Microsoft MSV2 SERIES DEDICATED HOST - MSV2MEDMEM TYPE1
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure compute capacity with the MSV2 Series Dedicated Host subscription, ensuring predictable performance and enhanced security for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Resources: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring consistent performance for your workloads.
- Enhanced Security: Benefit from a physically isolated environment, crucial for meeting stringent regulatory compliance and data privacy requirements.
- Predictable Performance: Maintain stable and reliable application performance, essential for business continuity and user experience.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize spending by dedicating hardware resources, avoiding overprovisioning and managing costs effectively for your specific needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft MSV2 Series Dedicated Host subscription provides dedicated physical servers within Azure, offering exclusive compute resources for your organization. This offering ensures enhanced security, predictable performance, and compliance with regulatory standards by isolating your workloads on hardware you control.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require greater control over their infrastructure, need to meet specific compliance mandates, or run sensitive applications that benefit from a dedicated environment. It integrates directly into your Azure environment, allowing you to manage your dedicated hosts and virtual machines through familiar Azure tools.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your virtual machines run on dedicated physical servers, free from interference by other tenants.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet strict regulatory and internal policy requirements with a physically isolated and secure hosting environment.
- Performance Predictability: Experience consistent and reliable application performance, unaffected by the activities of other Azure customers.
- Azure Hybrid Benefit: Utilize existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to reduce costs when deploying on dedicated hosts.
- Flexible Management: Manage your dedicated hosts and associated virtual machines using the same Azure portal and APIs you already use.
Optimize your Azure environment with dedicated resources, ensuring performance, security, and compliance for your business-critical applications.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Workloads with Dedicated Hardware
Enable teams to run sensitive applications and workloads on physically isolated servers, ensuring data privacy and security. Streamline compliance efforts by maintaining control over the underlying hardware environment.
cloud-hosted applications, regulated data processing, internal business applications, virtual desktop infrastructure
Ensure Predictable Application Performance
Automate consistent application performance by dedicating physical server resources, eliminating the impact of noisy neighbors. Support critical business operations with reliable and stable compute capacity.
performance-sensitive workloads, business continuity planning, mission-critical applications, high-transaction systems
Meet Stringent Compliance and Regulatory Needs
Automate adherence to industry-specific regulations and internal security policies by utilizing dedicated hardware. Provide auditable proof of isolation and control for compliance reporting.
HIPAA compliant environments, PCI DSS environments, GDPR data processing, internal security audits
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Eliminates noisy neighbor issues, providing consistent and predictable performance for your applications.
Physical Isolation
Enhances security and helps meet strict compliance requirements by isolating your workloads.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Allows you to use existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to reduce costs.
Azure Management Tools
Manage dedicated hosts and VMs using the familiar Azure portal and APIs.
Subscription Billing
Provides a predictable operational expense model for your dedicated compute resources.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high levels of security, predictable performance for trading and transaction systems, and strict adherence to regulations like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, necessitating secure and isolated environments for patient data and critical medical applications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and require secure, reliable infrastructure to maintain client confidentiality and operational continuity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often run specialized software for control systems or data analytics that require consistent performance and may have specific security or isolation needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host is a physical server that is dedicated to a single Azure customer. This provides enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance by ensuring your workloads are not sharing hardware with other tenants.
How does this help with compliance?
Dedicated hosts offer physical isolation, which is often a requirement for meeting strict regulatory standards like HIPAA or PCI DSS. It provides greater control over your environment for audit and compliance purposes.
Can I use my existing Windows Server licenses?
Yes, you can often leverage the Azure Hybrid Benefit to use your existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses on dedicated hosts, which can significantly reduce your costs.
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.