Dell PowerEdge

Score8 out of 10

75 Reviews and Ratings

What is Dell PowerEdge?

Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers, offering a range of options from cost-efficient one-socket servers to four-socket servers designed to support intensive and critical data center workloads.

Categories & Use Cases

Arvind Kumar View profile

Senior Consultant - VMware & Infrastructure in Information Technology at Versetal Information Systems (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dell PowerEdge R series are very handy and easy to deploy rack-based servers. I am using Dell PowerEdge R710, R720 & R730 for more than 5 years. We use these rack servers as Hypervisor i.e., VMware ESXi as well as a backup server. Most of the virtual infrastructure is running on this series. You can use these rack servers as standalone ones, or like a hypervisor, etc.

Pros

Reliable memory feature is unique.
Easy in RAID configuration where we need OS and storage partitions.
PowerEdge iDRAC are way more easier to administer.

Cons

iDRAC interface can have some more shortcuts.
Getting DSAT report remotely becomes challenging sometimes.

Most Important Features

Virtualization compatibility.
Proactive alerts.

Return on Investment

Easier to manage by IT resources.
Perfect for standalone cases.

Alternatives Considered

HPE ProLiant DL

Kike Maldonado

Project Manager in Information Technology at Vueling (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Dell PowerEdge R series servers in our production environment. We have 6 of them in a vSAN cluster located in only one location. We made the decision of buying them helped by Dell Consulting services. They helped us to simulate our main load and to project how that load would best fit into their hardware.

Pros

Low part incident.
Fast hardware delivery.
Centralize management VM.

Cons

Not particularly found any worth mentioning.
Some issues were fixed by firmware updates.
They are very stable.

Most Important Features

Reliability.
Security for our production databases.
Fast customer support.

Return on Investment

We got ROI in just 6 months in, after implementing in.
We are saving 70% in electricity costs after migrating.
We have reduce management costs in 30% after migrating.

Alternatives Considered

Nutanix AOS and HPE ProLiant DL

Other Software Used

Nutanix AOS, Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery, VMware vCenter Server

Sudipta Banerjee

Product Manager in Information Technology at Corporate Infotech Private Limited (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Dell PowerEdge R series Servers in our organization to support multiple Application platforms that runs on individual physical machines. The Product ranges offered supports ecosystems which suits our budget. We have even created excellency centre in our organization which runs multiple work loads requiring variety of physical configurations. Hence recommend Dell PowerEdge R Servers

Pros

Supports both Legacy and latest Work Loads
Support multiple Virtualization Platforms
Require very less management
Easy BIOS set up
Offer Single GUI to monitor multiple machines
Susceptible to tough DC environment

Cons

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

Most Important Features

We can access your servers anywhere, anytime from your mobile device with the Dell EMC Open Manage Mobile App.
we can proactively resolve issues w by leveraging technology from Pro Support Plus and Support Assist
Support multiple Work loads

Return on Investment

Reduced cost of management has overall impact on Manpower
Reduced Space consumption had an impact of cooling effect and electricity consumption
Single window management and installation even remotely reduced the operational cost exponentially
Overall ROI has been approximate 53%

Alternatives Considered

HPE ProLiant DL, Cisco UCS Series and Lenovo ThinkSystem SR Series

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, VMware Cloud Foundation, Nutanix AOS

Dmitry Malafeev

Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Drake Australia (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

PowerEdge R really well work for small/med hosting servers.
MS SQL DBs are running well for such type of hardware.
Dedicated backup servers are performing well on Dell servers.

Cons

DRAC interface should be better designed to improve usability of management.
Raid controllers sometimes have an issue with non-Dell disks.
There is room to improve drivers for server support.

Return on Investment

It is balanced impact on ROI, the price of maintaining them a little bit high.
I like those servers because they are easy to mange.
Reliability of the servers is good.

Alternatives Considered

HPE ProLiant DL and Lenovo ThinkServer RS Series

Usability

Other Software Used

HPE ProLiant ML, HPE ProLiant MicroServer, VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Craig West

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Psychwest, Clinical & Forensic Psychology, Inc. (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Solid performance.
Few reboots.
Few maintenance issues.

Cons

Interface could be improved upon.
Better IOPS, i.e. the disc speed. That is the main limitation for scaling up the number of users.
Increase GPU's and benchmarking.

Return on Investment

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.