Overview

Exoscale Dedicated Hypervisors provide single-tenant compute capacity.

This product is designed for workloads that require strict isolation, in compliance with specific licensing and regulatory requirements.

You can deploy and manage virtual machines on top of your dedicated hypervisor using the same tools and APIs as standard Compute Instances, while benefiting from single-tenant access to the underlying CPU, memory, and storage resources.

GPU-enabled dedicated hypervisors are also available in selected zones, allowing you to run GPU workloads with full host-level isolation.

When to use Dedicated Hypervisors

Dedicated Hypervisors are a good fit when you need:

• Full hardware isolation for security, compliance, or internal policies.
• License-bound workloads (e.g. software tied to physical cores or sockets).
• GPU workloads with strict isolation requirements.

Key characteristics

• Single-tenant infrastructure: the entire provisoned space on the hypervisor is reserved for your use.
• Flexible VM deployment: create and manage instances as on standard Compute.
• API and automation ready: fully integrated with Exoscale API, CLI, and IaC tools.
• Zone-dependent availability: hardware generations and GPU options vary per zone.

Available configurations

Dedicated Hypervisors are offered in a set of predefined configurations, combining GPU, CPU, memory, and local storage.

Standard Hypervisors - Balanced configurations for general purpose workloads. Storage Optimized Hypervisors - Configurations with significantly higher local storage capacity, and I/O performance, suitable for data intensive workloads. GPU Dedicated Hypervisors - Provide exclusive access to GPU resources with full host-level isolation. These configurations are designed for AI, machine learning, rendering, and high-performance workloads.

These configurations are designed to cover common workload profiles, from balanced compute to storage intensive use cases.

Availability depends on the hardware generation and zone of deployment. Our Technical sales team will work with you to define which hardeware best fits your use case.