Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host - ESV3 Type3
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with the ESV3 Series Dedicated Host, ensuring consistent performance and compliance for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Resources: Guarantees exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring predictable performance for your workloads.
- Compliance Assurance: Meets stringent regulatory and compliance requirements by providing isolated hardware environments for sensitive data and applications.
- Performance Predictability: Offers consistent, high-performance computing power essential for demanding applications like databases, ERP systems, and virtual desktop infrastructure.
- Cost Efficiency: Provides enterprise-grade infrastructure without the overhead of managing physical hardware, optimizing IT spend for your business.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host provides dedicated physical servers within Azure, offering an isolated environment for your workloads. This service ensures that your applications run on hardware exclusively assigned to your organization, delivering predictable performance and enhanced security.
This offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require direct control over their hardware environment for compliance, performance, or licensing reasons. It integrates seamlessly into existing Azure deployments, providing a foundation for critical business systems.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your organization is the sole tenant of the physical server, eliminating resource contention.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Isolated hardware provides an additional layer of security for sensitive data and applications.
- Licensing Flexibility: Supports bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios for certain Microsoft software, potentially reducing costs.
- Performance Consistency: Guarantees a baseline level of performance for demanding workloads.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Azure services for a unified cloud experience.
Secure dedicated infrastructure without the capital expenditure of on-premises hardware, empowering your business with enterprise-grade Azure capabilities.
What This Enables
Enable Isolated Workloads for Compliance
Enable teams to deploy applications and data that require strict isolation to meet regulatory compliance standards. This ensures adherence to data residency and security mandates by providing dedicated physical hardware.
cloud-native deployments, hybrid cloud environments, regulated industries, sensitive data processing
Streamline Performance for Critical Applications
Streamline the performance of demanding applications such as large databases, ERP systems, or VDI environments. Dedicated hardware guarantees consistent resource availability, preventing performance degradation due to shared infrastructure.
high-transaction systems, business-critical applications, performance-sensitive workloads, virtual desktop infrastructure
Automate Licensing for Specific Software
Automate the deployment and management of software licenses that require dedicated hardware, such as certain Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Server editions. This ensures license compliance and optimizes software spend.
bring-your-own-license strategies, specific software vendor requirements, license compliance management, on-premises software migration
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Eliminates noisy neighbor issues and ensures consistent, predictable performance for your critical applications.
Isolated Hardware Environment
Provides enhanced security and helps meet stringent regulatory compliance requirements for sensitive data.
Support for Specific Licensing
Allows for flexible licensing models, including bring-your-own-license (BYOL), potentially reducing software costs.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly integrates with other Azure services, enabling a unified and efficient cloud management experience.
High Performance
Delivers the computing power necessary for demanding workloads like databases, ERP, and VDI.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which are better met with dedicated, isolated hardware environments for sensitive transaction data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, making dedicated hosts a suitable choice for protecting patient health information (PHI) and ensuring data integrity.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle confidential client data and often have strict data residency and security requirements, benefiting from the isolation and control offered by dedicated hardware.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Companies in this sector often run mission-critical operational systems and may have specific licensing needs or require predictable performance for industrial control systems and IoT platforms.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server within Microsoft Azure that is exclusively assigned to your organization. This means you do not share the underlying hardware with any other customers, providing enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance.
Who is the ESV3 Series Dedicated Host for?
This service is ideal for businesses that require dedicated hardware for compliance reasons, need predictable performance for critical applications, or have specific software licensing requirements that mandate dedicated infrastructure. It is particularly suited for SMB and mid-market companies looking for enterprise-grade solutions.
How does this differ from standard Azure VMs?
Standard Azure Virtual Machines run on shared physical hardware, where resources are allocated dynamically. Dedicated hosts provide you with exclusive access to the entire physical server, offering greater control, isolation, and performance predictability.
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.