These validated architectures, built on the Cisco® and NetApp® FlexPod® data center platform, have undergone thousands of hours of lab testing and are documented in  step-by-step best practices guides:

• VMware® vSphere ™ built on FlexPod – includes VMware vSphere, vCenter™, Cisco UCS and Nexus, and NetApp FAS data storage components for virtualized environments
• Microsoft® Applications built on FlexPod – based on Microsoft SharePoint ® 2010, Microsoft Exchange 2010, Cisco compute and networking, NetApp storage, and VMware virtualization
• FlexPod with Microsoft® Private Cloud – includes Microsoft Hyper-V®, Cisco UCS and Nexus, and NetApp FAS data storage components for virtualized environments
  
• SAP® Applications built on FlexPod – accelerates SAP lifecycle management with secure, integrated data protection across the entire stack
• Oracle® RAC on FlexPod validated with VMware – for virtualizing business-critical applications.
• Citrix® XenDesktop built on FlexPod – easy-to-deploy VDI solution that accommodates almost any hypervisor
• FlexPod with Microsoft® Private Cloud with Citrix® XenDesktop – uses Cisco UCS, Microsoft Hyper-V, and NetApp Storage
  

• Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT) capabilities to create a service-oriented infrastructure
• Entry-level FlexPod solution – for specific workloads and a more manageable smaller-scale IT infrastructure
  
• RedHat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) built on FlexPod – a prevalidated solution with the RHEL operating system and add-on options such as scale file system, high availability, and resilient storage

Learn more about FlexPod validated designs at the Cisco DesignZone website.