Microsoft DSV3 Series Dedicated Host License
Gain access to dedicated Microsoft Azure DSV3 Series host resources, ensuring your critical business applications run on isolated, high-performance infrastructure.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Access to physical servers exclusively for your workloads, enhancing security and performance.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance by utilizing certified hardware and environments for sensitive data.
- Performance Optimization: Benefit from consistent, predictable performance for your business-critical applications without noisy neighbors.
- Cost Predictability: Subscription-based licensing offers clear budgeting for your dedicated hosting needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This subscription provides licensing for Microsoft Azure DSV3 Series Dedicated Hosts, offering you exclusive access to physical servers within Azure datacenters. This ensures your virtual machines run on hardware dedicated solely to your organization, providing enhanced security, performance isolation, and compliance capabilities.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this license is for businesses that require dedicated infrastructure for their own IT operations. It fits within your Azure environment, allowing you to deploy and manage your virtual machines on your own dedicated hardware, ensuring control and predictability.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your virtual machines run on physical servers dedicated only to your organization.
- Enhanced Security: Isolate your workloads from other tenants for improved security posture.
- Predictable Performance: Consistent and reliable performance for your most demanding applications.
- Compliance Support: Meet stringent regulatory requirements by using dedicated, certified infrastructure.
- Flexible Deployment: Deploy Windows Server and Linux virtual machines on your dedicated hosts.
This dedicated host license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing to ensure compliance, security, and performance for their own critical business applications.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Workload Isolation
Enable teams to deploy critical business applications on physical servers exclusively dedicated to their organization. This ensures enhanced security and predictable performance for sensitive workloads.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, virtual machine consolidation, compliance-driven environments
Streamline Regulatory Compliance
Streamline adherence to strict industry regulations by utilizing certified, isolated hardware for data processing and storage. This provides a clear audit trail and reduces compliance risk.
data residency requirements, industry-specific compliance standards, sensitive data handling, secure application hosting
Automate Performance Management
Automate the process of ensuring consistent application performance by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect common in shared hosting environments. Dedicated hosts guarantee resource availability.
high-transaction volume applications, performance-sensitive workloads, business continuity planning, predictable resource allocation
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Your virtual machines run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, enhancing security and performance isolation.
Azure Infrastructure
Leverage Microsoft's global datacenter network for reliability, scalability, and access to cutting-edge technology.
Subscription Licensing
Predictable monthly costs for dedicated hardware, simplifying budgeting and financial planning.
Compliance Capabilities
Meet stringent regulatory requirements by using dedicated, certified infrastructure for sensitive data.
Performance Predictability
Ensure consistent and reliable performance for your most demanding business-critical applications.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data security and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts essential for protecting sensitive customer data and transaction information.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and HITECH, necessitating secure, isolated environments to protect patient health information (PHI) and ensure data privacy.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers handle highly confidential client data and often have strict data residency and privacy requirements, benefiting from the isolation and security of dedicated hardware.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often rely on mission-critical systems for production and logistics that demand high availability and predictable performance, which dedicated hosts can provide without interference from other tenants.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Dedicated Host?
A Dedicated Host is a physical server with Azure infrastructure that is dedicated to a single customer. This provides enhanced security, compliance, and performance isolation for your virtual machines.
Who is this license for?
This license is for businesses, specifically SMB and mid-market companies, that require dedicated physical servers for their own IT operations to meet security, compliance, or performance needs.
How does this differ from standard Azure VMs?
Standard Azure VMs run on shared physical hardware. Dedicated Hosts provide you with exclusive access to the underlying physical server, offering greater control and isolation.
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.