Introduction to Azure Dedicated
Host
What is Azure Dedicated Host Azure Dedicated Host provides physical servers that host one or more Azure virtual machines. Your server is dedicated to your organization and workloads capacity is not shared with other customers. This host-level isolation helps address compliance requirements. Azure Dedicated Hosts provides visibility and control to help address corporate compliance and regulatory requirements. Azure Dedicated Host service extends Azure Hybrid Benefit to Azure Dedicated Hosts, so you can save money by using on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance or qualifying subscription licenses when you use Azure VMs on your dedicated host.
Benefits from Azure Dedicated Host
There are several benefits of using an Azure Dedicated host. Let us discuss some of them that are as follows:
1.Hardware isolation: Your VM will be isolated at the physical level. No other subscriptions can deploy their VMs to your reserved physical server. However, your server will share networking infrastructure with other, non-isolated servers.
2.Better security: Since your VM is isolated, there is less chance of accidental data access, as is a risk with Multitenant servers. For many organizations, security consideration is a major barrier in migrating to the cloud. Azure Dedicated host is the solution to those concerns.
3.Licensing benefits: If a user is operating on OS Windows or other proprietary licensing already purchased for the software. One can use those with Azure Dedicated hosts. This will also significantly reduce your Cloud cost. Azure has a feature called hybrid benefits.
4.Control over maintenance: With a dedicated host, you can select when, how, and how often maintenance to your physical server takes place. Maintenance is only a key consideration when your application is highly critical, and even a few seconds of downtime could affect business performance.
Importance of Azure Dedicated Host
Hardware isolation at the physical server level. No other VMs will be placed on your hosts. Dedicated hosts are deployed in the same data centers and share the same network and underlying storage infrastructure as other, non-isolated hosts.
Control over support events initiated by the Azure platform. While the majority of support events have little to no impact on your Azure Virtual Machines, there are some sensitive workloads where each second of pause can have an impact. With dedicated hosts, you can opt in to a support window to reduce the impact to your service.
Simplify the deployment of business-critical applications in a single-tenant environment. Increase control and scalability, without limiting your options. Deploy Windows, Linux, and SQL Server virtual machines on Azure. Select the server and CPU type, number of cores, and additional features. The underlying hosts you provision are single-tenant and dedicated to your Azure VMs and workloads. You determine the timing of all platform-initiated maintenance operations, such as OS patching, or hardware or software restarts. Select Azure VM sizes and operating systems on the same host.
• Comply with corporate policies and industry-specific standards by taking advantage of the certifications Azure offers. Place your Azure VMs on a dedicated hosting server that runs only your organization’s workloads to meet corporate compliance guidelines and standards. Get insights on the underlying cores to meet server-based software licensing requirements. With the Azure hybrid benefit, you can bring your own licenses for Windows and Migrate SQL Server to Azure. Using the hybrid benefits provides you with additional benefits.
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