Many critical business applications are moving into a consolidated compute, network, and storage environment. Through FlexPod for Vmware, every component of a traditional SharePoint 2010 Enterprise deployment is reduced.

Management integration and complexity is simplified, while maintaining SharePoint 2010 design and implementation options. Administration is unified, while process separation can be adequately controlled and monitored.

This Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise on FlexPod for VMware validated design guide provides a functional review and analysis for application deployment within the Cisco Unified network architecture.

Validation test areas include scalability, optimization, availability, and load balancing of a VMware virtualized SharePoint 2010 environment with a 50,000 user maximum workload scenario. Enterprise use cases were simulated across Microsoft SharePoint 2010 features.