Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host - ESV3 Type1
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure compute resources with the ESV3 Series Dedicated Host, ensuring predictable performance and isolation for your critical business workloads.
- Dedicated Resources: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring consistent performance for your applications.
- Enhanced Security: Benefit from hardware isolation, providing a secure environment for sensitive data and meeting stringent compliance requirements.
- Cost Predictability: Enjoy a fixed monthly cost for dedicated hardware, simplifying budgeting and avoiding unexpected cloud spend fluctuations.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrate with other Azure services for a unified cloud management experience and extended capabilities.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host provides dedicated physical servers within Azure, offering a secure and isolated environment for your most demanding workloads. This offering ensures that your applications run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, guaranteeing predictable performance and enhanced security.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require greater control over their infrastructure, need to meet specific compliance mandates, or want to consolidate existing on-premises workloads into a dedicated cloud environment.
- Hardware Isolation: Your workloads run on a physical server dedicated solely to your organization, eliminating resource contention from other tenants.
- Performance Consistency: Experience predictable and stable performance, crucial for latency-sensitive applications and critical business operations.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory and compliance requirements by maintaining dedicated, isolated hardware for sensitive data and applications.
- Azure Hybrid Benefit: Utilize existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to reduce costs when deploying on dedicated hosts.
- Flexible Deployment: Easily deploy and manage virtual machines on your dedicated host, integrating seamlessly with your existing Azure infrastructure.
Optimize your cloud strategy with dedicated Azure compute, offering enterprise-grade isolation and predictable performance for your business needs.
What This Enables
Enable predictable application performance
Enable teams to run latency-sensitive applications, such as financial trading platforms or real-time analytics, with guaranteed consistent performance. Streamline operations by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect common in shared cloud environments.
virtualized workloads, performance-critical applications, dedicated infrastructure needs, cloud consolidation
Meet stringent regulatory compliance
Ensure compliance with industry regulations like HIPAA or GDPR by deploying sensitive data and applications on isolated, dedicated hardware. Automate adherence to data residency and security mandates through dedicated physical server allocation.
regulated industries, data privacy requirements, secure data processing, compliance-driven deployments
Consolidate on-premises workloads
Streamline the migration of existing on-premises servers and applications to a dedicated cloud environment, reducing the complexity of managing physical infrastructure. Enable IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than hardware maintenance.
server consolidation, hybrid cloud strategy, on-premises datacenter exit, infrastructure modernization
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Server
Ensures your virtual machines run on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization, preventing performance interference from other tenants.
Hardware Isolation
Provides a secure boundary for your data and applications, helping to meet strict security and compliance requirements.
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.
Flexible VM Deployment
Enables you to deploy and manage your virtual machines on the dedicated host using standard Azure tools and APIs.
Predictable Pricing
Offers a fixed monthly cost for dedicated hardware, simplifying budgeting and financial planning for your cloud infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, data isolation, and predictable performance to meet strict regulatory compliance and handle sensitive customer data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, necessitating isolated environments for patient health information (PHI) and critical medical applications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client information and require secure, isolated infrastructure to maintain client trust and meet data protection mandates.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often rely on real-time control systems and sensitive intellectual property that benefit from dedicated, high-performance, and secure computing resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Dedicated Host?
A Dedicated Host is a physical server within Azure that is dedicated to a single customer. This provides hardware isolation, ensuring your workloads run on infrastructure exclusively allocated to your organization.
How does a Dedicated Host improve security?
By providing hardware isolation, Dedicated Hosts prevent your workloads from sharing physical servers with other tenants. This reduces the attack surface and helps meet stringent security and compliance requirements for sensitive data.
Can I use my existing Microsoft licenses with Dedicated Hosts?
Yes, you can leverage the Azure Hybrid Benefit to use your eligible on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance on Dedicated Hosts, potentially reducing your Azure 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.