Microsoft MSV2 Series Dedicated Host
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with the MSV2 Series Dedicated Host subscription, ensuring consistent performance and compliance for your critical business applications.
- Platform Access: Entitlement to utilize dedicated Microsoft Azure hardware for hosting your business workloads, providing predictable performance and isolation.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance by hosting sensitive data and applications on dedicated infrastructure with Microsoft's security controls.
- Operational Continuity: Ensure uninterrupted service for your business operations through reliable hardware and Microsoft's robust cloud platform.
- Cost Predictability: Benefit from a subscription-based licensing model for dedicated hosting, simplifying budgeting and financial planning for IT resources.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft MSV2 Series Dedicated Host subscription provides dedicated physical servers within Microsoft Azure data centers. This offering is designed for businesses requiring a high degree of control, performance predictability, and compliance for their hosted applications and data. It unlocks access to specific hardware configurations optimized for demanding workloads, ensuring your business-critical systems operate without the overhead of managing physical infrastructure.
This dedicated hosting solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who need to host applications that have strict performance, security, or regulatory requirements. It fits into an organization's IT environment by providing a dedicated slice of Azure's cloud, allowing for greater control over the underlying hardware while still benefiting from cloud scalability and management.
- Dedicated Physical Servers: Gain exclusive use of physical servers in Azure, offering enhanced isolation and performance consistency.
- Optimized Hardware Configurations: Access specific hardware types, like the MSMV2MEDMEM TYPE1, tailored for memory-intensive applications.
- Subscription Licensing: A predictable billing model ensures consistent costs for dedicated infrastructure access.
- Compliance and Security: Leverage Microsoft's security framework and dedicated hardware to meet stringent regulatory requirements.
- Performance Predictability: Avoid noisy neighbor issues and ensure consistent application performance for your business-critical systems.
This dedicated hosting solution offers SMB and mid-market teams enterprise-grade infrastructure without the complexity of on-premises management.
What This Enables
Hosting Memory Intensive Applications
Enable teams to deploy and run memory-intensive business applications, such as large databases or in-memory analytics platforms, on dedicated hardware. Streamline operations by ensuring consistent performance and resource availability for these critical workloads.
cloud-hosted applications, dedicated infrastructure needs, performance-sensitive workloads, subscription-based IT services
Meeting Strict Compliance Standards
Automate compliance with industry regulations by hosting sensitive data and applications on isolated, dedicated physical servers. Ensure regulatory requirements are met through Microsoft's secure cloud environment and dedicated hardware configurations.
regulated industries, data privacy mandates, secure application hosting, compliance-driven IT strategy
Optimizing Application Performance
Streamline application performance by dedicating physical server resources, eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect common in shared environments. Ensure predictable and consistent response times for business-critical software essential to daily operations.
performance-critical systems, predictable resource allocation, business continuity planning, IT infrastructure optimization
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides enhanced isolation and predictable performance for your business-critical applications, free from the impact of other tenants.
MSMV2MEDMEM TYPE1 Hardware
Offers optimized memory capacity and performance suitable for memory-intensive workloads and demanding applications.
Subscription Billing
Ensures predictable IT costs and simplifies budgeting for dedicated infrastructure resources.
Microsoft Azure Compliance
Helps meet regulatory requirements by hosting data on secure, dedicated infrastructure within Microsoft's compliant cloud environment.
US Central Region Deployment
Provides low latency and high availability for businesses operating within or serving the central United States.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, data isolation, and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts a suitable choice for sensitive transaction data and core banking applications.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to strict data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, necessitating secure, isolated environments for patient health information (PHI) and critical medical systems.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly confidential client data and often have specific security and data residency requirements that dedicated infrastructure can help meet.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Companies in this sector may run specialized operational technology (OT) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that demand consistent performance and dedicated resources for optimal efficiency and uptime.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Microsoft Dedicated Host?
A Microsoft Dedicated Host is a physical server within Azure that is dedicated to a single customer. This provides greater control, isolation, and predictability for your workloads compared to shared virtualized environments.
Who is the MSV2 Series Dedicated Host for?
This offering is ideal for businesses with specific compliance, security, or performance requirements that necessitate dedicated hardware. It suits organizations that need to run memory-intensive applications or meet strict regulatory standards.
How does the subscription model work?
The subscription model provides access to the dedicated host for a set term, billed on a recurring basis. This offers predictable costs and simplifies financial planning for your IT infrastructure.
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.