@Steffen Hornung Note that in the above document, Nutanix claims a limit of 16 nodes supported under AWS.  Supported node scalability is determined by what the vendor or the underlying software maintains as limits. For example, as you note above, VMWare does not support a…

@Steffen Hornung I am not aware of a major provider (HPE, Cisco, IBM, Nutanix, Dell/VxRail) without a 32 node limit on their HCI implementations.  Love to be shown wrong.  You just sent me an outdated Nutanix list of their limitations.  When they were integrating hardware…

The key differences are scale, complexity and ease of use/management.   Converged systems are more complex, assembled from multiple vendors using different management tools which allow systems to scale tremendously (Hundreds of servers and Multiple Peta-Bytes of Storage…

As with any engineered solution, it depends on your needs.   However, the bottom line is that for their target markets Dell EMC Unity will generally have a better price at parity performance over IBM's FlashSystem.   Both are focused on All-Flash arrays and Dell EMC Unity is…

While both systems do a very good job within the nodal limits for scaling a compute environment - it is the networking layer that has the most impact on GPU sharing across a cluster.  From a practical perspective, VxRail nodes will typically offer a discount over native…