Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host - ESV3 Type2
Secure dedicated hosting with Microsoft's ESV3 Series Dedicated Host provides your business with isolated physical servers for enhanced performance and compliance, ensuring your critical applications run without interference.
- Isolated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring predictable performance for your workloads.
- Enhanced Security: Maintain strict data isolation and meet regulatory compliance requirements by hosting sensitive data on dedicated hardware.
- Performance Predictability: Benefit from consistent, high-performance computing resources tailored to your specific application needs.
- Cost Efficiency: Achieve enterprise-grade hosting capabilities without the overhead of managing your own physical data center infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host offers dedicated physical servers within Azure, providing a secure and isolated environment for your business-critical applications. This offering ensures that your workloads run on hardware exclusively assigned to your organization, delivering predictable performance and meeting stringent compliance mandates.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this dedicated host solution integrates directly into your Azure environment. It allows for the migration of workloads that require dedicated hardware for licensing, security, or performance reasons, maintaining the flexibility of cloud deployment.
- Dedicated Physical Servers: Exclusive use of physical servers in Azure data centers.
- Licensing Flexibility: Supports bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios for Windows Server and SQL Server.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps meet regulatory requirements for data isolation and residency.
- Performance Optimization: Consistent, high-performance compute resources for demanding applications.
- Cost Management: Predictable hosting costs with subscription-based billing.
This dedicated host solution empowers SMB and mid-market organizations to achieve enterprise-level control and performance for their Azure deployments.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Server Workloads
Enable teams to run applications that require dedicated physical servers due to licensing agreements or performance guarantees. Streamline the deployment of virtual machines on isolated hardware, ensuring predictable resource allocation and preventing performance degradation from shared environments.
on-premises server consolidation, cloud migration, application modernization, hybrid cloud deployments
Meet Strict Compliance Requirements
Automate compliance with industry regulations that mandate data isolation or dedicated hardware for sensitive information. Protect your organization by ensuring that your data and applications reside on infrastructure exclusively controlled by your business, reducing audit risks.
regulatory compliance, data sovereignty, security-focused deployments, risk mitigation strategies
Optimize Licensing for Specific Software
Streamline the management of software licenses that are tied to physical hardware or require dedicated cores/processors. Ensure license compliance and cost-effectiveness by dedicating specific physical servers to these licensed applications, avoiding potential penalties.
software licensing optimization, application performance tuning, IT cost management, infrastructure standardization
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring isolation from other tenants and guaranteeing predictable performance for your workloads.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly integrates into your existing Azure environment, allowing for cloud-based management and deployment of dedicated resources.
Windows Server and SQL Server Licensing
Supports bring-your-own-license (BYOL) for Windows Server and SQL Server, enabling cost savings and compliance with existing agreements.
Security and Compliance
Helps meet stringent regulatory requirements and data isolation needs by providing dedicated hardware for sensitive data and applications.
Subscription Billing
Offers predictable monthly costs for dedicated hardware, simplifying budgeting and financial planning for your infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require dedicated infrastructure to meet strict regulatory compliance standards like PCI DSS and SOX, and to ensure the security and isolation of sensitive customer data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA regulations, which mandate robust data security and isolation for protected health information (PHI), making dedicated hosts a suitable choice for compliance.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information and often have specific data residency and security requirements that are best met with dedicated, isolated infrastructure.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers may run specialized operational technology (OT) or critical business applications that demand consistent, high performance and isolation from other network traffic to ensure uninterrupted production.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server that is dedicated to a single customer. This means that the hardware is not shared with any other tenants, providing enhanced security, isolation, and predictable performance for your workloads.
What are the benefits of using a dedicated host?
Benefits include improved security through isolation, predictable performance, compliance with regulatory requirements, and flexibility in licensing. It allows organizations to run workloads that require dedicated hardware without managing their own physical data center.
Can I use my existing Microsoft licenses with a dedicated host?
Yes, Microsoft's dedicated host offerings typically support bring-your-own-license (BYOL) for Windows Server and SQL Server. This allows you to leverage your existing investments and ensure license compliance.
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.