The Nutanix vs VMware vs Hyper-V decision in 2026 looks nothing like it did three years ago. The virtualization market has experienced a seismic shift. For fifteen years, the answer to “Which hypervisor should we use?” was almost automatically “VMware vSphere.” It was the default, the gold standard, the safe bet. Then came Broadcom. Today,…
Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box sizing has been one of the most frustrating gaps in on-prem AI planning. For the past year, designing AI workloads on-premises has felt like the Wild West — rough spreadsheets, t-shirt sizes, and guesswork on inference overhead. That changed with Sizer 6.0.94, released December 2025. The version number looks incremental. The capability jump…
The Post-Broadcom Reality: Keeping the SAN Nutanix compute only nodes with external storage represent a fundamental shift in how enterprises can exit VMware without abandoning their existing storage investments. The premise of Hyperconverged Infrastructure was to kill the Storage Area Network in favor of distributed, direct-attached storage — one vendor, one platform, one throat to…
The Hyper-V vs Nutanix AHV sizing decision is where marketing slides crash into operational reality. For a Solution Engineer or Infrastructure Architect, the first customer Proof of Concept is the moment that distinction becomes expensive. The most common reason for early PoC performance failures is not bad software — it is bad math. When evaluating…
The Broadcom Context You Cannot Ignore Demoing Nutanix AOS vs VMware vSphere in 2026 is not the same conversation it was in 2022. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware — and the subsequent licensing restructuring, perpetual license elimination, and partner program consolidation — has changed the context of every bake-off. Engineers who were evaluating these platforms purely…
