Microsoft EASv4 Series Dedicated Host
Secure dedicated Microsoft Azure EASv4 series hosts provide isolated compute capacity for your most demanding business applications, ensuring performance and compliance.
- Isolated Compute: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring predictable performance for your critical applications.
- Enhanced Security: Dedicated hardware offers an additional layer of security, isolating your workloads from other tenants for greater data protection.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements by maintaining control over your dedicated hardware environment.
- Optimized Performance: Run your most resource-intensive applications, databases, and virtual desktops with guaranteed performance and low latency.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft EASv4 Series Dedicated Host is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to a single customer. This offering provides enhanced security, isolation, and performance for your Azure virtual machines, ensuring that your workloads do not share physical hardware with other tenants.
This dedicated host solution is ideal for businesses that require a higher level of control, security, and predictable performance for their critical applications, databases, or virtual desktop infrastructure. It helps meet compliance mandates and provides a stable platform for sensitive data and operations.
- Dedicated Physical Servers: Full isolation of compute resources for maximum security and performance.
- Optimized for High-Demand Workloads: Ideal for running large databases, enterprise applications, and VDI environments.
- Compliance and Regulatory Support: Helps meet strict data residency and isolation requirements.
- Predictable Performance: Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent resource availability.
- Cost-Effective Licensing: Allows for bringing existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance for potential savings.
Zent Networks offers dedicated Microsoft Azure hosts to empower SMB and mid-market organizations with enterprise-grade infrastructure without the overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Isolated High-Performance Computing
Enable teams to run resource-intensive applications, such as large databases or complex simulations, on dedicated hardware. This ensures consistent performance and prevents interference from other tenants' workloads.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure, mission-critical application hosting
Meet Stringent Compliance and Security Mandates
Streamline adherence to regulatory requirements by deploying workloads on physically isolated servers. This provides an additional layer of security for sensitive data and helps meet data residency or isolation policies.
regulated industry workloads, sensitive data processing, secure development environments, compliance-focused IT infrastructure
Optimize Existing License Investments
Automate the deployment of virtual machines that can leverage existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance. This can lead to significant cost savings and maintain licensing compliance.
license mobility scenarios, cost optimization initiatives, hybrid licensing strategies, enterprise software deployments
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Gain exclusive access to physical hardware, ensuring maximum security, isolation, and predictable performance for your Azure VMs.
EASv4 Series Hardware
Utilize modern, high-performance hardware optimized for demanding workloads, including Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors.
License Mobility
Bring your existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to Azure Dedicated Hosts for potential cost savings.
Enhanced Security Posture
Isolate your workloads from other tenants, reducing the attack surface and meeting stringent security requirements.
Compliance Support
Meet regulatory and industry compliance standards that require dedicated or isolated compute resources.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high levels of security and isolation to protect sensitive customer data and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating isolated environments for patient data and critical medical applications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client information and require secure, reliable infrastructure to maintain client trust and operational continuity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often rely on specialized software and control systems that demand predictable performance and high availability, making dedicated hosts a suitable option.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to a single customer. It provides isolation for your Azure virtual machines, ensuring they do not share physical hardware with other tenants.
What are the benefits of using dedicated hosts?
Benefits include enhanced security through isolation, predictable performance by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect, and the ability to meet compliance requirements for dedicated hardware.
Can I bring my own licenses to Azure Dedicated Hosts?
Yes, you can bring eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to Azure Dedicated Hosts through license mobility, potentially reducing 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.