Now that all offerings have been defined, we can go one step ahead: the sizing of the environment.
As you know already, Azure Stack is not just a software solution; it will be delivered as an integrated system. This means that it consists of hardware and the appropriate software on top. There are numerous reasons for that. If you go directly with the Public Cloud Azure offering, you do not have to care about the underlying hardware. As Azure Stack is nothing more than bringing Azure to your data center, this is simply the same. For general availability, we will have the following OEMs that offer Azure Stack:
- Dell EMC
- HP Enterprise
- Lenovo
- After GA, additional hardware vendors (like Cisco and others) will soon join. Their offerings nearly look the same; only some minor things such as disk size will be different.
This integrated system is, to be honest, a hyper-converged system, which means that Hyper-V nodes and storage nodes are the same physical hardware. It does not have dedicated...