Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host - ESV3 Type2
Secure dedicated hosting for your business applications with Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Hosts, ensuring compliance and performance for your critical workloads.
- Dedicated Resources: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring predictable performance and isolation for your sensitive applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements with dedicated infrastructure that provides enhanced security and auditability.
- Performance Predictability: Eliminate noisy neighbor issues and guarantee consistent application performance for your business-critical operations.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize your IT spend by consolidating workloads onto dedicated hardware, reducing the overhead of managing physical infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host provides exclusive access to physical servers within Azure's US North Central region, specifically the ESV3 Type2 hardware. This offering is designed for businesses requiring a dedicated environment to run their own server workloads, ensuring isolation, enhanced security, and predictable performance for their applications.
This dedicated host solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to maintain control over their physical infrastructure for compliance, security, or performance reasons. It fits within an organization's Azure environment, allowing them to run virtual machines on dedicated hardware, thereby meeting specific regulatory or licensing requirements without the complexity of managing their own data center.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your virtual machines run on physical servers dedicated solely to your organization, preventing resource contention.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Maintain a higher level of security and control over your environment, crucial for sensitive data and compliance.
- Licensing Flexibility: Potentially leverage existing on-premises software licenses for use in the cloud, optimizing software costs.
- Predictable Performance: Guarantees consistent performance levels, essential for mission-critical applications and services.
- Regulatory Compliance: Assists in meeting strict industry and government regulations that mandate dedicated infrastructure.
Ensure your business applications run on secure, compliant, and high-performance dedicated infrastructure with Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Hosts.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Workloads for Compliance
Enable teams to run sensitive applications and workloads on dedicated physical servers to meet strict regulatory compliance mandates. This ensures data isolation and provides the necessary audit trails for governance.
regulated environments, data sovereignty requirements, strict security policies, virtual machine consolidation
Guarantee Application Performance
Streamline application delivery by ensuring consistent and predictable performance for business-critical systems. Dedicated hardware eliminates resource contention from other tenants, guaranteeing optimal user experience.
performance-sensitive applications, high-transaction systems, critical business services, user experience focus
Optimize Existing Software Licensing
Automate the process of leveraging existing on-premises software licenses for cloud deployments. Dedicated hosts often allow for more flexible and cost-effective use of certain software licenses in the cloud.
bring-your-own-license scenarios, cost optimization strategies, hybrid cloud deployments, long-term software investments
Key Features
Exclusive physical server access
Ensures predictable performance and complete isolation for your applications, preventing resource contention.
Azure US North Central region
Provides a geographically strategic location for your workloads, supporting disaster recovery and latency requirements.
ESV3 Type2 hardware
Offers a specific, high-performance hardware configuration optimized for demanding virtualized workloads.
Subscription billing
Allows for predictable operational expenses and easier budgeting for your dedicated hosting needs.
Microsoft Azure platform
Integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, providing a unified cloud management experience.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data isolation and security to comply with regulations like PCI DSS and GDPR, making dedicated hosts a suitable choice for sensitive financial data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA regulations, which mandate specific security and privacy controls for patient data, often best met with dedicated infrastructure.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information, necessitating dedicated environments to ensure data privacy and meet client-specific security agreements.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have strict security mandates and data residency requirements that can be fulfilled by dedicated cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with public sector standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server with Azure that is dedicated to a single customer. This provides greater control, security, and compliance capabilities compared to shared hosting environments.
Can I use my existing software licenses with dedicated hosts?
Yes, dedicated hosts often allow you to bring your existing on-premises software licenses to Azure, which can lead to significant cost savings. Specific license mobility rights depend on your software agreements.
How does this differ from standard Azure virtual machines?
Standard Azure VMs run on shared physical hardware, while dedicated hosts ensure your VMs run on hardware exclusively assigned to your organization, offering enhanced isolation and control.
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.