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What is Dell PowerEdge R?
Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
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Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 10.
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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February 03, 2022
Dell PowerEdge R series: Our experience in a few words
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.
- Low part incident.
- Fast hardware delivery.
- Centralize management VM.
- Not particularly found any worth mentioning.
- Some issues were fixed by firmware updates.
- They are very stable.
September 22, 2020
Great Flexible Stable Server
We use Dell PowerEdge R servers as VMWare ESXi hosts to power all of our applications. From Production/UAT to Development and QA they are running on Power Edge servers. They provide us an affordable and stable hardware platform with enterprise grade service and support that's available when we need it.
- Stable.
- Good service and support.
- Enterprise grade.
- Scalable.
- Flexible.
- Firmware Update Process could be improved.
September 18, 2020
Incredible Reliability and Performance
This server is being utilized for our Active Directory in 2 different sites. We are using R330 and R340 1U Rack. We required a simple, cost effective and slim profile server on top of our existing hyperconverged environment. For some reason we still believe that a physical AD is necessary.
- Reliable
- Ease of use
- Firmware update is a breeze.
- Admin management is easy.
- This server should last you a good 7-8 years.
- Intuitiveness of the web interface
- 1-click update (similar to what Nutanix has) for firmware
- Mobile management
September 18, 2020
Solid product with bulletproof support
We use Dell PowerEdge R for production, development, and testing in virtual environments. Each environment hosts applications from Databases, Web Servers to BI, and CRM applications on different Operating Systems and containers.
- Amazing support, and we can easily find replacement parts & great documentation.
- Good performance
- Great compatibility with virtualization solutions
- The product can be expensive for small business.
- Sometimes the replacement parts take too much time to arrive.
- The product lifecycle could be longer.
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.
September 12, 2020
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers
We deploy our Dell PowerEdge servers company wide. They support all aspects of the company; especially as virtualization constantly evolves bringing in newer opportunities. It addresses many issues but the most valuable is demoing different software products or product testing before it is deployed throughout the company. It acts as a lab environment as well as supporting production infrastructure.
- Supports ESXi extremely well.
- Easy to find firmware updates.
- Ease of use and reliability.
- IDSDM modules seem to have a high failure rate.
We currently have two Dell PowerEdge R devices running as EXHost servers for our VMware network. We have our load of virtual servers split between the two host devices, with a NetApp FAS2200 device on the backend housing all of the virtual files. We're running 128GB RAM on each device with 200GB local storage for additional failover and OS management. This has been our backbone for the last 7 years.
- Let me say -- stability, that's the key. Foundation is everything, and these servers are bedrock.
- Uptime -- I reboot twice per year, and I probably don't need to do that.
- Firmware updates -- Dell has done a good job over the years keeping these devices up to date.
- Easy maintenance + easy configuration -- mostly set it and forget it.
- The web interface is definitely lacking. I'm sure in the newer models this has been improved.
- I'd like VMWare to have greater controls over these servers -- that would simplify management.