HPE ProLiant DL is a rack server, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
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Dell PowerEdge R
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Dell PowerEdge R
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Chose Dell PowerEdge R
Dell has an 8GB RAID card, while the competition has only a 4GB RAID card. Value for money with a good Return on Investment. Good service during the warranty period and post-warranty. The failure rate is less for Dell than when compared to HPE. Hence has high uptime. Dell is …
Better Management, Better ROI, Better Supply Chain System ensures timely delivery even in recent times where Supply Chain has become a big issue. Also ensuring timely project completion leading to chain effect like customer able to utilize their budget within timelines and we …
Whilst Dell & HP servers are pretty much the same commodity internals, we find equivalent spec Dell servers are almost always lower both initial purchase and ongoing support and maintenance. The software tools provided between HP and Dell are pretty much equivalent.
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Chose Dell PowerEdge R
Support and pricing is significantly improved with our switch to Dell from HPE products.
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 …
We found Dell an easier company to work with than HPE overall since Dell allows you to purchase directly from them where HPE requires you to use a reseller. The PowerEdge R servers came in at a lower cost than a comparability speced HPE ProLaint DL. Both servers seemed …
These are very comparable products. I cannot speak to the current line of HP servers, but the older ones we replace with the Dell servers are typically less efficient.
Better engineered and longer, more consistent production cycles. A G10 is a G10, even 3 years later. Many other brands make engineering changes constantly and the same model purchased a couple years apart use different drivers, different firmware, different parts. W can buy …
HPE ProLiant DLs are nice servers. They provide good performance, have scalability potential, are very reliable, and fit our expectations. Service support is high quality. In most cases, I prefer to buy HPE servers again and keep them as long as possible because they provide …
In my personal opinion, Proliant DL is much better than comparable hardware from other manufacturers. Although the price tag might (or might not be higher) you get what you pay for. The couple times we decided to invest in comparable hardware from two other manufacturers, it …
I came from a Dell shop to an HPE shop. The PowerEdge series are good systems but I was never a fan of the iDRAC remote management component. I realize that this is subjective, but I also feel like firmware updates were more painful with Dell's servers. UEFI has leveled this …
Dell PowerEdge R and HPE ProLiant DL lines of rack servers designed to handle various and complex workloads. They are directly competing solutions and are frequently compared with each other and the popular IBM Power series, including the IBM POWER9. HPE offers the ProLiant DL line of rack servers to support software-defined data centers, and describes their product line as flexible but generally dense and compact, with options to support a storage-intensive workload. The Dell PowerEdge R includes one-socket servers priced for small business, two-socket servers for scale-out or virtualization, or four-socket servers for data-intensive workloads and dense virtualization. Both lines of rack servers are deployed at companies of all sizes, reflecting their diverse product portfolio with options catering to enterprises, and midsize or smaller companies also.
Features
Users describe a number of reasons to deploy either the HPE ProLiant DL or the Dell PowerEdge R in a data center. Both product lines present overall strong options for core capabilities, and both are as versatile and scalable, as advertised.
But users of the HPE ProLiant DL also enjoy the centralized remote management experience derived from HPE’s iLO (for “Integrated Lights-Out”) embedded management system available with these servers. Notably, users report satisfaction with HPE’s with the device’s reliability and longevity, coupled with HPE’s customer support for the ProLiant DL, which together provide an excellent and low maintenance device lifecycle.
The Dell PowerEdge R presents a reliable solution for the cost-constrained; its SMB level base options are fairly priced overall and present a decent option for small branch offices, and generally, the product line presents a strong value all the way up when looking at the price for vCPU or RAM. Its fans tout its superiority for virtualization, particularly its support for VMware ESXi. Also, PowerEdge R servers are known to last for a long time, often surviving well beyond the warranty, with easy to find and execute firmware updates.
Limitations
There are just few limitations to the PowerEdge R and the ProLiant DL, but some complaints are:
Opposite PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant DL driver firmware updates are described as cumbersome. On the hardware side, there are minor complaints about ProLiant processor speed, form factor, and a few other scattered complaints that the devices themselves (e.g. network ports lacking indicators, etc) indicate the solution is not quite as user friendly as some would like them to be.
Dell support for the PowerEdge R does not get the same favorable feedback that HPE support does, and besides complaints of (slightly) inferior support, users complain about updates throughout the support lifecycle taking quite a while, with certain needed updates coming in far too slowly. Remote management of the PowerEdge R is not the equal of the ProLiant.
Pricing
Dell PowerEdge R pricing starts at $560 and ranges to just under $1700 for the one-socket servers. Two-socket PowerEdge R servers range from $1060 to $2370, and higher end four-socket servers range from about $16,000 to just under $17800.
HPE ProLiant DL servers range from about $550 to about $1600 for various models of the DL20 and DL180, and for DL360 and DL380 servers from about $1600 to $16000. The higher-end DL580 is available from about $14500 at the entry-level to about $46000.
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.
It's well suited for a VMWare Esxi cluster setup. You are guaranteed to have the same CPU chipset to ensure the servers on the cluster are compatible with each other. We've had to stagger the purchase of systems by six months and have had compatibility issues. It's also well suited for I/O such as MS SQL or Oracle databases, Exchange servers, domain controllers. Pretty much any server setup will work with no issues on the HPE Proliant DL line. It's less appropriate as a NAS server, we had purchased one that ran on Windows Storage. Since it was more or less running Windows as a single controller, we had issues where it has locked up and caused an outage.
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.
iLO Advanced - I feel like this is just a money grab. Give me the remote features, at least the remote console, with the purchase. I'd be OK with paying for the advanced license for more centralized functionality, but straight remote sessions? That should just be there.
Software entitlements and online interaction are a little wanting. This isn't the hardware per se, but enterprise products are often heavily tied to online services and tools and that could be a lot better.
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 have been using these servers for many years now and we have used different generations of this product line. We have never faced a catastrophic issue using these and even the smaller issues that we have faced have been dealt with by the technical support team of HP. They have been a reliable partner in our data center.
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.
Overall, HPE support meets our requirements. They offer handy 24x7 phone support with clear case resolution interface. Engineers from HPE know their hardware and software. They are polite and help to find quick solutions for their customers. We don't need to prioritize our service requests to account managers to find how to fix or improve our service support.
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.
I've used Dell poweredge servers and they were great too, but I found remotely deploying HPE hardware was significantly easier and faster. One thing I love about HPE is when i got to deploy an OS remotely via iLO I can utilize the virtual media URL as opposed to mounting an iso. these eliminates the SSL overhead and the OS can be deployed in under an hour. Mounting an ISO has proven reliable but due to the SSL overhead it can take hours. In addition i found im able to register my HPE hardware with HPE and they provide me a clean IT dashboard of all of my hardware and they give me alerts as to expiring support coverage, if a server is down or reporting an error. its a very solid and reliable solution all around.
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.
Allowed us to move forward with running web-based applications and to scale them as needed.
The lack of future driver support has made it difficult to consider upgrades, we may need to go with more expensive hardware in the future to be able to maintain upgrades.
While we have not realized all the business growth benefits we expected from this investment, we have had much more flexibility and options when we need to change our environment to meet the business needs.
