Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host - ESV3 Type2
Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Hosts provide dedicated physical servers for your Azure workloads, ensuring isolation and compliance for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Access to exclusive physical servers within Azure, preventing noisy neighbor issues and enhancing security.
- Performance Assurance: Consistent and predictable performance for your most demanding applications, without sharing resources.
- Compliance Ready: Meet strict regulatory and data residency requirements with dedicated hardware environments.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize spending by dedicating hardware to your specific workloads, potentially reducing TCO for high-utilization scenarios.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host is a dedicated physical server hosted in an Azure datacenter, exclusively for your use. This offering provides the highest level of isolation for your virtual machines, ensuring that your workloads run on hardware that is not shared with other Azure customers. It is designed to meet stringent compliance requirements and provide predictable performance for your most critical applications.
This dedicated host solution is ideal for businesses that require dedicated infrastructure for regulatory compliance, sensitive data handling, or predictable performance. IT Managers and IT Professionals can deploy virtual machines on these hosts to maintain control over their hardware environment while benefiting from the scalability and flexibility of Azure.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Guarantees that your virtual machines run on a dedicated physical server, providing enhanced security and isolation.
- Performance Predictability: Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent performance for resource-intensive applications.
- Compliance Enablement: Assists in meeting regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS by providing dedicated, auditable infrastructure.
- Licensing Flexibility: Allows for the use of existing on-premises licenses with Software Assurance for certain Microsoft server products on dedicated hosts.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Azure services for a complete cloud solution.
For SMB and mid-market organizations needing dedicated Azure infrastructure for compliance and performance, the ESV3 Series Dedicated Host offers a secure and predictable environment.
What This Enables
Enable secure deployment of sensitive workloads
Enable teams to deploy virtual machines containing sensitive customer data or proprietary information on physically isolated hardware. This ensures that your data remains separate from other organizations, meeting strict security protocols.
private cloud, hybrid cloud, compliance-driven deployments, data sovereignty requirements
Meet stringent regulatory compliance
Streamline adherence to industry regulations like HIPAA, PCI DSS, or GDPR by utilizing dedicated hardware that provides an auditable and isolated environment. This reduces the complexity of compliance audits and risk mitigation.
regulated industries, data privacy mandates, audit-heavy environments, secure data processing
Guarantee application performance and availability
Automate the provisioning of dedicated resources to ensure consistent, high performance for mission-critical applications like ERP systems or financial trading platforms. This prevents performance degradation caused by shared resource contention.
performance-sensitive applications, high-utilization workloads, business continuity planning, predictable resource needs
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides complete isolation from other Azure customers, enhancing security and preventing performance interference.
Azure Region Availability
Allows deployment within specific Azure regions to meet data residency requirements and reduce latency for end-users.
Support for Azure Hybrid Benefit
Enables the use of existing on-premises Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance for cost savings.
High Performance Compute
Offers powerful processors and memory configurations suitable for demanding enterprise applications.
Compliance Certifications
Helps meet various industry and government compliance standards through dedicated infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data security and isolation to meet regulatory compliance like PCI DSS and protect sensitive customer financial data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to ensure the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client data, requiring dedicated environments to maintain client privilege and meet data protection standards.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have strict data sovereignty and security mandates, requiring dedicated hardware to ensure the integrity and protection of sensitive government information.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server within an Azure datacenter that is dedicated solely to your organization's use. It provides a higher level of isolation and control compared to standard virtual machine instances.
Who is this service for?
This service is ideal for businesses that require dedicated infrastructure for compliance reasons, need predictable performance for critical applications, or want to leverage existing on-premises licenses in the cloud.
How does this differ from a standard VM?
Unlike standard virtual machines that run on shared physical hardware, dedicated hosts provide you with an entire physical server, ensuring no resource contention from other tenants and offering greater control over your environment.
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.