
Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host - ESV3 Type3
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure ESV3 Series hosting to ensure your business applications run on isolated, high-performance hardware, providing enhanced security and compliance.
- Dedicated Resources: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring consistent performance and isolation for your critical workloads.
- Enhanced Security: Benefit from hardware-level isolation, reducing the risk of noisy neighbors and improving your overall security posture.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements with dedicated infrastructure that provides a controlled and auditable environment.
- Cost Predictability: Manage your cloud spend effectively with a subscription-based model for dedicated host capacity.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft ESV3 Series Dedicated Host provides dedicated physical servers within the Azure cloud, offering a secure and isolated environment for your virtual machines. This offering, specifically the ESV3 Type3 instance, is designed for workloads that require a high degree of control, performance predictability, and compliance adherence.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to run sensitive applications, maintain specific compliance standards, or ensure consistent performance for their business operations without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
- Isolated Hardware: Run your VMs on dedicated physical servers, ensuring no other tenants share your hardware resources.
- Performance Consistency: Achieve predictable performance levels for your applications, free from the impact of other users' workloads.
- Licensing Benefits: Utilize your existing eligible Microsoft software licenses on dedicated Azure infrastructure, potentially reducing costs.
- Compliance Support: Meet regulatory and compliance requirements through dedicated, isolated infrastructure.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrate with other Azure services for a complete cloud solution.
This dedicated host solution offers SMB and mid-market teams enterprise-grade infrastructure control and performance without the complexity of on-premises hardware management.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Workload Isolation
Enable teams to run sensitive applications on dedicated physical servers, ensuring data privacy and security. This isolation prevents resource contention and enhances the overall security posture of critical business systems.
virtualized environments, private cloud deployments, compliance-sensitive workloads, business-critical applications
Meet Strict Regulatory Compliance
Streamline adherence to industry regulations and compliance standards by utilizing dedicated infrastructure. This provides a controlled and auditable environment necessary for data protection and governance requirements.
regulated industries, data sovereignty requirements, audit-heavy environments, secure data processing
Guarantee Application Performance
Automate consistent application performance by dedicating physical server resources exclusively to your virtual machines. This eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect and ensures predictable response times for user-facing applications.
performance-sensitive applications, high-transaction systems, user-facing services, predictable SLA environments
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Ensures exclusive use of hardware resources, preventing performance interference from other tenants and enhancing security.
Hardware Isolation
Provides a secure boundary for your workloads, reducing the attack surface and protecting sensitive data.
Performance Predictability
Delivers consistent and reliable application performance, crucial for business-critical operations and user experience.
Azure Integration
Allows seamless connection with other Azure services, enabling a comprehensive and scalable cloud solution.
Subscription Billing
Offers predictable monthly costs for dedicated infrastructure, simplifying budget management for IT operations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data security, isolation, and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which dedicated hosts help address through physical isolation and controlled environments.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, making dedicated infrastructure essential for protecting sensitive patient data and ensuring auditability.
Legal & Professional Services
Firms handling confidential client information need robust security and data isolation to maintain client trust and comply with professional conduct rules and data protection laws.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Critical operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems often require predictable performance and a secure, isolated environment to prevent disruptions and ensure safety.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host in Azure is a physical server that is dedicated to a single customer. It provides isolation at the physical server level, ensuring that your virtual machines run on hardware exclusively used by you.
What are the benefits of using dedicated hosts for SMBs?
SMBs benefit from dedicated hosts by gaining enhanced security, predictable performance, and the ability to meet compliance requirements without the capital expenditure and operational overhead of managing their own physical infrastructure.
Can I use my existing Windows Server licenses with dedicated hosts?
Yes, eligible existing Microsoft software licenses, such as Windows Server and SQL Server, can often be brought to Azure dedicated hosts, potentially reducing your overall cloud costs. Specific license eligibility should be verified.
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.