Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) consist of systems and solutions that are designed, tested, and documented to facilitate and improve customer deployments. These designs incorporate a wide range of technologies and products into a portfolio of solutions that have been developed to address the business needs of customers. Cisco and NetApp have partnered to deliver FlexPod, which serves as the foundation for a variety of workloads, and deliver architectural designs that are robust, efficient, and scalable to address customer requirements. A FlexPod solution is a validated approach for deploying Cisco and NetApp technologies and products to build shared private and public cloud infrastructure.