Cisco UCS X-Series vs. Dell PowerEdge R

I have experienced great services from this platform in both cloud and on-premise. It has streamlined technology in all our cloud servers providing operational centre for any kind of data. It has enhanced effective networking program that controls workflows in the entire organization. The modular system gives predictive insights that helps us to prepare for future and avoid any risks that can lead to drawback.

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We chose Dell PowerEdge R series because we need to consolidate a lot of physical load into a smaller number of nodes. Their hardware configuration, specifically for vSAN helps us achieve a high-density load in a very low number of physical servers. On top of that, they have lots of expansion ports, so we can increase our load internally on each other with simple upgrades.

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• Cisco Provide the Centralized management to collect all information.
• Easy User Interface to use and execute the daily routine operation.
• Performance and stability are much better.

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• Good price - Compared to other vendors’ server platforms. In our scenario (virtualization) we found out PowerEdge offers the best price/vCPU and RAM ratio.
• Customizable - We were able to select optimal memory/disk capacity for our use case. Other platform's minimum requirements were above our needs, hence needlessly expensive.
• Good warranty and service - Our project did not involve creating a big cluster with a lot of spare capacity, so the next business day warranty came handy.

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• Full featured Intersight
• 1 slot, 4 socket blades.
• OS deployment without a license

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• Getting DSAT report remotely does becomes a challenge sometimes
• Server rebooting becomes an issue, it does not starts up easily
• Server heats up sometimes a lot, emitting lot of noice

It is the best server in the market.

The Dell PowerEdge R range is just intuitive when you have skills engineers managing them in-house, although even with new members of staff on the team, the learning curve is very low providing they have previous general service hardware management experience. From the specification through to the management of this range, the usability is excellent.

We consider Dell's support to be best-in-class compared to other solutions and is also reasonably priced. Their SLA targets have almost always been met, except for minor occasions that have had extenuating circumstances. The service staff is also professional and thorough. Overall, we are very satisfied with the level of support we receive.

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Installation was easy.

There are good use cases for both technologies, and each will have its place, UCS X-Series is good when looking at additional or external Storage solutions, and scalable computing performance in a compact form factor. Cisco HX is good for incorporating Compute and Storage in single ease of use form factor.

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PowerEdge R servers was selected by CIO. I think the servers have lots of benefits for our company and are well placed on our projects. In most business cases they are working good and our management have a clear vision to upgrade them to the same brand with better specs. Hope to see this upgrade in close future.

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• Positive impacts for building VM based workloads
• Great impacts for building the next genration of apps running in microservices
• Positive impacts in management and extensibility

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• From the perspective of physical server consolidations, when servers spread across multiple branch and remote offices are gathered into a central data center, this simplification process provides ROI in several ways. One, the configuration control, restriction of server access.
• Reduce complexity and enable greater standardization of hardware purchases, which lowers costs.
• Increased security of the move are important.
• The costs of moves, add-ins, and changes are reduced, as well as the costs of travel time and maintenance.
• Migrating legacy operating systems to a newer version via rehosting brings similar ROI benefits when it comes to server consolidation.

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