manage dedicated hosts and their associated VMs through the Azure portal and APIs.
This dedicated host license is ideal for SMB and mid-market organizations seeking enterprise-grade control and predictability within their Azure cloud environment.
What This Enables
Enable Isolated Workloads for Sensitive Data
Enable teams to deploy virtual machines on dedicated physical servers, ensuring sensitive data is isolated from other tenants. This provides a secure environment for critical business information and applications.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, data sovereignty requirements
Streamline Compliance with Regulatory Mandates
Streamline adherence to industry regulations and internal policies by utilizing dedicated hardware that meets specific data residency and isolation requirements. This simplifies audit processes and reduces compliance risk.
audited environments, compliance-driven IT strategies, secure data handling protocols, governance frameworks
Automate Performance Guarantees for Critical Apps
Automate the delivery of consistent and predictable performance for business-critical applications by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect. This ensures applications remain responsive and available when needed most.
performance-sensitive applications, high-availability architectures, mission-critical systems, predictable resource allocation
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive use of physical hardware in Azure, enhancing security, isolation, and performance predictability for your workloads.
DSV3 Series Hardware
Access to specific Azure hardware configurations optimized for general-purpose workloads, offering a balance of compute, memory, and storage.
Azure US South Central Region
Deployment within a specific geographic region ensures data residency and can help meet latency requirements for users in that area.
Subscription Billing
Enables predictable monthly billing for dedicated hardware, simplifying financial planning and budgeting for cloud infrastructure.
Platform Licensing
Grants the necessary rights to utilize the dedicated host hardware for running your virtual machines within the Azure ecosystem.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data isolation and security to comply with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts essential for sensitive transaction data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations, which mandate protected health information (PHI) be handled with specific security controls, often necessitating dedicated infrastructure for compliance.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client data and intellectual property, requiring dedicated environments to maintain client privilege and data security.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance mandates (e.g., FedRAMP) that benefit from the isolation and control offered by dedicated hosting solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host in Azure is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to a single customer's use. This provides greater isolation and control over your virtual machines compared to shared hosting environments.
Why would my business need a dedicated host?
Businesses need dedicated hosts for reasons such as meeting strict regulatory compliance requirements, ensuring predictable performance for critical applications, or managing sensitive data that requires a higher level of isolation.
How does this license differ from standard Azure VM instances?
Standard Azure VM instances run on shared physical hardware, while dedicated host licenses allow you to run your VMs on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, offering enhanced control 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.