Dell PowerEdge C vs. Supermicro SuperBlade

An excellent warranty and excellent technical assistance can be expected from the PowerEdge C Series, which comes from a well-known brand with a long track record in the market. Scalability, physical space optimization and performance and dependability for handling sensitive and vital data like databases and ERP systems that are fairly sophisticated are just some of the benefits we get from Dell gear, which saves us resources and energy by up to 40%.

Supermicro may be well suited if what you will be deploying on the servers is supported, because if you don't, you may have no support at all. In our case, we have had some hardware problems where the support is not efficient compared to other experiences we had (HP, DELL). On the other hand, their servers price is quite good, so it's a win win if you are looking for better prices than other vendors.

Incentivized

• Adaptation to different workloads and especially to critical loads that need a lot of processing.
• Great for virtualization of critical services.
• Minimize physical space occupying only 1U.
• Easy management.
• High availability of processor, storage space, memory and font.

Incentivized

• Good IPMI management, detailed information
• Their Redfish API is also a good tool to configure/retrieve information from the servers, good for scalability
• Documentation Online for new updates is up to date (BIOS/FW)

Incentivized

• The additional C series versions are more costly than the basic one
• I haven't seen any downtime in my system's operation
• All of the functionalities have been working as expected

• Their support could be better, it is not the fastest we've got in touch with
• We have seen strange behaviour on some of their servers, it's better to check if the OS you will be running is supported on their support matrix first

Incentivized

My experience with the support was not that good, it always takes a lot of time to get somewhere when raising a support case. I gave it a 6 because I think they have room for improvement here, It could be good if they would act quicker and send in replacements for faulty hardware.

Incentivized

When it comes to multitasking networking and storage, I've always found Dell PowerEdge C to be the most effective solution. A network center that can service the whole business with capacity for future expansion is ideally suited for this device. The ability to consolidate data into a single storage system has reduced workloads. Using this platform is simple and the customer support team is constantly available.

The supermicro superblade servers are performing really well on our infrastructure, we are running a broad set of applications: voip, JAVA, linux, windows, hypervisors, etc. They are easy to install and configure and the price is a winning situation. On the other hand, The support is not so good, HP and DELL are stronger in this point. If you get any failures on your systems, they will replace them immediately, but supermicro will ask for a lot of information on the case before handing out replacement hardware, which makes it slow.

Incentivized

• Return on investment in the medium term.
• Easier to extend new services by implementing new features on demand.
• Optimized technical support.

Incentivized

• Their price has allowed us to save money when buying servers on bulk

Incentivized