​Build and manage scalable SharePoint farms to provide for the infrastructure to support collaboration and content management. SharePoint architects can create a deployment model that is reliable and scalable, without introducing unnecessary costs or over-architecting the environment. Microsoft Virtualization technologies provide not only near native performance but also an on-ramp to the private cloud and at one-third the cost of VMware on average.

​With Microsoft System Center, you can manage both your physical and virtual SharePoint environments through a single pane of glass, giving you deployment flexibility while maintaining deep knowledge of the application and services with management packs.  SharePoint administrators can manage multiple virtual hosts, quickly provision SharePoint servers and farms, migrate physical servers to virtual ones, and perform other key management processes.

​Microsoft fully supports SharePoint Server 2010 when deployed in a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment. Benefit from single vendor licensing, comprehensive guidance, and best practices for deploying and managing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 virtualized from Microsoft.