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Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
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Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
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The most common users of Dell PowerEdge R are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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The Dell PowerEdge R series servers have proven to be versatile and reliable solutions for various use cases in production environments. With their ability to form vSAN clusters, these servers are commonly deployed as standalone servers or hypervisors. Customers have reported that the Dell PowerEdge R series servers are easy to deploy and highly customizable, offering a budget-friendly hardware fit for different industries.
One of the main use cases for these servers is running demanding business applications such as databases, ERP systems, business intelligence tools, and MS Exchange. Additionally, they are utilized in small offices, medical and dental offices, where they centralize files, establish file sharing domains, and serve as backup servers. The Dell PowerEdge R series servers are also commonly used for virtualization purposes, supporting various operating systems and containers. Their reliability, competitive pricing, and high uptime make them suitable choices for web and email servers.
Furthermore, these servers have been deployed for software product testing and demoing company-wide due to their support for virtualization solutions. They have also found applications in building compute platforms, deploying security and networking applications, and managing customer data center infrastructure. In addition to their primary storage and SQL server functions, customers appreciate the stability and enterprise-grade service and support provided by Dell PowerEdge R series servers.
Overall, the Dell PowerEdge R series servers offer a range of use cases across different industries. Their flexibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness make them valuable assets for businesses seeking stability and efficiency in their IT infrastructure.
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October 11, 2020
Dell PowerEdge R - very high performance and good ROI
We use DellPower Edge R rack server for our projects and our customers for building compute platforms like standalone servers, virtualized rack servers, building private cloud top of the power edge rack server stacks. We deploy various security and networking applications and platforms on the dell power edge rack servers. We use these products for our own projects as well as resell, build and manage customer data center infrastructure build on the Dell PowerEdge R. These servers have great performance, cost and are energy-efficient.
- Dell PowerEdge R supports almost all the leading virtualization solutions.
- Dell PowerEdge R supports almost the entire range of the operating systems supported on x86 platform.
- Dell PowerEdge R servers are very cost competitive and can support long term.
- Highly efficient and performative.
- Support of Dell PowerEdge R servers from entry-level to top-level for higher storage inside, like DellPowerEdge Rack 740xd.
- Good return on the investment, much lower upfront cost.
- Highly efficient for operations and business applications, [and provides] good saving on operational costs.
Dell PowerEdge R rack servers support almost the entire range of the applications and hardware ecosystems of IT OEMs. Provides higher throughput, energy efficiency, high performance at a much lower cost compared to various other leading solutions. The support ecosystem of the Dell PowerEdge R is very good and fewer problems occur once installed.
September 26, 2020
Best in class for pricing, reliability and support
Our organization has standardized on Dell PowerEdge servers for years and have had a generally positive experience. It offers the best pricing, support, and technology available without our region. The systems are also generally reliable, and the robust management tools have streamlined routine maintenance and monitoring within the local IT department.
- Support is best-in-class
- Pricing is competitive
- Reliability has been generally good.
- Technology and management tools has been impressive.
- Pricing for warranty extensions could be improved.
- Support for older/obsolete hardware could be improved.
- Lower maintenance costs and effort.
- Improved reliability/lower downtime.
- Lower total cost of ownership.
Support and pricing is significantly improved with our switch to Dell from HPE products.
September 15, 2020
Dell PowerEdge Server Review
We use Dell PowerEdge R servers at our client sites as physical hosts for running VMware ESX or Hyper-V Hypervisors. The organization's business critical applications within virtual machines (VMs) on the PowerEdge rack-mount servers. They are very powerful servers and can handle the most demanding business applications i.e. Databases, ERP, Business Intelligence, MS Exchange etc.
- Flexible CPU socket options i.e. 1 socket, 2 socket and 4 socket servers.
- The PowerEdge R portfolio includes servers for the branch (entry) to mid and enterprise servers for the datacentre to run most demanding workloads including HCI.
- Supports NVME drives for minimum latency.
- Sizing tools should updated and easily accessible.
- Offer higher scalability where you can scale up like with IBM Power Servers.
- Rock solid hardware.
- Responsive technical support.
- Various options, i.e. single, dual or quad socket machines.
- Very nice design and complements the data centre.
Dell PowerEdge servers are very solid and come with all the required management software and features, i.e. iDRAC provides a web interface and a command line interface that enables the server admins manage the server by performing a wide variety of tasks. Also, it should be noted that iDRAC is a piece of hardware that sits on the server motherboard that allows the server to be updated and manage Dell systems, even when the server is turned off. There are tons of information and forums discussing these servers online which makes troubleshooting easy.
August 30, 2016
Dell PowerEdge R - Solid rack mount server
We exclusively run these servers in all our supported environments. We used to use them as physical servers and now they are all set up as ESXi hosts. They are usually set up with 8 locally attached hard drives that serve as the data stores for ESXi.
- Price vs. Performance. We run these servers for our customers with lower budgets. $6500 will get you a work horse capable of running at least 6 more VM guests.
- Highly configurable to suit your enviroment.
- Efficient on power. When replacing older servers, we typically see power consumption drop dramatically.
- Costs can be prohibitive for very small companies.
- Must purchase ProSupport to get enterprise level support.
- Less power consumption - Smaller UPS needed, increased runtime
- More computing power - Depending on your configuration, you can consolidate multiple servers to run on these
- More storage options
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.