Microsoft MDSV2 Series Dedicated Host - MDSV2MEDMEM TYPE1
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure for your critical workloads, ensuring performance and compliance for your business operations.
- Dedicated Resources: Coverage for exclusive use of physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring predictable performance for your applications.
- Performance Assurance: Protection against performance degradation due to shared resource contention, maintaining optimal application responsiveness and user experience.
- Compliance Enablement: Entitlement to utilize infrastructure that meets stringent regulatory requirements, supporting data residency and security mandates.
- Operational Continuity: Access to Microsoft's underlying hardware maintenance and support, minimizing unplanned downtime and ensuring business continuity.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft MDSV2 Series Dedicated Host is a subscription-based platform license that grants exclusive access to dedicated physical servers within the Azure cloud. This offering provides a secure and isolated environment, ideal for businesses with specific compliance needs, performance-sensitive applications, or those looking to consolidate workloads from on-premises infrastructure.
This dedicated host solution is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who require greater control over their infrastructure. It fits into environments that demand high levels of security, predictable performance, and adherence to regulatory standards, acting as the foundation for critical business applications and services.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Gain full control over dedicated physical servers, eliminating resource contention and ensuring consistent performance.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Isolate your workloads from other tenants, providing a more secure environment for sensitive data and applications.
- Compliance Adherence: Meet strict regulatory and data residency requirements by deploying on infrastructure designed for compliance.
- Cost Predictability: Benefit from a subscription billing model for dedicated infrastructure, simplifying budgeting and financial planning.
- Optimized for Azure Services: Seamlessly integrate with other Azure services, extending your existing cloud investments.
This dedicated host solution offers SMB and mid-market teams the power of dedicated infrastructure with the flexibility and scalability of Azure, simplifying IT management.
What This Enables
Isolate Sensitive Workloads
Enable teams to run highly sensitive applications and data on dedicated physical servers, ensuring isolation from other tenants. This provides an enhanced security posture and helps meet specific data residency requirements.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, mission-critical application hosting
Guarantee Application Performance
Streamline operations by dedicating physical server resources to critical applications, preventing performance degradation caused by shared resource contention. This ensures consistent and predictable application responsiveness for end-users.
performance-sensitive workloads, business-critical application hosting, predictable resource allocation, high-transaction environments
Meet Strict Compliance Mandates
Automate adherence to industry-specific regulations and internal security policies by deploying on dedicated hardware. This simplifies the process of demonstrating compliance for audits and maintaining data governance.
regulated industry deployments, data sovereignty requirements, audit-ready infrastructure, secure data processing
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Eliminates noisy neighbor issues and ensures consistent, predictable performance for your most critical applications.
Azure Cloud Integration
Seamlessly deploy and manage your dedicated hardware alongside other Azure services, extending your cloud capabilities.
Subscription Licensing
Provides a clear and predictable cost model for dedicated infrastructure, simplifying budgeting and financial planning.
Microsoft Hardware Support
Benefit from Microsoft's management and maintenance of the underlying physical hardware, reducing your operational overhead.
Enhanced Security Isolation
Isolate your workloads from other tenants, offering a more secure environment for sensitive data and applications.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, predictable performance, and strict adherence to regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which dedicated hosts help to satisfy.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, making dedicated, isolated infrastructure essential for protecting sensitive patient information.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client data and often have stringent data residency and security requirements that benefit from dedicated infrastructure.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations may run specialized software or control systems that demand consistent performance and reliability, making dedicated hardware a suitable choice for critical operational technology.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to a single customer. This means you do not share the physical hardware with any other Azure tenants, providing greater isolation and control.
Who is this service for?
This service is ideal for businesses with strict compliance requirements, performance-sensitive applications, or those looking to migrate workloads from on-premises environments that require dedicated hardware.
How does this differ from standard Azure VMs?
Standard Azure Virtual Machines run on shared physical hardware. Dedicated Hosts provide you with exclusive access to the entire physical server, offering enhanced isolation and predictable performance.
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.